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  • #29224

    Good evening, Eliciden, and welcome aboard. How are you doing this evening?

    Greatest job on showing of your range of silhouettes, interior negatives, and action in drawings. Way to go, and kindly keep up your greatest jobs.

    However, I'm not getting enough of your lightest lines where you would kiss the paper, or tablet, at your softest. How would you like to free up your longest and loosest lines with 31 minutes of 1 minute scribbles? (31 scribbles)

    Please don't do this exercise because I suggested you or for any reason, do it because it can make your personality the least stiffest and the most spontaneous, liveliest, and intrinsically motivated in terms of your storytelling and acting sketches for art, cartooning, illustration, and animation.

    "Learn how to think like an artist."

    Stephen Worth

    For most inspiration, look into the Daniel Coyle book on talent, then get the Betty Edwards books on Drawing the Artist Within, and the Right Side of the Brain. Next, get Fun with a Pencil by Loomis. Kindly take these things with the really smallest grain of salt, and we all hope they could help you out by the longest shot.

    #29221

    Good evening, Evils, and welcome aboard. Congratulations on your very first topic posted. And as for your first-ever Imgur drawings, greatest and beautifully greatest job on your very first attempts at gesture drawing or sketching, in terms of drawing movements and silhouettes and spaces. Please do keep up the perfectly greatest works!

    Yet, when it comes to the nitpicking, .......well, here goes nothing: First, those lines are the itchiest, hairiest, and scratchiest I've ever seen. Second of all, your broadest poses don't seem fearless enough to me. Would you like to be all fearless, fiercest, and all ruthless with your lines in movement with your dominant/non-dominant hands with 10 minutes of 1 minute sketches with either hand/elbow/shoulder?

    And as for this, do you know Why? Because if your current goal is to get your drawings and thinkings to be the all-unrigidest, and the most spontaneous, liveliest, and alive, then bring it on! I feel that it's gonna be easy: it's thru squash-and-stretch. For furthest details, be sure to look into the Bridgman figure drawing book, Action! by Ben Caldwell, and 2 PDFs of the Walt Stanchfield books on Archive.org.

    Good luck to you, and whatever you do, please do take these tips and tricks with the smallest grain of salt. Have a nicest evening.

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    #29218

    Hello and good morning, Loiss, and sorry to wake you up, but nicest works on your range of motion, silhouettes and your perception of proportions and angles. Way to go, and keep carrying on your practice.

    But.....I can tell you several things wrong about these figures linked there. First, the lines all seem too hairiest, itchiest, and scratchiest a sight. Second, the boldest silhouette could use a bit more expression, and finally, the angles don't seem to be more powerful enough. How would you like to be more fierce and even more ruthless with your sketches by doing 30 minutes of 2 minute pose sketches? (All flipped horizontally, followed by vertical)

    Because if you can do this practice session of those attitude sketches, you can and shall be able to tap into the right side of your brain. Also, if you work with a faster time limit,(if it doesn't bother you) you should force yourself to think fastest on your feet and to draw and feel your most boldest, confident and powerful. But that's not all, to help you add more sparks of life into your understanding and control of the human gestures and anatomy, so that you could and should render imagined and memories poses.

    But that's not all! For furthest details, on how to cope with even more tighter deadlines, here are some 5 following links:

    Links 1,

    2,

    3,

    4…………,…..

    & 5.

    These advice links are not just for art, cartooning, and animation, they are for just about anything.

    And as for the art books, please be sure to look into the Frank Netter anatomy book, which you would find in the anatomy section, the Bridgman Figure Drawing compilation book, Drawing on the Artist Within by Betty Edwards, and the 2 PDFs of Walt Stanchfield's two books here,…. and here! So please take my suggestions with a really tinier, smaller grain of salt. Hope they can help you constantly improve and innovate with your drawing talent, work ethic, and understanding of movement, as much as they have others. Good night, and keep practicing in the morning..

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    #29207

    Good morning, Maxx, and I must say, your quick poses are totally on the right track and love how much your french curves of the legs flow nicely onto the pelvis of the body. However, the rest of the bodies' flow and rhythm could use a little bit more speed efficiency of the action and power of the exaggeration. Would you kindly free up your shoulders underhanded with 2 hours of 1 minute poses? (120 drawn attitudes)

    The reason why you could execute that suggestion is as a result, your anatomy and gestures will be the least stiffest and the most spontaneous, clearest and alive in the attitudes.

