Forum posts by Polyvios Animations

Good afternoon, Calvinnyecomics, and nice job on your range of motion and lines of movement in your forms of the pose, but I'm not getting enough of the loose lines of action and organic pose, so how would you like to go for 32 minutes of 2 minute drawing poses? The reason why is because, your lines of action and rhythm will become less than rigid and the most bold, spontaneous, and alive. Be sure please to look at tons of instructions and inspirtations on gesture drawings form physical books, ebooks, video tutorials on YouTube, and many, many more. Good luck to you.

Greatest performance on your most trickiest pose, but kindly don't you get too hung up on the most complicated details in your attitude, so would you love to go for 2 hours of 30 second fastest and scrawliest poses, regardless of complication? The reason is as a result, your most complicated of attitudes will be the least hardest to do, and the most simplest and easiest to look at and sketch out, for you can and will be able to be the most easiest with your fluidest and flowing lines of action and rhythm. Look, I know it's the easiest to be too stiffest with your studies, so it's all alright that all artists hate all of their stiffest drawings, but the only best solution by far, is to do it another time or more, in order to get the best confidence in your sketching knowledge, and the knowledge of anything. For most details, please suggest yourself a copy of Andrew Loomis' Figure Drawing for All It's Worth, physically or otherwise. Good luck to you today.

Good morning to you, Hyebinpark, and nicest works on your range of the simplest forms and forces of your hands and feet, but I'm not getting too much flow and fluidity of the shorthands of your hands and feet drawings, so how would you kindly like to go for 10 more minutes of 30 second hands and feet poses? As a result, your hands and feet will become somewhat least stiffest and the most boldest, confident and spontaneous in your memories, ideations, and executions for your character concepts, designs, and styles. My hat's off to you, and have the greatest day!!

Good evening, Evils Master, and welcome back aboard again, but how are you doing tonight? I too, am a student, so I don't know if my advice could be any helpful, but I'm giving it away anyway.

Great job on rendering your forces, forms, spaces, and relationships of your ungulate rhino. That's a mighty great job you have done on balancing your controls and understanding of your elements and principles of drawing, but they mostly don't look or seem anymore confident yet. How would you like to loosen up your dominant and non-dominant shoulders with 10 minutes of 2 minute multi-toed mammals, also flipped vertically?

Fact, if you flip the image vertically, while you're drawing it, then you can actually get a much better idea on observing and perceiving your design elements and principles of gestures, using your right side of your brain, meanwhile you can and shall push the action and motion of your organic shapes much stronger. For most inspiration, please pick up a copy of Ken Hultgren’s Book on Animal Drawing. This can help you out on understanding animation action and mood and structures. My hat's off to you, and may you find this book very useful and encouraging.

Welcome aboard, Starberry Kitty, I'm Polyvios, and I love to learn how to do drawing fundamentals, as applied to art, animation, and cartooning. To learn even more about animation drawing fundamentals, please look at this link by clicking here. See you later.

Nicest job on your range of the lightest and loosest lines of action and rhythm, hey_amine. Very greatest job indeed. Yet still, I'm not totally getting enough of the loosest and lightest lines of action yet in terms of forces, spaces and forms. How would like to free up your dominant hand with 1 hour of 1 minute 55 second quickest pose sketches? (3600s/115s=about 31 quickest and loosest line poses)

115 x 3=345 360-345=15 150-115=32

The explanation behind this littlest bit of critique is as a result, your lines will become the most lightest and loosest in your shapes and spaces and forms, which could and would be your next goal, then bring it on. For even most inspiration, please look into the Bridgman Life Drawing book online at Amazon here.

My hat's off to you, and may this have been totally helpful and practical.

Good evening, Pennyberyl, and welcome aboard. I'm Polyvios, I'm fine and how are you doing this evening? Say, you're doing a really fine job on quickly sketching out your figures, hands, feet, faces, and expressions. Please do kindly keep up the totally great work ethic. But, if your time limit for each of your sketches was 2 minutes, then your quick bold power in your lines seem a bit too stilted for my tastes. How would you like to loosen up your hands with 30 more minutes of 1 minute poses of figures, hands, feet, faces and expressions?

The arguement behind this critique is because you could and should be really and completely holistic in your approach to drawing attitudes and poses. For most details, please look into the Mike Mattesi drawing books on Forces and some gesture drawings from Pinterest and more drawing tutorials on YouTube.

My hat's off to you, and let's hope they've encouraged you so much.

• Polyvios Animations edited this post on March 17, 2023 3:00am. Reason: Add “my”

Top of the night to you, Ash, and welcome to Line of Action. I'm Polyvios, and how my we help you? Say, I love the loose, sketchy, but confident line quality and line-making in your quick poses to date. But, I'm not getting enough of the confidence but control in your graphic shapes, and forms, and the lines. How would you like to try out our interactive drawing tutorial here on our website? Which you can click here please.

In order to do this learn-to-draw tutorial, then you can get a good idea on how to capture action, mood, and form in your gesture poses in anything. If you're curious about animation gesture drawing, please be sure to look into these following animator showreels (demo reels).

