I think youre doing great too.. Alot of life and movement and filled with energy and as you develop practice line efficiency. Drawing is more thinking than actual drawing but thats comes with time. Just keep going

Nice! - I think it could be useful to do some where you simplify the apes into a few gesture lines. It will help you focus on what's essential for the action. - I would try to get more rhythm into the drawings. Look for how a gestural curve going one way flows into a gestural curve going the other way, creating a back 'n' forth rhythm. Like Glenn Vilppu describes it in the beginning of this video Drawing Demo by Glenn Vilppu. Being aware of rhythm can also help you design the contours with more gesture. You tend to draw symmetrical contours. Asymmetrical contours carry the flow better. Check out the first 2 minutes of this video for an explanation How to Draw Dynamic Shapes – FORCE Series Part 3 Hope this helps :)

Good silhouettes but generally speaking you want to draw through the form.. I would rather see you capture the rhythms of the movement as wire armatures then worry about perfect silhouettes. you need to learn and acquire knowledge to draw poses out of your head- not copy what you see. Analyze and understand- dont regurgitate

Loose and rough- great- lets see more drawing from the inside out at this stage. I see a lack of understanding of the internal structure. Think of the arm in its skeleton form not its flesh silhouette . So more wire armature rhythms and then build volumes and details on top of that. Great energy though

Messy is okay when its all about learning. Youre not here to make pretty drawings but to learn and understand how to create poses on your own. Draw from the inside out- skeleton to superficial forms. Not the actual bones but think of how the skeletal structure when the monkey is hanging. In one to two lines draw the rhythmic bend and flow then build volumes on top of that.

Some nice natural silhouettes however youre losing dimension by not drawing through the form- get some overlaps, hooks and communicate the volume of the structure thats actually in these poses.

Theses are great and I can see improvement when reviewing the past few posts! Some of the messier ones are my favorites. Keep it up!

This is a great approach. Another way to see it draw verbs not nouns. As in draw an action not that subject. Draw the subject/characters story, not their physical presence. I would now get away form the heavy contour line around the entire silhouette. Mix and match line weights to help the eye follow the rhythms you capture.

Hi @David Colman, here are some more ape drawings from video. I applied the feedback you gave me here https://www.proko.com/s/pRX2, about thinking more before each stroke, starting with image 2. I feel like it really improved my drawings. Thanks!

Yeah, me too ì have brain locks !

Try drawing with pen first, I see you did them in pencil and then drew over it. Its only going to stiffen up. Dont worry about making it look like the ape, monkey etc- be focused on the action and energy of the subject- not the traits

WOW JEff...some great work ...Youre really pushing the poses and I can feel the stretching,.the weight of the ape sitting. I love your head in the lower left- Fantastic silhouette and has character. Can you draw some more from your imagination? I expect to see some great work....show me

good work but dont worry about making it look like the subject in silhouette. nice rhythms on the gorilla but its still flat and contour heavy. Get messy- at least think of the appendages as rhythmic rubber bands that bend and stretch and intertwine with one another.

Looking at your drawings again, i really like how volumetric many of your video-drawings are, that is something, that i try to improve in my own videodrawings right now. I think it might be a good next step to give more consideration to the actual bones and muscles, like shoulder muscles instead of just a ball, biceps and triceps instead of a a tube. But as i said i think your studies are great as they are, it would just be a way to practice anatomy while studying poses.

Great job! Thanks for sharing. The best thing to say is keep at it and stretch your daily drawing mileage. It is hard to say what to work on when I do not feel adequate in my own drawings. Though saying nothing is not very helpful and when I try to form words to someone else I know now that I have to hold myself accountable and do the same. Good job in keeping loose. Some of the poses seem to be similar so I would recommend in being bold and stepping even further out of the comfort zone. This may be drawing the movement before or the movement after. I wouldn't worry too much about proportions as it is hard to juggle everything right now. Though in the areas that make you feel uncomfortable is something that you can study further and go back to the skeleton and muscles. The still gorilla video is difficult to draw from as it is almost a photograph and the urgency of drawing from life is lost. Though is a great exercise in finding the subtle details.

These are nicely done. You have some good rhythms but draw thru the forms more- think about and show whats going on the other side of the viewers perspective. Dont be so concerned with clean silhouettes right now. A clear read is important but finding the energy will be hindered if too focus on the perfectly proportioned silhouette and contour.