Trying to improve

by Naima, April 15th 2023 © 2023 Naima

Working on my bad habits and trying to really capture the over all ideas in stead of working small, small. It's hard to break a habit.

Polyvios Animations

Oh WOW, Naima, you're doing the greatest job I've ever seen you do before. So kindly keep up the loosest, lightest, yet liveliest lines of action in your work continually, but those poses, even your nudes could use some most expression in distorting the edges, so how would you like to push them your farthest with 1 more hour of 19 second quickiest yet scribbliest attitudes??

The reason behind this criticism of constructiveness is so that your poses will become the most cartooniest thing in your approach to the most holistic drawing. If you're totally curious about more loosest gesture sketching, then I'd like to show you something, and that is... this.

https://www.youtube.com/live/GNmA8AKbGUg?feature=share

This here is the Force Friday video from not long ago, but this one is a bit most right up your alley. Hope this helps you out the most, and HAVE FUN with it!;)

Naima

I really loved the video, but it took me only 30 secs to draw the poses. ( it is my usual doodle activity when I'm bored or listen to music). Please tell me what I got wrong.

Drunkenelf

If you are having trouble with drawing the whole figure before focusing on the small details, then quick poses are the way to go. It forces you to prioritize the whole pose, especially if you remind yourself of this goal before a practice session.

Drawing the whole figure first is very important. SInce these poses you posted don't have any times, I am going to assume they were short, maybe one or two minutes long. A lot of these would have benefited from a line of action. Not only do line of actions dictate the flow of your piece, but they can also provide a rough guess for how wide or tall the figure is going to be on the paper.

I can tell on the bottom figure you focused on getting the proportions of the legs right and forgot to take the size of the torso and head into account, making the figures angle look akward and lopsided. SPreading your time around the whole figure, drawing the parts of the body as simpler shapes, before going into details such as the calf muscles on the leg, means you are more likely to avoid this problem.

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