Forum posts by Hszczypka

Hi NatiS,

Welcome to the site! The first thing I notice is that you are drawing really really small. Don't be afraid to take up more space- cheap printer paper will do fine when doing quick drawings and will make you less precious about your drawings. There's lot's of potential here, your proportions look pretty good in some of the longer drawings.

What I think could help you improve the quickest would be to focus on lots of quick poses and really trying to capture the whole body- it's hard at first but you'll get better over time! Identifying the line of action is a great start but ultimatley you want to be able to tell what the pose was when looking back at your gesture. Alex Woo does excellent gestures if you want to see the kind of approach I mean. The other main tip I'd give you would to be to draw shorter poses in pen- it'll help your line quality get more confident and economical over time, and make your drawings more communicative.

Great start and keep going!

Hi Wing!

There's no wrong way to improve, I think the best approach is to focus both on anatomy and gesture. Longer poses are useful to help focus on propotion and figuring out how the different body parts work together. Shorter poses allow you to get familiar with the body quickly and understand the rhythm in the pose. Doing both will allow help you understand the body more and improve your overall drawing skill.

This drawing is a good start for gesture, It's very fluid and has lovely line quality. I'd try and aim to draw the full body - doing many 30 sec-2 min poses but really focus on getting the whole body in - sometimes indicating the direction of the head and placement of the feet and hands say more about the pose than the rest of body does! My aim for gesture drawing is to really try and understand the overall mood or feeling of the pose, and then try and capture that. It's more important for me to have a drawing that's recogonizable as the pose than to have a decent 'copy' of a photo. Getting cheap pens and printer paper and going out and drawing real people also help me speed up instead of working digitally, but that's just my preference.

Drawn to life vol 1. 2 and alex woo's gesture drawing course on schoolism are very good resources on getting into gesture.