Figure Drawing Fundamentals

First congrats for starting to draw again! What i first can see is that you try to find the contours with too many lines at a time. I also still have problems with scratchy lines and have to be really patient while drawing. -try to use less lines, or practice to build up the lines on top of each other instead of next to each other - maybe warm up with some more beans before drawing figures and rewatch how proko is drawing. Hes planning every single stroke really well and sometimes you can see him ghosting the lines in the air befor he puts the pencil on the paper - you should check out his latest free videos on YT about drawing basics and line quality. I think you can benifit from it ! keep going and be patient with yourself. You will see that your lines will get better with regular practice. I swear.

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These figure drawings are quite well done. I see that you understand the movement of those references, but I can also see that in the last two pictures, you're getting a lot of lumps, and I understand your trying to draw the musculature, but we aren't there yet. It just takes you to get that clean line of movement, so I would recommend not just using sci as small but trying to draw them bigger for example, use the s curve as the whole body instead of drawing the bumps. It's a sense of feeling if that makes sense, but besides that, you got it. Keep up the great work

Not bad, one thing I notice is you've got some hairy lines. Try to create a single pencil stroke when you're doing the gesture studies.

I think you should start with free hand stroke to get clear lines ,for the length time ig your thinking a lot don't rush things , first think how you gonna approch it and then do it ,like proko said "it's ok to study figure before starting "

I think you just go at your own pace. I've spent a few weeks on the gesture portion. I broke down my time like this: For each video - 1 session where I watch first and draw after 1 session for drawing before watching each gesture & compare 1 session where I draw along For the example videos, each session ended up being 3-4 sessions because of how much I was studying the way Stan draws the gestures. For the critique feedback video, I'm watching 20 mins of it at a time, then doing my session of 10 timed 30s drawings & 10 timed 2 min drawings

On each class tap the ‘Lessons’ tab & see all of what he’s instructing on. That should help see the difference. It’s immensely different.

its good that your gestures are not as stiff. I'd suggest taking out some time to improve your line quality. practice drawing basic shapes, straight lines,circles, curves, for a session. it'll really enhance your sketches.

These look pretty good, but i think you´re still focusing more in the contour of the figures than the real gesture. Think that the gesture is the "directon" of the body parts, also the gesture could be found inside or in the contour of the figure.

NIce!