Figure Drawing Fundamentals

Stan Prokopenko
Learn Figure Drawing in an approachable and entertaining way.
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Sesese Masondo
Hello, I’ve just gotten back into drawing after more than a decade. Some I drew on top of others, so I don’t know how clearly it will read. Any critique would be welcome, I feel like I’m doing something wrong but I don’t know what.
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Anna Sch
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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Andrei Kladov
Some recent stuff, pencil on paper and digital.
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Svetlana Monroe
Hello, I’m new. Any wisdom is appreciated, and specific question: pencil on paper vs Procreate, and if Procreate then what would be your advice on tools/image sizes? Thanks!
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Momo Hoi
Can i have some assistance of help of how I can improve on these
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Andrei Kladov
Some recent from reference pencil sketches
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jaybo1987
My first attempts at gesture. I have rekindled my old love for drawing in recent weeks, but I find myself without direction. I figured going for a more classical schooling would help me on my way to my goal of comic art. Understanding the human body has always been my downfall and I feel like these classes are helping. Unfortunately they are no where near refined and they took maybe a little bit longer than 2 mins a piece.
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Andrei Kladov
The most recent pieces: live in the office and female from ref and imagination.
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melaniem
Does this course have an ebook too?
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John B
It only has videos.
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kingofdeathfire
If someone can please provide me a critique. Thank you :)
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Anna Sch
These look exactly like my first figure drawings a few years ago :)
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Alex Barban
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
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ben
9mo
here's day one, love if anyone could give feedback
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John B
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.
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dhiraj
Bean and structure excercise
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jecoolern
Heyo! I've been doing some gesture drawing recently and these are the 5-minute ones I did today, can I get some critism/feedback on it? Also should I do shorter length time too? Thanks in advanced!
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jai_k
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 "
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gleison
I’m thinking on starting Figure drawing Fundamentas , how do you actually dive your time studying it? Do I stay one week in each module ? Dedicate a few hours a day for a week or something or just go through them
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fuzzhead93
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
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evales
Hello all. Can anyone help me out here. What is the difference between this course and the Anatomy of the Human Body course? Besides the hefty price tag.
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11mo
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.
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Nikolas Kearns
Hey everyone, really struggling with my gesture drawings would love some constructive criticism :)
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tgsgames
So this is actually one of my measure practices but when I went to post...I couldn't find my reference photo! Oh well, I thought I'd get it up anyways! Some of the internal measurement are off. Gotta be a bit more fastidious with my plumb lines.
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Leo Weng
30s and 3min (misread the instructions…) any and all critiques are welcomed! I did a bit of self critiquing but I not too sure if Im accurate…
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Kedar Chande
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.
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dmartin0522
Hi guys. I recently watched the first two videos of the gesture drawing fundamentals course s couple of times already. I did some 45 seconds and 2 minute poses. I used Quick sketch.com for the poses. The first two images are 45 seconds poses and the rest are 2 minute. Critique is welcome. :)
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Haronnh Fernando Ávila vargas
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.
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Dima Jurf
Figure study using charcoal pencil and white pastel on A3 toned paper. First attemt on a big scale. Experimenting with different pencils on a toned paper is so much fun, though I need to practice more to achieve better results! Your feedback is much appreciated. Photo ref - IG: @lovero.art
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sally_r_baxter
NIce!
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Thomas Carroll
Is that a naked wamin?
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