3 Oct 2020, 23:29
I feel a bit rusty. The heads one was harder than I thought. I had a hard time nailing the expressions to the names I had in mind.
Gesture Drawing Class Work (anyone want to post their work with me?)
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@LauraA For some I did singles and others I did them in pairs. Sometimes the foot poses were looking kinda "blah" alone, so I felt the need to add the second one for more information.
I love your characters for assignment 3! I was having a hard time thinking of waiting poses, but you thought of some really fun ones.
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Incoming hands and feet!
Early in this assignment I got sidetracked with Baroque painting and sculpture, because I love the drama of Baroque hands and feet. Then I decided I wanted to study different ages and how children run. So my hands and feet aren't as whimsical as yours, @TessaW, and I suspect the assignment called for something freer and more creative than what I did, but I did have fun. Strangely, I could draw hands and feet all day!
P.S. Something I noticed is that when you draw contours of baby or small child feet, they really do have those lines that look like little rubber bands around their wrists and ankles, but if you draw them, they end up looking like Jabba the Hutt. So the hardest thing about the assignment was figuring out with how much wrinkle to leave and how much to erase so the babies didn't like like fat giant old men.
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@Annaaronson I hope you do post!
@LauraA Yeah, yours look like full on hand/foot studies, but the gestures look really solid and expressive, so you got even more out of it, which is totally a good thing. I love the baby/toddler ones. They definitely look like baby/toddler's to me! I can just hear that pitter patter of little feet.
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I hope someone else who is taking this class will post there work here! Anyway, here is the heads assignment.
I ended up using some of these for character design for a sequence I want to do. If you know the books, perhaps you can even tell what it is! Since I didn't have a clear idea yet what I wanted the characters to look like yet, though, I had some style and consistency problems, but that's part of why I used the exercise this way. Maybe that wasn't the original intent of the exercise, but it was helpful to me. I also left some blank space on the pages to keep going, since I feel like I should do more of this.
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Trying to get back into the class! I'm interested in what she says about heads now.
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Extrapolation- taking preexisting characters and using them with the gestures provided.
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Oh, I'm so glad you're back, @Tessa! I missed your funny interpretations, and I now also realize that I never posted my other exercises that go with this lesson.
The 360 one is hard, BTW!!!
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I feel a bit rusty. The heads one was harder than I thought. I had a hard time nailing the expressions to the names I had in mind.
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360 exercise. You take a photo of the model provided and then draw it from different angles from your imagination. You're right @LauraA, it was so hard! Still need to do 2 more poses. This one took so long. I have no idea if I got the feet close or not. They were probably the hardest part.
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@TessaW Wow, these look great! Thanks for always providing me such a high standard to live up to. I'm actually thinking about going back and redoing some of these.
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@LauraA Hah, I'm pretty sure you're setting the high standard here.
More stuff. Had a hard time as usual!
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No @TessaW , yours have so much more personality! Love that...pirate in underwear?! I was just trying to get the anatomy right and above all, trying not to take as long as I did on some of the others. Here are the ones I left out of Lesson 5. Lesson 6 coming up...
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Oh, just wanted to add that I would never have thought of drawing Skullchaser, but in the end it was really fun and I like this idea of taking a human model pose and making it into a more stylized character.
Also, I like Skullchaser's flared arms and legs. There's something almost classic 1970s about him and besides, flare is back in style!
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Here are some of the exercises for Lesson 6!
Beginning and end--I like the pitching one better than the tug of war one:
360-I had the most fun with the medieval one (though I wasn't so consistent with the drapery), and with all of them, adding the clothes helped me find mistakes in the rotation. In fact, I'm seeing mistakes even now!:
I recommend this class to anyone, because the exercises are really helpful, especially these last ones!
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@LauraA Ooh nice work on the 360 rotations, they look very believable! I found them fun but super challenging (with mistakes galore) just shows me what I need to practise
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@Lovsey Thanks! Do you have a thread somewhere with your work for this class?
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@LauraA I didn’t share mine on the first pass of the course, I gave myself permission to keep things sloppy, loose and quick and the perfectionist in me struggled enough with that without the added pressure of sharing them
Next time!@TessaW I just noticed your amazing 360 turnarounds too! Those are some short shorts
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@LauraA Sweet, I love seeing your versions. Omg, you were so good at the beginning and end exercise. Great job on the 360 too! That exercise is insanely hard.
@Lovsey Hah, thanks! Those shorts are a bit more modest than the Speedos the model is wearing at least.
Ok, did the 2 person interaction ones.
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Here’s my collection of my best gesture drawings from throughout the course. Wow, there’s so much to learn by viewing everyone else’s work. Thank you everyone for sharing.
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@tombrinck Very nice! I see you did a lot of contour drawing. And your variations have a lot of personality! I recognize some of those poses!
@TessaW I like your takes on the subject matter, as usual!