Forum posts by Frystorm

Yeah, as proko also says, getting proportions right is usually more important for longer drawings (more than 10 minutes), so moving forward, I think I'll follow that rule. I've known about it for a long time, but I actually only just reached the proportion section. So mainly, I was focused on getting down the gesture, though you're right, the proportions require a bit more care for longer drawings.

I don't think my pen strokes are short as a rule:there might be a couple of drawings where that's true and quite possibly the digital ones are, but that is because it's pretty hard to get a clean line on a tiny tablet. Ultimately, the solution to that for me is to have more construction in my drawing either with pencil or with a lighter line using a pen, or remove that problem completely by having multiple layers on a digital drawing (I'll still have to do the stroke eventually, with an even smaller drawing surface).



Also I think that drawing big with graphite can help me get out out of that habit, I've got a big sketchbook so I'll try to visit some life drawing classes with that, since I've pretty much only been using this website for figures the past couple of years (but it's still very useful as I can practice every day, whereas even when I was drawing from life, I would go at most once a week).

What I meant by exaggerating was more like stylizing, in the way that you see anime or comic book characters with typically more-concave-than-usual bodies. I'll try to get a better handle on the basics before attempting it in that way. I see the issue in the thighs. I'll analyze them to make more C curves than S curve to make things appear more realistic..

Hello Torrilin.



First of all, thank you for your advice.

The only area I (intentionally) add concave lines is for the tibia, or the shin bone, which tends to curve inward a lot. I undertsand the muscle on top still makes the overall shape of the shin convex, as the gastrocnemeus or calf muscle attached,but usually I add it afterwards, or not at all if it's a quick sketch.

I'll look into making some of my lines straighter. I might have exaggerated a bit too much, as I'm still learning gesture.

a few mannequin type practices I did tonight :

beans:

mannequin

a few more animal drawings from tonight[img]blob:https://imgur.com/9e60611f-f5a0-4a33-8edf-922ec798545d[/img]

First, I will share a few that I did from memory. I've been using line of action for the past 2 years, so I have a lot of the poses in my head...of course, it's hard to recall them without a prompt, but here are a few I just thought off the top of my head yesterday morning before doing the figure sketching.



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now for some of the real figure sketches these are my sketches from Sunday-today, so 3 days though I didn't include all of them. I'll start with 30 second ones. They're kind of messy and some fo the figures are sideways or upside-down, but I hope you can identify them.





Next, are a few 1 minutes and 2 minute sketches





then some 5 minute ones



another 5 minute

The last one was 5 minutes, but I kind of made a mess so I used the last minute to just make a new one in the corner.

Finally, a couple of 10 minute sketches







I also did some portraits today. Then 30 sec drawings.

five 1 minute drawings

a a couple of 5 minute drawings

and one 10 minute drawing





Any critique is appreciated! I use a felt tip pen to get out of the habit of making very small, tiny strokes and instead try to draw long, confident lines. It also helps that I can't erase so every mark I make, I try to make sure it is necessary. Though sometimes, this strategy doesn't work (like in the final 5 minute figure drawing, I kept going over the centre line/edges of the back), I find that in general it helps me learn.



I also do some digital sketches, which are easier to share but I'm a lot slower working on a computer, and also it's harder to get good line quality unless I really go slowly.



Edit:I removed some of the sketches from above and put them below after rotating/cropping some. I also added todays 1-hour class.