why are you so helpful? you are not going to fool us with candy are you? Thank you so much for everything. i think my portfolio will be just enough. Iām hoping to give you guys some good news this friday (by saying that i totally jinxed it) :shrug:
Gesture Drawings - Post Your Gesture Drawings Here! - 2D TRADITIONAL / DIGITAL
vikkie,
Lol, no candy fooling involved! Nah, I just know how tough it is to find art training that doesnāt cost a million dollars for very little information. Plus, this is just loads of fun. Iāve never before experienced seeing so much artwork from so many different artists internationally, so this is just a cool experience. Best of luck, and hope to hear good news!
~Rebeccak
Hi, I got some time so working on gestures more.
Rebecca: Yes, you are right about tablets. IĀ“m using the new Intuos3 and they got better feeling but still not like pencil in my hand. IĀ“d like to completely work digital so Im forcing myself from old school paper:D. Here are another set of few gesturesā¦
Libor,
Cool that youāre working on these daily! Indeed, I too must wean myself from old school paper and learn to express a la Wacom Tablet. Painting is so great with the tablet, but drawing so far has been a bit trickier ~ tho it depends on the type of drawing Iām trying to do.
Good luck with these, and keep us posted on your progress!
~Rebeccak
OK Iām [color=Red]an [/color]amateur, and you can see so many mistakes here in these images:) Iād never taken any drawing classes. I just want to share this images with you, and try to learn sometning from you.
Donāt hesitate to write a review about them!!!
danimani, I hope you donāt mind I did a review on your drawing:
Proportion wise I think you did well. I like how you did the arms (where obviously Iāve failed). You should be more careful with the major body axis. For example the shoulder axis - I think his left shoulder should be placed a bit higher. You narrowed his torso too much. Also from your drawing you canāt really tell that heās leaning on his right foot.
10x a lot, Lunat1k:)
yes I can see all my mistakesā¦the shoulder, the position of the head, the right foot, the torso and ectā¦next time Iāll try to be more careful⦠about the handsā¦I use my own hand for a modelā¦but believe me there was nothing common:shrug:
see you
danimani,
Thanks for your posts! Donāt worry if you think youāre an āamateurā, I think actually your drawings hold a lot of potential! The only difference between an āamateurā and a āproā is dedication, so thereās no golden rule as far as that goes.
With your David copy, I think youāve got the right idea about finding the axes of the body, but Iāll post a review a little later showing how to find these correctly. With your hand drawing, I would say draw a sheet with several hands in different positions. Hands and feet are not necessarily as tough as people think they are, and the more often drawn, the more easy it becomes to break past that barrier of thinking they are challenging.
Looking forward to more of your posts!
lunat1k,
Thank you for doing a review, and I think you did a nice job of showing the basic axes! Itās nice to see others critiquing work, it definitely helps to get a variety of viewpoints.
~Rebeccak
danimani, youāre welcome man, glad I could help.
rebecca, your lessons are helping me a lot and Iām trying to do the same whenever I can :).
These are yesterdays (and todays) ābest ofā works (i did about 8 total and picked the ones I like). I still canāt get my grip on the offset curves, I think Iāll go through your OPPOSING CURVES lesson again. The other thing that bothers me is the arms (and sometimes the shoulder area). I just canāt get them right :(. My arms look like cylinders or worse.
danimani,
I decided to do a demo less than a review per se of your drawing, because I think the demo will be more useful to you and to others. I can see that youāre struggling with figuring out where to place the major axes of the body, such as the central axis, the axes of the ribs and pelvis, the axis of the head, and the axes of the shoulders and limbs. These are not always easy things to find, and you have to know how to look for them. That having been said, you can always find these axes if you take time to look for them. Here is an example with the David statue:
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A great way to practice finding these axes is to trace, either digitally or traditionally, master drawings or sculptures in this fashion ~ only finding the major axes and boxy / cylindrical shapes and masses, without worrying about minor details.
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[left]I hope this helps! Let me know if something is confusing, and Iāll do my best to explain it.
~Rebeccak
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Okā¦here is anotherā¦
Iāve started it early afternoon /yesterday/ and finished today this morning.
The problem is that I furst made the detailed oneā¦and after that I made the outstroked⦠I know, that I made a big mess with the sketchesā¦:sad:
Hmmmm the position of the right foot embarrassеd me a little.
And Rebecca is this the right place to post my rough sketches?
/sorry for my bad English/
danimani,
This is the perfect place to post these drawings, no worries. And I always think itās funny how Europeans apologize for ābad Englishā when most of you guys speak at least 2 languages, and then very well!!
We uni-lingual Americans are always just impressed.
You didnāt make a mess with the sketches, in fact, I think youāre doing rather well. It really doesnāt matter the order in which you create your sketches, so long as you are learning and getting something out of the process.
I like outstroked sketch better than the detailed one ~ the outstroked, or lay-in, sketch, is a much better kind of drawing to do because it forces artists to really think about what they are doing when they draw. Itās harder to do this way, and it takes a lot of time and practice to learn, but it is more than worth it to draw this way.
Continue to do more oustroke / lay-in sketches, and I guarantee that you will improve! I also recommend tracing the outstroke / lay-in on master drawings, paintings, or sculptures ~ tracing is a great tool for learning how the master artists worked!
I think itās great to see your progress, and I hope to see more of your work!
~Rebeccak
Hi Rebecca, i like to learn more about gesture drawing, so i try to make this one, i like to know about the gesture, thanks for the input
I havent contributed any artwork to these threads to heres some recent work. Im definately a line oriented person and I love gestures. In the meantime Im trying to get better at lightingā¦my weakness =)
cateaic,
Hi there, itās great to see your work! I always love to see Gesture Drawings such as these. Would you mind telling us something about your art background and training?
Cheers,
~Rebeccak
Its nice to see an artistic anatomy thread represented on a CG site, thanks for getting that started Rebecca=) I dont have much āhistoryā with an art backgroud except that im a recent graduate of the Art Institute. Ive been drawing seriously since I started college and I try to draw every chance I get.
Here are a few gestures recently done. Rebecca, I think youāve already seen these but I just came across this part of the forum and thought Iād post here as well.