#1 sketch studio proportions 5m

by Variscol, November 25th 2023 © 2023 Variscol
Polyvios Animations

Greatest of shows, Variscol, but I'm not that satisfied with your scrawly shapes and gestures yet. Would you like to kindly try out 8 minutes of 59 second poses (8 drawings and 1 8-second figure sketch from memory(4 looking, but 4 drawing))

As a result of this exercise, then you can get better at combining gestures and constructions in order to perfectly draw imagined attitudes. For most details, kindly look into the 2 Walt Stanchfield PDFs both here, and Nick Meglin's drawing manual, right here, but you gotta be a member of Archive.org first, too.

Let's hope they have all helped, encourged, therefore inspired you.

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Variscol

Thanks a lot for your input. Will follow up!

Aunt Herbert

The proportion of limbs and torso are about right, and the overall pose of the model can be understood.

However, your forms and shapes look rather flat, not indicating a three dimensional foundation of your work, and your lines look incredibly indecisive and searching. This indicates to me, that the way you approach a photographic motif is still very basic. Improving the results through sheer practice and repetition will be incredibly hard and frustrating.

I would highly advice to go look up some tutorials about how to develop line quality, and how to find a foundational approach to the human body. For me drawabox.com did wonders for understanding line quality and proko.com helped me understand how to construct the human body. But there are certainly other good tutorials for those tasks online or in printed books, too. I promise you, practicing after a well designed routine will lead to rapid advances and lower the frustration level on your arts journey decisively.

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Hundin

I like it, to learn proportions you shouldn't focus on shading or using too many lines and over correct yourself, if you mess up somewhere you mess up it's no big deal that's what we're here to do is to learn and grow

overall it's good just focus less on shading, details, and a lot of lines and instead make the frame of the anatomy figure you're drawing

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