Forum posts by Meijiisconfused

Hi fellow french person :)

Looking at your work I can tell than you are WAY more advanced than me, you've done a good job working on your skills!
So anything I'll say, keep in mind that these are just statements of what I'm feeling towards your drawings, just expressing what looks "good" or "bad" to me and giving suggestions.

Regarding figure drawing I don't want to comment on your quick poses because I'm currently learning a new method of drawing the figure (Mattesi's method) and I feel I should do a little more practice before giving you advice on that aspect. On top of that you seem to know what you're doing.
But I think you could put a cherry on top on your 5 and 10 minute drawings just by implementing more lines of beauty into your shape design.
Try to use them by following the flow/rhythm of the figure.
In case you don't know what I'm talking about, here is a video showing this concept applied to anatomy. https://youtu.be/rPWa5kSwVGE
And here are 2 poses of 5 minutes I've done today using (soft) lines of beauty as outlines. I'm still new at exploring this concept and currently learning anatomy, so the anatomy may look fundamentally off.

In my eyes, using lines of beauty on human anatomy makes perfect sense to me, makes things more fleshy and "human".

For the head drawings, I see that you made little to no underdrawings, which totally makes sense considering the brush used (otherwise the underdrawings would be very apparent) and I think that's the point (or maybe not, you tell me).
However, even if I'm assuming that it is the point of using this brush and assuming you didn't want to go for a stylized look, I feel like they lack a sense of construction and realism. Aside from the one seen in profile on the second row which looked the best to me, I think you should emphasize these aspects a little bit.
Still, this is pretty impressive for me considering these are probably 1 to 5 minute heads with minimal underdrawings :)

Hi!

I'd like some critique on a figure drawing session I just finished.

I've been pushing gesture for the past couple of days, but I admit I should delve deeper into anatomy at this point.

Also, I'm now using M.Mattesi's Force method because his way of teaching rhythm and gesture really speaks to me (in case anyone is familiar with his teachings and would like to give some pointers on Force, I'd appreciate it!)

Thank you for making this topic,

I've had my doubts about critiquing others on this site because I'm fairly new at properly learning art, but this inspires me to critique whenever I can from now on.

Hello Sci Girl,

Indeed, I should really focus on anatomy more, I've already ordered an anatomy book (the one from Michael Mattesi since I'm a great fan of his teachings) so this will be one of my priorities real soon!

I also wanted to say that I'm also doing a bunch of completely different things asides from figures and line work like value studies, color studies, face sessions, hands sessions, brushes experimentation, original pieces, OC characters, animals, monsters, and the list goes on...

I just like don't want to "spam" the site with my work and I especially wanted to get critiqued on what I struggle the most in art : drawing the figure and giving life to it


But you're still right I think, I should maybe take a break from the figure in general once in a while and then come back.

Thanks for the advices!

Thank you both of you for the helpful feedback!

Hi,

I'd like some critique on 2 sessions of 30 minute figures I just finished doing.

https://imgur.com/a/IEhLDeR




Also I'd gladly want to hear some insights about my progression so far, am I going into the right direction at all ? I feel like I'm plateauing or getting worse and worse sometimes, but that might be just me.

For example here are 30 minute figure sessions I've made from nearly 1 month ago. https://imgur.com/a/ZXGFl8i

I've also been updating my sketchbook for the past week and trying to incorporate critique I receive, here are the works I've posted so far: https://imgur.com/a/ubs4ZlM



Thank you in advance

Hi, thanks for the feedback,
To be more precise I've been practicing several times since like 2 weeks ago with this site, I've just recently subscribed to the site and started participating in the community, hence why I'm "new" here. Sorry for the confusion.
I've already watched a giga ton of videos about gesture and already done the tutorial when I started practicing here, so I guess I need to practice more and more the gesture aspect of my figures.
Thanks again for the critique!

Hi all!
I'm new here and I have been practicing very casually gesture drawing and other basics for the past 3 years.
However I've been taking more seriously art for the past few months and have been drawing mostly everyday for the past month.
I'm looking for critique of figure drawings I just finished doing and want to know what I can improve next time.
Thanks in advance!

https://imgur.com/a/OQmey37