Quicksketch Assignment Examples - 2 Minute Poses
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Two examples of last week's lesson on gesture. 2 minute gesture quicksketch demonstrations.
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Demonstrations of 2 minute gesture quicksketch.
In the first image; I tried to the "Quick Draw" challenge on Proko.com. It did not turn out well.
In the second image; the two on top are the gestures I tried on my own. The two on the bottom are the ones I followed along with.
I welcome all criticism, just please keep it positive. Thank you!
Hello, here are my two minute gestures from the video. I would really appreciate feedback/ critique!
thank you.
Doing this on a timer humbled me pretty quickly when I was feeling okay about gesture from the drawing basics course. I almost started to feel comfortable doing them towards the end. Time to start doing them every day I guess.
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20d
Time really does fly, lol! I'd suggest making sure the line of action follows through the entire form of the subject you're drawing. In some of these, you have it and then it stops around the waist. Letting the line follow through will help with building the gesture around it and keeping the energy and flow. Nice work!!
I draw along with the video and used a ball pen, because my teacher in the painting school recommended it to me. I tend to use my rubber to much and with I put more thought in my lines.
I also try to draw the line with my whole arm. But it ks getting more complicated when I got to the right page on the right corner. I don't have any support there with the sketchbook because I often draw on my table easel to prevent neck pain.
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20d
Nice work identifying line of action in these!
Hi! These are a few sheets I did and I tried to focus on the motion because my comfort zone tends to be in fine details and contours. I know there are a few that I have overthought, causing some poses to be scratchy and stiff. I’d love to know if there is anything I can do differently!
I'm having trouble drawing hand and arm gestures. I don't know where to start with some references, so I'm drawing without a clue whether to start with the head or go straight to the body. I'm also having trouble determining the proportions between the head and the body. You can criticize my post because I'm stuck in progress.
I try to do the gesture sketches on a 2 minute timer, but even on a 3 minute timer it proofs a struggle. In any case, these are what I managed on my first few tries. I prefer 5 at a time due to my paper size. I think I would much prefer drawing them 1 on each page, but that means spending time on flipping the page on top of that already short timer - for me anyway 😅
Not sure how that “ask for help” button works yet, but hopefully you have some pointers for me that I can use!
Day 1anxious
Day 2: scared
Day 3: nervous
Day 4: looking forward to tomorrow!
I am starting to feel it, I’m improving. Little by little.
After the anatomy course, I've come back to the gesture course. Tried 2 minutes (sometimes more...) quicksketch. Your comments would be really welcome!!
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Hey Richard, I made some notes for you below! You expressed the overall gesture lines throughout these drawings very well. One thing I noticed as a common theme is that you could exaggerate the poses just a bit more without going too far with it. One way you could do this is to push the pinch & stretch of the torso. I did a couple of draw-overs below as an example.
Another thing to mention is the contours; overall you did a good job simplifying to CSI, but for example, the back of the arm in 006 could be represented by one C curve instead of the two c curves. It keeps the flow without the detail of the muscles, which would be necessary to include in a longer drawing but not so important for a quick drawing.
One last thing that may help you is to recall the gestural torso box assignment from the drawing basics course. You don't have much time to analyze the figure when you're doing quick poses; using the box is a quick way to simplify the shape and identify twists. For example, in 006, her shoulders are twisting slightly back to the left and her hips are facing forward. In my box, I exaggerated the pose even more to give her hips a slight twist back to the right using the box as a mental guide.
Hope you find this helpful. Again, really nice job here 👍
After a 30 sec session, these 2 min poses seem an eternity, like all the time in the world :)
Need to try something with these wild lines
I started drawing in 2020 and this course late 2021 and didn’t finish it. I have been drawing on and off since then, but this year I have gotten a lot more serious about art. I have almost finished this course!
Here is my progress from December 2021 to today. It’s not a super big difference, but I feel a lot more confident with these and doing gestures do not frustrate me as much as they used to lol.
Hopefully it can inspire you guys to keep going forward even though it can be mentally draining.
If anybody has critiques please say something! I want to improve.
My experience with drawing gestures:
The results are a bit inconsistent. Sometimes I nail the pose on the first try, and it looks pretty solid. But then I analyze it, decide I can improve something, redraw it—and it ends up worse. Probably because I focus too hard on that one detail I wanted to fix, and it messes with the overall flow.
Other times, it's the opposite: it doesn't work at first, but after the second or third try, I start to feel the pose and manage to sketch it out nicely.
I tried the 2 minute rhythm gesture exercise. I started on paper but ended doing it digitally to avoid wasting paper. It is really difficult for me to understand how to catch the rhythm, I was copying what Stan was doing on the demo video but couldn't apply that on the exercise with other pictures.
If someone can help me understand, or giving any advice on how to catch the rhythm or any critiques, it would be wonderful!
Thank you <3
