Forum posts by Amandah

Hi daresom! These are looking good - your dynamics and movement are great! One thing that might help push the feeling of movement even further and help you draw more fluidly is if you actively try to use slightly curved lines for everything (except the hip/shoulder position lines), even limbs. Keep drawing!

Edit: Ran into this in the critique request and didn't realize it was a forum post/see the other replies. I'm in agreement with the above and would like to add the following tips for your gesture drawings (I apologize if any of this is covered in the YouTube video as I've not had a chance to watch it):

Hips and shoulders tilt in opposite directions. If the left hip is up high, the left shoulder should dip low and vice versa.

Focus on getting the angle of the hips, shoulders, and position of the head and spine before moving on to the limbs.

Human bones (and therefore limbs) are slightly curved. None of the lines should be perfectly straight.

Don't worry if you don't complete the sketch before the timer runs out! That's normal and happens to all of us. You'll get faster as you go.

At school they wanted us to do 30 of those little sketches a day, but I think even just 5-10 whenever you get a chance will get you going in the right direction.

• Amandah edited this post on September 2, 2020 1:54am. Reason: Removed redundant explanation of gesture drawings.