Forum posts by Kim

I'm still working on time zone settings. I hope to have it out in the next couple of weeks. :)

Your hands are fairly strong. I see a few minor issues, but for me, the key is this paragraph:

I feel I should change my routine a bit, focus more on full body poses instead of just hands 24/7 - maybe practice basic 3d shapes and lighting, too, as I spend far too much time working out where to put the shadows instead of thinking "this shape = this kind of shadow", which probably won't help me much in the long run.

Sounds like you've done a great job of self-diagnosing! I definitely urge you to put your own study-plan into practice for a couple of weeks. I really look forward to seeing where it leads you. :)

These are gorgeous! But one thing I notice is that none of these appear to use a line of action.

It seems like you are fairly confident with proportion and rendering poses as you see it. I think a fun challenge for you for a few weeks would be to draw a strong line of action, and then pick a part of the pose to believably exaggerate to get a more expressive and energetic piece of art. The real trick to doing this is to not make it feel so overdone that it's obvious or cartoony. :)

You've got some beautiful contour drawings for your figures, but little under-drawing is in evidence. That might help you to move onwards and upwards in your practice. Littlewaysoul already shared the link that I'd share about that. :)

I'm really enjoying your faces. Nice use of super minimal shading to show planes.

Not yet, but this is something that's high on my list to get up, along with hand/feet starting tutorials and a number of other exercises!

More filtering tools just went into beta - they are currently only available in the Figure Study tool, and only to people who have a doodler or full subscription. I'm pretty excited about this one -- it's been a long while in the making.

Screenshot:

Awesome work! I can already see structural improvements :)

Pushed out a whole bunch of fixes and changes today, including these on this list:

* In the animal drawing tools, selecting "All but insects and other creepy crawlies" will throw an error where the tools claims to have no matching images even though it most certainly does.

* "All mammals" in the animal tool DOES show only mammals, but not ALL available mammals.

* "react" box is too low when clicking the "react" buttonon mobile, so it looks like it didn't open.

Onwards and upwards :D

Your response made me smile. I'm so glad to hear you are enjoying your practice and finding your practices here helpful! :D

I think this topic actually knocked the previous version of this request and my answer off the front page, so I'll direct you there with a link: https://line-of-action.com/forums/topic/viewing-all-images-used-after-end-of-session :)

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. ;)