Forum posts by Swimteamizzle

I think I've got enough content to post an update. Through the past 2 weeks, I've tried sketching with my normal Helix Oxford pencils and I have to say I like them more than my mechanical pencils, which felt more awkward to hold for me. Thank you, Gongagoo.

I've been trying to go through the other sections of the site, Faces, Animal and Hands & Feet gestures, as well as keeping up with Figure Drawing, but it's only recently that I've managed to make up at least 3 semi recent sessions of those 3, as circumstance left me having to deal with a single session of Figure Drawing a day on most days.

Here're my figure drawing sessions from the past 3 days

https://imgur.com/a/V68tPMV - 30 sec

https://imgur.com/a/ACBt9Xe - 1 min

https://imgur.com/a/EhmNM8Z - 5 min

https://imgur.com/a/ru7DqgF - 10 min, includes some other 10 min pieces from other days I'd like judgement on

Here are the Animal, Hands & Feet and Face session galleries.

https://imgur.com/a/08xoCgc - Animals

https://imgur.com/a/Ud6PAyX - Hands & Feet

https://imgur.com/a/3UvSjO4 - Faces

Overall, I think I need to learn more about forms and perspective to get better at construction, although I feel like I might need a proper schedule of drawing so I can have time to learn and time to practice, because I usually can't fit learning and multiple drawing sessions into a single day.

Thank you, Beardly and Gongagoo for contributing!

To Gongagoo, I am using a mechanical pencil for these, Paper-Mate Non-Stop mechanical pencils, I never thought there'd be any mechanical artist pencils or something, I'll look into that Neox graphite stuff and other pencils later. I'll try some other gestures out with the different pencils I have on hand now though.

I'll try to draw through the forms on the shorter ones, though that'll be easier said than done! I guess I could try that 3 ball stick figure method for that in the 1 minute ones.

And on the feet comment, I have been trying to build up practice on the Hands & Feet class sessions, I should have enough for another post soon, although I think I avoid the feet the most because some pictures have boots/shoes on them and I slightly panic and try to just box them in then move on, although I do gloss over other feet that are bare, I'll try to detail the feet a bit more in future.

Thank you both again!

Thank you for your detailed response, Luhes! And don't worry, I understood your critique very clearly.

I have been trying to reduce the sketchyness and overuse of line I'm prone to by doing pen gestures, making strokes that I can't erase and have to be confident in on the fly.

https://imgur.com/a/lztRAu3

(don't mind the scribbles, I was checking which of my pens weren't dead)

I still have a bit of a problem with overstating lines, but that's something I'm going to have to deal with constantly through practice.

I had a feeling that I did have to study proportions and perspective to improve, so I'll try studying proportions and constructing figures through cubes to study how to apply perspective to figures like here

https://imgur.com/a/8gXfOhl

If you know of any effective sources for learning those, I'd like to know!

I'm a little new here, so please excuse any mistakes I may commit.

I've been gesture sketching since probably around July/August this year and I've really taken to it. Recently I've been doing the 30 minute class figure drawing sessions here to try and improve my general understanding of the figure. These are 30 second, 1 minute, 5 minute and 10 minute sketches from the past 5 days. I'll try and post sketches of other stuff like faces, hands and feet and animals once I've got a bigger backlog of them.

https://imgur.com/a/DFtWESN

https://imgur.com/a/VxNoszw

https://imgur.com/a/IHYmYZH

https://imgur.com/a/0lIi08L

Any tips or critique would be highly appreciated. Thank you for reading!

(I split the 5 minute one because I kind of doodled on those pages and so only scanned the actual sketches, it's ordered from newest to oldest like the other galleries.)