Art Babbitt:(Disney, WB, UPA, H-B, Williams)

Ken Harris(WB, Chuck Jones, Richard Williams)

Eric Goldberg (Williams, Grillo, Pizzazz, Disney, WB)

With these reels for you in mind, then you can study these vids frame by frame with the . and , keys to move frames forth and back, because you will get to study these animators' techniques, not to mention the fact that these older guys had work for Dick Williams in the UK. 🇬🇧 If you can study and study and study these reels, you can apply these to your animation gestures, so please don't be discouraged, for these things take time to develop, so if you want much faster results, then you could and shall treat these videos as you would your references. Hope these things have been completely and totally encouraging. Good night now.

• Polyvios Animations edited this post on March 14, 2023 6:50pm. Reason: No time for explanations

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Good afternoon, Mar, and welcome aboard to our online drawing tool. How do you do? Say, I think you are doing a more finer job on showcasing your range of action and acting in your human poses and gestures with as way much fewer lines as possible. Very, very greater job so please keep on pushing your envelope by getting better at sketching out livelier quick sketches.

Critique, I think and feel that all of the poses don't seem too sufficiently looser, lighter, longer, larger, and livelier yet enough. How would you like to do 30 minutes of 30 second scribblier drawn dynamic poses a day for 31 days? The reason why you could and would and should do this suggestion is because, it can make all of your dynamic gesture sketches a lot lesser than stiffer, and furthermore, more dynamic, raw-er, and vital-er. For most details, please look into some Force books by Mike Mattessi and the Walt Stanchfield books, and the Eric Goldberg animation reel, to study his scenes frame-by-frame, by drawing them, drawing by drawing, exposure by exposure. It's totally worth a shot. Look.

Good luck to you, for they could and would be totally helpful to you.

• Polyvios Animations edited this post on March 9, 2023 8:52pm. Reason: Clarifying

Good evening, Blankminded, and welcome to Line of Action. I'm Polyvios, and how are you doing at bedtime? Say, I'm too ignorant when it comes to "aphantasia," but I know a thing or two about that thing. You know what I do when I cope with my aphantasia? I gather as much reference material to diversify and expand my visual library, by taking pictures and texts of what I see and how I see in my books, physical or otherwise, with my iPad's or iPhone's cameras, to add to my collections. The reason why is that I can collect them into my albums to dupe, rotate, and such to see them with newer and different eyes. It's certainly and completely and totally worth a try, don't you think? For further info, here is the most informational and inspirational link right here, and here. Let's all hope they've been completely and positively and posolutely useful, informative, helpful, but yet, encouraging and inspiring. Good night, and see ya.

Good evening, Kly Kuu, and welcome aboard, and how are you doing tonight? Say, you're do a mighty, powerful finer job on your broader strokes in terms of forces, your spaces, and your relationships, in addition to being paired with your screenshots of our nude figure model photos. Please do, do keep up your greater march of progress.

Furthermore, as I can frankly see in your quick observations, they most all don't appear too lively, vital, and energetic enough yet. Please why don't you free up your hands, elbows, or shoulders with 15 minutes of 30 second scribblier attitudes? (30 more nuder scribbles) But if you scribble your warm-ups out of the way, then your anatomy will become even more cartoon-like and even more caricatured than you're totally used to, so that your animation drawings will be on the right track. For most info, please look into this video below.

Hope this helps you out so, so, ever very much. Good night.

Good evening, Drab Green Rabbit, and welcome back, and how are you doing tonight? Say, I think you're doing a mighty powerful fine job on your gesture drawings in terms of gestures (forces), and in terms of sillos, and in terms of relationships.(proportions and angles) Yup, I agree with your drawings being stiff, because of not having enough time for warm-ups. Which reminds me, when I went to my second figure drawing session last Tuesday evening at Lynn Arts.

Yet so, we learned that it's nothing short of important for all of us to invest in enough time to warm-up with really quick sketches starting with 3 minutes all the way down to 1 second. The argument is because, it can and will help you need and want to constantly polish up your myelin, or muscle memory as we like to call.

'Practice doesn't make perfect, practice makes progress and myelin, and progress and myelin make perfect

Daniel Coyle, The Little Book of Talent

Let's hope this thing and more have been completely and totally useful, helpful, and educational in your true adventure in self-improvement.

Nicer job, Jollyspices, nicer work on your gestures, forces and forms, but let's see you draw even more funnier flows in your gestures and lines and shapes. How would you love to lose all of your uptight rigidity of the forces and forms with 40 more minutes of 2 minute gesture poses? As a result, it can and will make your poses less straighter and merely literal, but to make your shapes a lot more bigger, broader, and incredibly funnier and hilarious in terms of energy and vitality. For most details, please look into the 2 Walt Stanchfield ebooks on Amazon.com. My hat's off to you.

Good evening, Yunfair, and welcome aboard to Line of Action, and I'm Polyvios and how are you doing tonight? Say, great job on your range of motion and spaces and relationships.(proportions and angles) Please keep up the great work.

However, when it comes to a constructive, not a criticism, but a critique, I feel and think that the bones and muscles don't look or seem too fluid and flowing enough to me. How would you love to free up your range of action and gestures with 65 minutes of 5 minute sketches of nudes and non-nudes, using only your non-dominant hand, using the vertical flips, then the horizontal flip? The argument behind that constructive critique is because of two reasons: First of all, is to help you caricature your observations in figures and anything else, and second to help your think in terms of the longer and larger lines and shapes in your bodies and lines of action and rhythm. For even more info, please look into Volumes 1 and 2 of Walt Stanchfield's Drawn, and Draw from the Artist Within now available on Amazon. Hope these have been completely and totally useful.