Forum posts by Jelli Bee Kate

Hi, PastaBrother!

I know you've already gotten a lot of critique on this, but I would just like to add some things I think might be helpful. First off, I would like to say I like how expressive your drawings feel. It's like you can tell how they breathe just by their stance.

After looking at both your final, more detailed sketches and your quicker pieces, I think you should try working on creating longer, more continuous lines rather than the small scratchy ones you currently do. This will help form a pose that's a lot less stiff and rigid. It also saves you less time in the long run, even with your more detailed poses. I think it would help to sketch it in your head first by just looking at the image and then start your piece after.

Along with that, while your sketches are very good and well detailed, they lack depth and perspective. Currently, your image can make it look like they're supposed to be facing a certain way, but then you're placing the feet or the arms along the same invisible line. It helps if you draw inside a cube for some poses or put three lines or an oval where the feet should be.

First off, trying new techniques always takes a second to get used to, but the one important factor to remember about gesture drawing is to go with the flow. As for your arms and legs, I think you have to switch the way you're shaping the joints. Currently, your style of gesture drawing has you connecting the legs straight while instead when they meet at the knee, the calf should look slightly slanted and curve either smoothly or sharply into the foot depending on the pose. This goes with the arm as well. If you look back on the first gesture video, you can see how the artist curves the forearms lines in to create an elbow without putting in too much linework to it and without it looking like the limbs are straight on or being squeezed. Hope that makes sense!