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Hi everyone,

I'm now on day 23 of gesture study and wanted to share some progress: https://imgur.com/a/EsbP6Gf

You all had really helpful advice! I'm not sure if I should have created a new/separate thread - I'll leave it here for now.

I just happened to do the same croquis cafe session as the one I uploaded in my last imgur link (https://imgur.com/a/zGDPq4W) so I think it's a pretty good comparison.

I'm getting better at letting the 30 second gestures be loose and just about finding a flow.

I'm not really sure where to go with the longer gestures - in the 5 min gesture in this session I started adding some structure because I'm also practicing the robobean from proko and wanted to try applying it here.

Let me know if you have any other feedback :)

Thanks everyone for your feedback!

I've done a lot since 10th June and tried to incorporate your feedback so I'll post some of my new figures within the next week.

Hi Antebellum,

I agree with Fadee7 that your gesture drawings seem stiff.

I used to draw gestures the exact same way, until I learnt a bit more about the purpose of gesture, and how to do it from the Proko Figure Drawing series.

Check it out here if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtG4P3lq8RHGuMuprDarMz_Y9Fbw_d2ws

I went back to the first video a bunch of times during daily gesture practice just to let it sink in. I think it'll help you a lot.

Try to use less lines and find the flow of the figure (or action line) rather then drawing each contour of the body.

Get really good at gesture and then you can build structure on top of the gesture with simple forms later (I'm in the middle of this process myself).

Thanks Psychicdan for the advice! I really appreciate it. I've heard of the force method but never tried it, so I'll look into that.

Thank you Polyvios!

Hannah also mentioned proportion is probably what I should focus on getting better at, so I'll do that :)

I'll try the 30 minutes of 2 minute gesture drawings - 1 minute is probably too short for me right now to get the proportions right. Let me know if that's what you meant.

Thanks!

Thank you Hannah! I really appreciate you taking the time to critique :)

I definitely need to work on proportions more. In fact I've never really studied proportion, I just started with gesture drawings and the forms sometimes look proportionately OK, and other times not...

So I'll find some resources and make sure I really understand proportion, and apply those to my future gestures.

Thanks again!

Hi all,

I've been doing daily gesture practice for 11 days. I want to keep this up and improve a lot.

Here's what I'm doing:

1. I'm watching the Proko figure drawing course on YouTube and doing the assignments

2. Doing daily Croquis Cafe sessions

3. And 20 minutes of 30 second poses on LoA (not every day but most days).

Here are my gestures from my two most recent Croquis Cafe sessions:

https://imgur.com/a/zGDPq4W

The Croquis Cafe gestures are 5x1min poses, 4x2min poses and then 1x5min pose. I've numbered them on the page.

Please let me know your critiques! Am I doing anything right? At the moment I feel like I'm not sure where to focus or what the big problems are.

I try to go back to my previous gestures and make notes on what to improve, but I think it really helps to have others look :)

Thanks in advance!