Let's do How to Draw Gesture together (nudity)
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Note to anyone in charge: It would be nice if we had a spoiler tag because figure drawing does typically involve a lot of nudity, which I've never seen on this forum. I noticed there is a plugin available for this forum software here: https://community.nodebb.org/topic/7078/nodebb-plugin-ns-spoiler-ns-spoiler
If this is deemed inappropriate please feel free to delete my post and let us know what to do.
With that out of the way: I know it can be hard to post these types of things since they will be far from perfect. I'll be happy to get the ball rolling because this allows me a chance to live up to the username!
I did an hour today. Broke it into three 20 minute sessions at 1 , 2 , and 5 minutes per drawing. I used photos from Proko (you can join the mailing list at Proko.com for a free pack) and the ones included on line-of-action.com. With Line of Action you can have the photos auto load at the desired interval, and if you have membership (I was a backer of LOA awhile back and have membership for a year) can upload your own photos, so I've got Proko's pack in there too.
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@SketchyArtish The are great! I especially like the 1 minute drawings. Unbelievable what you can do in just one minute... I'll be doing mine later this morning. My goal is to do two sessions today.
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@SketchyArtish wow, good job! I only did three minute sketches. I didn't know about line of action, a good resource to check out, thanks '
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@SketchyArtish Good question on the nudity issue. I've retitled the thread to include "nudity" in the subject.
And on that note, I edited the image I'm about to submit. I had included the reference photo, but I hope for my sketch to convey the gesture. This would make the reference photo (it's nudity and copyright issues aside) not be necessary. We'll see.I'm impressed with how many of you are recording the time you're taking for the gesture drawings.
I did the following 4 in maybe about 20 minutes. I'm inspired by @Annemieke goals of being less photorealistic. I hide there, too!
I like your daily goals-I'll copy you and go for 3 gestures/day. (See-I told you that YOU would inspire ME!)
@Kat you're going for 20-30 per session-I'll be curious to see my stamina! I can see that @SketchyArtish drawings are much simpler (good) perhaps because of the time limit. Maybe the skill improves with quicker sketches. I'll see.I'm curious to watch the 2nd video-targeting tomorrow (Monday) for that.
Thanks for playing along.
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Thanks for the kind words! I should note that gesture drawings are something I've practiced a bit. IMO, the time limit is key to learning good gesture. What's important is the movement and feel of the pose, not the likeness to an individual. The faster speed forces you to give up the details up front. You can add those later.
When starting I would highly recommend 2 types of sessions:
- 30 seconds per pose. Use lines, but like Proko mentioned in the first lesson they should be flowing, not stick figures. It's all about capturing that feel. I had to work my way up to getting contours in with a 1 minute session.
- 2 minutes per pose, with a twist. Take 2 minutes to capture the pose, but use as few lines as possible. Spend 80%+ of your time just looking and thinking about the absolute most simple way to convey the message. Can you capture a pose in 3 lines or fewer?
Definitely give the shorter sessions a shot. Doing those 2 exercises really helped me start putting the gesture before the details.
Also note that I did these larger and resized them to present them here. I set up enough layers to do about 2 - 4 per page and label the times before starting. Then when finished I merge them into the smaller versions for posting. If you're using paper try not to be cheap. The bigger the drawing the better your flow will be generally.
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Here's all that I was able to accomplish today. Not much because of constant interruptions, so hopefully I can do more later. I watched only the first video, then set quickposes.com to 60-second poses. I tend to focus too much on details right away, so I was using a pencil on it's side, trying to get just a thick line. Second page I quit doing that because I didn't like how things were looking like just a big smudge.
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ok I did 20X3 minute sketches Saturday (was aiming for 10 but kept going!)
Sunday I did the same thing.
Trying for long loose lines "line of movement" like he says in video, I have a ways to go to get it......I am using the free model poses from Proko at the moment. Setting the timer on my phone and switching at 3 minutes to a new one. some of the models, especially the men are pretty muscled up so I find I want to contour the muscles but am trying to look for that longest line.........practice practice practice!
I ried to scan my drawings but they are so light they're not showing up and I can't figure out how to upload pics form my phone, so I am a bit slowed down on that front right now. Will try again later.
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@Coley Try what I mentioned before about the 30 second drawings. You won't even start to think about the muscles with that time limit!
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@SketchyArtish @Coley
Thanks for the suggestions of using shorter time limits-as it forces you to focus on the big gestures rather than the anatomical details.I did the following sketches, on my deck yesterday afternoon-using images from Quick Poses, 30 seconds each.
I'm much happier with them and even enjoyed drawing them.
I watched the first half of Gesture Step by Step-and am going to back and sketch the models, and then re-listen to him as he talks us through them.Always open to any feedback.
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@Susan-Marks Those beautiful flowing lines on the second and third panels of the first image are exactly what you're looking for! You can really sense the movement and flow of the pose on those. Looks like you started stuttering a bit after that. Maybe over-thinking it a bit?
I recognize some of those poses and the crouched over ones can be soooo intimidating. Keep at it!
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Awesome start everyone. I fully intend to join and submit work too. But this week I am working 2+ times my normal work hours and don't have the time to devote to an art class. I will do double duty when my paying job settles down next week. See you all then.
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Sketched along with the 30 second and 2 minute example video. Practice, practice, practice.
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I want to join too! I drew some poses from line-of-action.com. It's hard to know what lines I'm supposed to draw and what I'm not supposed to draw. Looking at my sketches after the fact I think I should probably try to make lines of action more instead of drawing the outline of the figure.
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I've been doing about 20-30 one-minute poses for three days now. I'm trying to upload pictures but cannot seem to get them added to a post (I'm posting from my iPhone). It's not very important, they look a lot like the others posted here
. I'm planning to do two more days before I move on to the next video. That gives me about 100 poses before I move on.
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@Buddy-Skelton these are really nice!
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@DLArmantrout these are looking good! I think he does say in video to find line of action. interestingly a lot of your poses seem to have movement in them
I will chekcc out that site you mentioned that you drew from
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@Susan-Marks I did a similar thing, I watched part of video (just the 30 second poses part) and then I went back and paused it and sketched and then watched him sketch again.......learned a bunch that way. Today I am going to watch the rest of the video and do some more drawing. Hopefully can get 20 of them in. I think yours are looking like a great start....someone mentioned maybe more flowing lines, i think that is spot on advice
gonna try to post some of mine soon
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this is lame but I still am having trouble uploading lol. I scanned in a couple of the darker ones, everything esle is too light......actually the scan doesn't pick up all the lines but c'est la vie. i'll dig out my camera later! A bit strapped on time !
Today I am watching rest of the second video and practicing again for at least 30 minutes, aiming for 20 poses so that would be 40 minutes actually...Scan0023.pdf -
@DLArmantrout Those look pretty nice for 1 minute poses, but I agree with you that you should aim for the line of action instead of trying for contours. In the second video in the class Stan says "It's important to draw what you feel, not what you see." He talks a little about avoiding the contours too. If you have time to get the contours in that's cool, but start with the line of action and capturing the action of the pose.
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@Coley You can always do them in pen. It's a bit scary since you can't erase, but these are so quick erasing is usually a moot point.