Forum posts by Kim

I enjoy the color you've added. :) Your countour drawings have some fun qualities to them that make them fun to look at it, and it's clear you're starting to develop your own style.

To be very helpful to you, I need to ask: What's your learning goal right now? What are you trying to learn in those 2 minutes?

My guess at the moment is that you don't have a specific goal other than to try and do a drawing in two minutes, and I'm concerned you are currently caught up in having a "finished" drawing that it's nice for others to look at in two minutes flat, rather than using it as an exercise for improvement. It seems like you are focusing on capturing the outside contours of the body, but from this, I don't see any underdrawing or time spent trying to analyze, consider and capture the underlying shapes within the body that create those contours. (Unless you do and you've erased/turned off those layers?)

I think I saw you in another thread talking about that that you never do 30 second drawings and you need to "kill your perfectionism." so I wanted to toss the link to our tutorial which focuses on what to accomplish in 30 seconds -- or at least, one practical exercise that can be done in that time. :) It takes about 15 minutes to go through it.

I appreciate the suggestions Torrilin, but I just want to jump back in and say, as admin of the site: It is totally valid for some members to not want to see certain subjects, no matter how they are framing them in their minds or trying to flip the scripts, etc. There are a myriad of reasons why this might be the case. It's also quite a lot to try to do mentally when the main object is to study the pose and learn from it, sometimes in 30 seconds or less, without also having to come up with a whole backstory for the pose.

On another note, it occurs to me that requesting "only nude" models would remove a large quantity of these costumes you don't want to see, Meow420! Unless, of course, you don't want to see the nudity either.

I agree with what others have said about underdrawing -- and since mentions were made of our resources on this topic, I thought I'd drop a link to one of them ;)

https://line-of-action.com/learn-to-draw

That tutorial focuses heavily on how to do focused practice on seeing and using a line of action.

We currently have 4 different study tools that focus on different subjects; the figure study one is, well, just one. :)

Here is our faces and expression tool: https://line-of-action.com/practice-tools/face-expression-practice

I'd recommend exploring the site some to familiarize yourself with what we offer , you may have had figure drawing tunnel vision and we've got a lot of other cool stuff these days :)

I agree with everything that's being said so far. I would add: Shading cannot rescue a drawing when the underlying proportions aren't right. So usually the answer to "when should I start shading?" is "When you have finished making corrections and are happy with the proportions, relations of features and limbs to one another, and confident the composition and where things will be is "done.""

The other answer is: When you are drawing for fun and not working on learning something new, start shading whenever it makes you happy. ;)

Hi EmeraldBoa,

It's not quibbling at all, you definitely deserve the full time. :) Sorry if it's been gotten wrong. We generated and sent all the codes by hand, so it's entirely possible we just misclicked when assigning the time on the code. Please email backer-rewards@line-of-action.com with your backer code so we can look it up and get things fixed for you. :)

There's currently no way to remove a particular photographer's work, sorry! I am working very hard on a feature which will allow filtering photos based on various tags, such as filtering out sexy photos or photos involving costumes, which might address some of what you're looking for.

Marcus' photos were really intended more for stock photography use rather than artist training work, but his permissive use licenses were some of the most generous we encountered when looking for our original supply of photos.

No problem, I will add to my list to do more testing from Edge as well! I'm glad we have a workaround for you for the meanwhile :)

Just a quick tip about getting your image to work: Remember if you want to post an image, the link will have to end with an image file extension such as .jpg or .png. If your link doesn't end that way, then it's a link to a page that has an image on it, not to an image! Only images can be embedded, not whole other pages.

The easiest way to get your image link from imgur is to right-click the image and choose "copy image address" from the context menu. Then you can paste it inside of img tags here. :) I've gone ahead and done this for you for your convenience this time. :)

It does in fact already do some automatic reduction of the photo once we receive it; the problem is that it won't receive larger images right now in the first place. :)

Fixed for you. The only thing that should be inside your img tag is the number of the image. :)

I'll see what I can do about making this limit clearer and equipping us with a better error message so people know what's going on. :)

Yup, Sanne hit it on the head, 2MB is our current limit. I'm seeing if there's anything realistically and safely to be done about that, but that's what it is for now. :)

Hi Bookwrymling! I'm gonna have a few questions to try to narrow this down. First off, what's the file size of the image you're trying to upload? :)

Are you uploading very large files?