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Quicksketch Assignment Examples - 2 Minute Poses
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Demonstrations of 2 minute gesture quicksketch.
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hectormartinezdev
15h
2023-06-02: Practice I made yesterday after watching the video, and following along this one video today.
Jean-Nicolas Bouchard
2d
Hi, looking for some critique. Here are 2 minutes gestures sketches. Some have been detailed past 2 minutes for fun. I have also some of 30 seconds poses whom are more wireframe drawings. I am working on my flow lines and zigzag lines since a few days. I think I already have some improvements. Have been following Force Series as well. Let me know your comments! Thanks

hectormartinezdev
15h
The non detailed 30 seconds look great, it would be nice to have more of them, but I can see clearly what the poses are supposed to be! Keep up the good work!

ladyfae
5d
Here my 2 minutes poses, had to remind myself not to make everything perfect and just have fun with it.

hectormartinezdev
15h
Looking good for me! I feel that in some of those you drawed more contour than gesture. For example the pose that is holding both hands and rounding the back, from the neck to the knee could be a single line, the ass bumping breaks the motion for me. However, good work overall! Keep up the good work :)
yecai
1mo
Not timed. Before move on to new lessons, record the current level.

hectormartinezdev
15h
They look great! Very flowy lines :D Keep up the good work!
Jean-Nicolas Bouchard
5d
Nice
Chris W
1mo
Those look great. Can you give any tips? My poses still look extremely stiff. No idea what I'm doing wrong.
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cburdett26
1mo
04-21-23
I was a little distracted today, but I was able to get some drawing in; Not my best but, gotta start somewhere. Anyways, any feedback is always appreciated.
Thank You,
CB
Jean-Nicolas Bouchard
5d
I like your 3rd drawing best. It is the one with the most flow. Keep it up!

cburdett26
1mo
04-19-23
Please take a look, any feedback is appreciated! I'm really starting to see a difference in these! I started using some charcoal and I've seen some major improvements. Some sloppy lines here and there, but I really have been more deliberate in my line quality and just slowing down. Need to do more of this.
Thank You,
CB

kei_iketani
2mo
04/02/23 2minutes figure drawing

cburdett26
1mo
These are really good! I think Proko's video on line quality would help you! Good Luck!
Samuel Sanjaya
2mo
today's gesture drawing, i hope i can get some feedbacks and critiques.. thank you..

cburdett26
1mo
These are very clean! If I had one critique it would be some are too clean! some lines appear to be very straight, like the one in the top left corner. Try and make your figures look a little more cylindrical. Other than that I think the gestures are amazing! Keep it up!
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yash singh
2mo
A feedback would be helpful,thank you

cburdett26
1mo
I really like the movement in your drawings! I think really honing your proportions will take your drawings to the next level, but I think you have the hard part down! Keep it up!
2mo
Hi @yash singh, nice studies.
- I would practice finding the centerline running through the forms (watch the first minute of How to Draw Gesture). The contours of the figure will support and bend with this centerline. A main issue I see in your drawings is that the contours drawn aren't designed around the centerline; you have many bumps in the contour that hurt the flow.
- I would try to look more for rhythms in the pose; a line curving one way is followed by a curve going the other way. This back n forth rhythm leads the eye through the pose and helps with creating a feeling of movement. Glenn Vilppu explains it in the beginning of this video Drawing Demo by Glenn Vilppu. His process explanation at timestamp 21:00 is great too! Starting with a flow, then fleshing out with volumes.
You might also appreciate checking out Mike Mattesi's force drawing series
Improving Line Quality and Rhythm – FORCE Series Part 1
Drawing Gestural Forms – FORCE Series Part 2
How to Draw Dynamic Shapes – FORCE Series Part 3
- Have you heard about the Drawing Basics course? I think you would really enjoy taking it :) I think it will give you a broad and solid foundation.
Hope this helps :)

nusso
3mo
Things I've learned:
1 If I get the feeling behind the pose it's way easier to draw the gesture
2 Drawing gesture while also thinking about proportions is really difficult. I feel like my 30 second sketches end up being way more loose and capture the movement better since I don't think about proportion at all
Any critique is welcome as always.
GregoRy Ts
3mo
Nice flow in your linework

quitpayload
3mo
This has been kind of devastating for me as I've taken other courses on other sites, but never dabbled in gesture drawing. I feel like there's something I'm not getting, or do I just need to keep practicing?
One of my biggest issues is that on demonstrations the drawings look well proportioned, but all of mine, particularly those where the character is bending in an unusual way the body looks kind of horrifyingly misshapen.
Any advice for what I'm doing wrong/right? Ways to improve?
Also, I think the lines are really light, so apologies for that. I think I'll use a darker pencil in future.
Thanks.
colesdawg
3mo
consistency, consistency consistency! A lot of art colleges (at least here in the uk) don't really teach us this stuff, so proko is goodfor that. But consistency is what will drive you to the finish line.

