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@joseph_maxwell
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I am trying a different approach. I try two pictures then try the example to watch what proko does. I think I need to work on clean lines. Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
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3yr
Hi @joseph_maxwell, nice drawings! There's a lot of good stuff going on in these. I think the last one is really well simplified!
- You seem to understand the concepts of 3D form and gesture, I would say that what you need to do now is to become more fluent in them. Something about the line quality and the loss of gesture in 2nd drawing (note how the c-curve from left leg to left arm is much stronger in the photo), tell me that gesture and form could be come more intuitively ingrained.
I would recommend revisiting the gesture quicksketch exercise. The gesture exercise was were I grew familiar with the human figure and my pencil. I find this to be the most important exercise in the course, upon which everything builds. Post your drawings and tag me, and I might be able to help :)
I would also recommend practicing drawing cylinders and boxes from different angles. The point is to get really comfortable with them so that you can focus on analyzing the form when drawing the figure instead of how to draw a box correctly. Remember to draw through the forms, especially on a cylinder so that the crosscontours are proper ellipses (Structure Basics – Making Things Look 3D 07:56).
Hope this helps :) Keep up the good work!
PS I attached an image with some pracitice tips that helped me a lot when I took the course. Hopefully they can be useful to you too :)
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@joseph_maxwell
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Heres my first attempt. How long should I practice before going to the next lesson? Should I only do one lesson per week?
1-2 weeks is probably an okay amount of time if your putting time in every day. Gesture sketches and timed gestures are always good to continue with even when you move on to other exercises. If you feel like your getting it, keep going and engrave it. Too much time spent on it could be less efficient though rather than moving forward once you’ve picked it up. A lot of the later lessons help you understand the previous ones even better. The beam helps you get the gesture and the robo bean helps you get the bean better and they all help the figure as a whole get better. Definitely do them in order though. You can always go back and repeat
I would like to know the answer to this question to. I’ve watched the first two videos of gesture so far. I’ve probably done about 30 gesture drawings so far. I’m not sure when to move on.
