30 seconds
© 2024 Slim Fried
Done as part of a practice session with poses of 30 seconds in length.
My current goal is: Better understand human anatomy, so I can render imagined poses
Mahatmabolika
Hey Slim,
you already seem to have a proper grasp of basic proportions as well as the three big boney masses of the body (skull, ribcage and pelvis). Also your lines are beautiful and flow nicely, which goes a long way.
You say, you want to get better at drawing human anatomy. While the super quick gesture drawings can be a very valuable tool, I believe you are using it the wrong way. You seem to throw down as many lines as quickly as possible, to see what kinda fits to get as far as possible within the very short time frame.
Instead of trying to get as far as possible, do the opposite and try to make every single line you draw mean something and be as 'true' as possible. Also: slow down. When the time starts, take 10 seconds to just look at the picture and structure it in your head. How does the pose feel? What are the most important gesture lines? Think about what you want to draw and emphasize. Ghost the line(s) (i. e. do the drawing motion without actually drawing), then put it down. Check out Ryan Woodward's gorgeous gesture/figure drawing as a direction (the simpler ones). Convey the pose (or even just parts of it) with as few lines as possible.
I also believe 30 seconds is too short a timer for anything beyond warming up your arm, if one is still unsure about anatomy. I tend to get overwhelmed and in a rush and forget the very things I wrote about above. For the quick ones I usually do between 1 and 3 minutes.
Hope this helps! Keep up the good work!
you already seem to have a proper grasp of basic proportions as well as the three big boney masses of the body (skull, ribcage and pelvis). Also your lines are beautiful and flow nicely, which goes a long way.
You say, you want to get better at drawing human anatomy. While the super quick gesture drawings can be a very valuable tool, I believe you are using it the wrong way. You seem to throw down as many lines as quickly as possible, to see what kinda fits to get as far as possible within the very short time frame.
Instead of trying to get as far as possible, do the opposite and try to make every single line you draw mean something and be as 'true' as possible. Also: slow down. When the time starts, take 10 seconds to just look at the picture and structure it in your head. How does the pose feel? What are the most important gesture lines? Think about what you want to draw and emphasize. Ghost the line(s) (i. e. do the drawing motion without actually drawing), then put it down. Check out Ryan Woodward's gorgeous gesture/figure drawing as a direction (the simpler ones). Convey the pose (or even just parts of it) with as few lines as possible.
I also believe 30 seconds is too short a timer for anything beyond warming up your arm, if one is still unsure about anatomy. I tend to get overwhelmed and in a rush and forget the very things I wrote about above. For the quick ones I usually do between 1 and 3 minutes.
Hope this helps! Keep up the good work!
Slim Fried
Thank you. This was very helpful and very true. I needed to read this
Ekiya
Try using less lines, try it to be rhythmic and single line for figure as base, if the figure is made in larger size than as of current one it'd be better for both improvement and in seeing it. For closely bound figure try using darker lines to highlight under or above lying region of body. That's it, yup, Good luck.
Say, I really think you're doing the most stunning-est of jobs on further economizing your edges, gestures and forces, but I feel they aren't economic enough to me yet. How would you like to please still try out the interactive drawing tutorial here, if you really haven’t already.
The reason why you would, should, and could do this tutorial is because you can and will sharpen and resharpen your visual communication through the quickest drawings, but you can and will help yourself to keep on exaggerating and caricaturing, but having almost all the fun with those.
I know if that's gonna suck baddest at first, but don't worry, with the strongest attitude and confidence, you can and will improve most dramatically with strongest age.
So, furthermore, for most tips and tricks, I'd lick to both recommend and suggest you could look into the Mike Mattessi Force books on Amazon and your local book store, and the Vilppu Drawing Manual here on PDF.
My hat's off to you.