nusso
3mo
Something that has helped me in keeping my proportions (sort of) right is to draw one big overarcing action line and then drawing two lines indicating the shoulderline and the waist. This roughly halves my action line (since leg length is about half the body length).

benjammin
3mo
Been practicing gestures every day. One of my main focuses was working on my line quality, less scratchy strokes and more tapered. The last two took more than 2 minutes each but I'm happy with the quality of those. Feedback welcome!

baboonx16
3mo
i did both 2 min and 30 secs , I have a hard time drawing smooth lines , and drawing shapes correctly . i would appreciate any feedback :)

naitsabes77
3mo
Hi there, I've doing these and added some volume what u think? I'd like any feedback from u

naitsabes77
4mo
I'm new into this, here some gesture drawings I did, how can I improve? I would like any feedback (sorry for the quality, my phone camera is kinda bad)
Dwight
4mo
Hello, my critique is to draw darker/take better pictures. Without zooming in, the paper looks blank and doesn't lend itself to comment without effort on our end.
From what I can see, they look pretty good, and I'd challenge you to do different times (I assume these are around 2 mins, so try 30 seconds, 5 mins?).

somegui
4mo
As you may already be able to tell, I am in need of serious improvement on my 2 minute gesture drawing, but I am not entirely sure what to change. If you can help, I would really appreciate it. Thanks!

Memori 0
3mo
Hi, these actually look fine and I'm sure you will improve over time with practice.
For now I would say work on line confidence, (pre) visualize where your line is gonna be and ghost it in before you actually put a line down. you'll end up with a few lines that look better instead of 10 lines that make it look messy.
caprissa
4mo
Hi! Last week I started practicing gesture drawings daily. The below are from my practice today, 1 min per pose. I would greatly appreciate any feedback - thanks a lot in advance! :)

Benjamin Green
4mo
These look quite good. Some look a bit stiff on the last page but I'm guessing those were your warmups. I see some of the same mistakes I have made from in the past, such as drawing lines to indicate the direction of the legs and arms before drawing a contour around the shapes. I think that what helped me improve in that regard was to focus on the rhythm as a whole instead of trying to make construction lines to indicate direction. I have seen other artists use very blunt drawing tools such as a brush or marker to force them to draw the gesture and not to focus on reproducing the lines and what you see in the reference too much. When you see it like this, the whole limb becomes an 'I', 'S', or 'C' shape. Reduce everything to those 3 shapes.
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Muhammad Jacobs
4mo
I tried to study angles by using only Straight lines, as suggested by lovelifedrawing. Didn't really go as expected, I either need to dramatically reduce the amount of lines or find way more dynamic poses for this exercise.
Also attached, a quick 2 minute practice session

Grace Mounce
4mo
In that first page of gestures, I can really see the form. You are good at this!
herbicidal
4mo
A mixture of 30 second and 2 minute poses; any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Grace Mounce
4mo
Hi @herbicidal , these are looking great! Nice job on proportions! On the last page of 2-minute poses, I notice something in these drawings that I see a lot in my own--when I go to draw a line, say the outside edge of a calf, I draw the line several times in order to get it just right. But I think this causes the drawing to look a little too messy; and for me, it wastes part of the precious 2 minutes. May I suggest trying to draw a line and "commit" to it, even if it isn't perfect. May I also recommend curving the neck more to follow the gesture of the rest of the body. This is just my two cents. But otherwise, nice work--it looks like you're really capturing those long curvy gesture lines!
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Heather Houston
5mo
The struggle is real. Anyone else?

John Harper
6d
1/2 of my family hates me because I see naked people. The other half understands. That's where the struggle is for me. I don't know if I'll ever overcome their shameful attitude... see how I flipped that?

somegui
4mo
I feel your pain. It is definitely uncomfortable, especially if you have never been exposed to this sort of thing.

John Harper
5mo
Ha!
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