@yosra24
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@yosra24
This is a cute  Mythical Creature I've created as my first character design. Any feedback!!
@paper
to be honest,I think most of these are pretty good,I can read the gesture pretty well and you seem to make most of them dynamic enough.If you're feeling like you're losing the gesture from adding in detail,then yes,it is partly beginner stage.But also I'll argue at this stage of the game you need to study structure more than anatomy or detail.Try to make the body 3 dimensional,try to make it feel like it's volumetric.Add rubber stamp around the figure to make it feel less flat.(this can be done in 1-2 minutes gesture study so you have time) Also look up other gesture artist,most of them do not prioritize anatomy (except if you're Jeff watts and even then he ussually only add a line to indicate a part of the muscle(example below)).Look up Glen keane (exampe below again),look up Aaron Blaise (again),Kim Jung Gi.These artist are not priotizing anatomy,they know anatomy,but they are focusing on the energy of the pose,the line quality,if the body feel 3 dimensional! Anyway,I'm sorry that it ended being so long,if that was too long the gist of it is that I don't think you should be focusing your attention on the detail than on the the previous mention stuff. (I hope this was useful and wasn't too ranty,thank you for reading)
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@yosra24
No it's not long at all. Thank you so much for your feedback.
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Liandro
Hey @yosra24! You’re probably not doing anything wrong. This hardship you’re going through is a common part of the learning process, so 99% sure that’s all it is. Your gesture sketches look pretty good for such a short time you’ve been studying it. Gesture can look simple at first, but it’s actually a quite complex skill because it involves a great deal of imagination, abstraction and synthesis. And it’s definitely a big challenge, even for advanced artists, to balance gesture expressiveness with anatomy accuracy in a quicksketch, so my advice would be to just let go of anatomy completely when practicing gesture - at least for now, when you’re still getting familiar with it. Instead of a real human, try to imagine that you’re drawing the action itself, the “pure energy”; or imagine the body is not a solid material, but made of fluid, like a flowing stream. This kind of strategy can help take our concern out of “drawing a person” and activate our attention to “drawing the motion”. Ultimately, my take is that you’re doing fine so far - above all, try to be patient and don’t judge yourself or your drawings too much, just draw. Gesture is not to be “mastered” at once, it’s something to keep practicing regularly and growing on slowly in the long run. At some point later on, you may want to go back and study it again. For now, I agree with @paper: maybe moving on and learning a bit more about volume and structure should help. In case you haven’t taken the next lesson in the Figure course, I guess you’ll find it fun: How to Simplify the Motion of the Torso – The Bean Hope this helps. If you have questions or anything else to discuss, feel free to pop it out. Best of luck!
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@yosra24
Thank you so much Liandro. Your tips are really helpful and encouraging.
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@yosra24
I've been trying to learn gestures for the last couple of weeks but I feel like I'm stuck at this stage and only getting worse. I feel like something is wrong with my anatomy. whenever I try to add anatomy or details I always feel like I'm losing the gesture. If I really try to loosen up and use my shoulder the lines come up wrong. Am I doing something wrong that I'm not paying attention to? or it's just a beginner stage? Thank you in advance.
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