Forum posts by Idon'tknow

Just to be honest, if you already know how to draw a stable line that is where all progress is going to stop.

I am not making any of this up, this is the end line. I have been drawing random people badly (which is what gesture drawing is all about) for the last few months and I still don't know what I am even doing. All tutorials and outside media are made by people who already know anatomy, yet anatomy cannot be learned unless you know gesture drawing, can you see the logic here?

the alternative is to draw each shape of the body the same way an architect would, you'll need to learn 3d shapes subdivided regularly that bend in different directions, but that requires so many construction lines you'll not be able to see the drawing.

My biggest advice is: draw like you have nothing to learn, do stuff at random, chase all the wild geese you want and be shure to get distracted enough to not let your frustration ruin the process. In my case I have been turning pokemon designs into simple shapes. If you want I can teach you those shapes

• Idon'tknow edited this post on October 29, 2024 11:14am.

I don't think there are. maybe some reddit sub but it is way easyier to get unsubstantial feedback

Hi, I am again picking up a completely different method to learn to draw and somehow arrive at gesture drawing and finally to anatomy. Here is the link, tell me how can I improve. Apparently I can't understand how to give them thiccness, so if anyone knows how to do that might be great.

https://imgur.com/a/tDQoyga

All drawings look rough but the spine and the head are hands down the best part, they are incredibly smooth. Now, i can also see many attempts at breaking down the body into different shapes, it's not wrong doing so but I do not recommand it for beginners unless they are 5 minutes for each drawing.

Also, make the rest of the lines just like the spine, one simple curved line, the less lines are traced the better.

• Idon'tknow edited this post on October 15, 2024 5:33pm.

Thank you very much for your words, it makes me so mad I am not part of those people. I have been chasing wild geese this entire time and did random stuff to make me think it serves at something, but now I just feel lost.

• Idon'tknow edited this post on October 11, 2024 9:19pm.

your drawings seem to establish pretty well the force of the pose.

I suggest you should take more importance to the legs since they don't seem to distribute the weight of the person you are drawing, one suggestion is to draw one vertical line from a man's torso and then distribute both feets in equal distance from that line, in case the weight is on one foot draw it in the center of that line. One more thing, don't draw each muscle yet, each curve is supposed to be based on the previous curve and give it fluidity, your approach was more building them based on memory and it disrupts the dynamysm of the drawing.

Yeah, it does that sometimes. you just click the british/american flag on top right of the site

• Idon'tknow edited this post on October 9, 2024 1:53pm.

I think the biggest gripe I had with that book is that it was made by someone that already knows anatomy down to a T but absolute beginners (like me) don't know anatomy... so it is quite obvious there is a lack of comunication between me and the book. Also I have his the anatomy book and the first thing I see is "needing to draw with force" and I was like "ok buddy, first I can't understand your gesture drawing because I don't know anatomy but then you tell me I should comprehend gesture drawing to learn anatomy?!".

Dude I gotta tell you it's the first time I felt softlocked in real life. Thanks anyways for what you told me, I guess there is still something to learn there after all.

I've done some poses 5 minutes each, i've spent more time redoing them over and over again, the right pose was the most difficult to me https://imgur.com/a/LQXvaDT