    My hat's off to you and we will hope these help you out the best, have a nice morning.

    #29206

    Greatest works on your march of progress in your 3rd year, Laitochris, and way to go. What I like specifically is how much you've gotten better in your boldest lines of action and rhythm in your quickest sketches, and am I so in love with your Red Riding Hood character illustration. Nicest job on taking most of your time with solidifying of the forms, tones, colors and lines.

    However, I'm still not totally getting enough of your strongest and cartooniest and simplest lines of rhythm and tempo, and the most powerful caricatures in your shapes and forces. Would you like to take yet another whack of doing the 1 hour 30 minutes of 30 second quickest poses of real life poses, anime, and manga characters? As a result, your forces will be the least rigidest and blandest, and the most boldest, gutsiest, and powerful in your cartoon illustrations. If you're totally curious about cartoon sketching, would you care to look into the Action Cartooning book by Ben Caldwell, the 2 Walt Stanchfield PDFs, the Vilppu Drawing Manual PDF, and last but not least, my Pinterest link here. These have tons of influences and inspirations I've collected, then go help yourself out on downloading them all.

    Hope these things have been marvelously helpful and useful.

    #29205

    Good evening, Bitterfitz, and I agree with violet's comment/walls of text here. I highly recommend the books she suggested here, furthermore, go more into the gesture drawing with a timing app like Timer+ for your devices, but I like to have you try out this anatomy book like Anatomy for the Artist by Daniel Carter and Michael Courtney. It's got some very richly illustrated images of bones and muscles, and the instructive text is clear and easy to follow-through.

    As you can see, this book has some highly but generaly useful tips and tricks on drawing figures and anatomies. Not to mention some step by step instructions, great if you need to take them metaphorically, if not literally, especially when you do quick sketches with them. Furthermore, when it comes to timing yourself, it gets you more involved into practicing not just drawings, but also paintings and anything else.

    Hope these things and more have been the most supportive and useful in your current studies. Happy Practicing and good night.

    #29200

    Howdy, Amine! And welcome aboard, I'm Massachusetts native, Polyvios, and how do you do tonight? Thanks for doing a greatest job posting your images for critique. And also, a greatest job on feeling your way thru your organic gestural lines in your figure illustrations. Please keep pushing youself far, then farther, and then farthest.

    Yet, as liveliest and easier to digest as those graphic lines look, but these poses, look too mostly like porcelan dolls, yet they should feel and be like animated cartoon human beings. My littlest request is to get the motion and vitality and feeling going with your hand with drawing 10 minutes of 30 second pose warm-up sketches, by holding your graphite pencil underhanded. Would you do that?

    The reason why you could and should do this littlest request is because of two things. First of all is to spend lesser time erasing your unhappiest accidents, with some happiest ones, and second to not overfixate on the details too much, thus getting the strongest range of exaggeration and caricature and sparks of life in your quick sketches. For more info and details, be sure to look at more pose practice material with this link right here! It's from the oldest John K. Stuff blog. It has tons of info and inspirtation. Please look into this useful and practical weblog for some influences on how to sketch for cartooning and animation and art you can't find in your schools. Please take what opinions John said with the littlest grain of salt.

    Hope you'll find this material completely and totally concrete and useful.

    Polyvios Animations

    P.S.

    Just please do the images for gesture drawing practice!

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    #29195

    Good morning, Lilikamasha, and welcome aboard. How do you do this morning? Greatest job on your perseptions of edges, spaces, relationships, tones, and the gestalt on your most realistic face and expression rendering in graphite, really. Yet, I'm not getting enough of your most caricatured life in your face gesture. How would you like to take a whack at 5 minutes of 30 second scribbles of facial expressions. As a result, your understanding of faces will be the least stiffest and the most dynamic, energetic and vital. For furthest info and inspiration, please check out this link right here, and it can totally help you.

    Have the happiest newer year.

    #29188

    Most fantastic efforts you've put into your memorized figure, fnibbit. However, when in doubt, please refresh yourself by studying and memorizing with the reference actually in front of you. The reason why you could and should do this suggestion is because, it's a lot harder to draw anything from memory if your memory is not your sharpest. But don't give up, if you learn so much from your model, then your memories will become their sharpest with most practice as you could get.

    For more details, look at this vid below.

    Hope this advice is extremely helpful and beneficial.

    #29187

    Nicest work on your anatomy, Zenlaeth, but I'm not getting enough of the cartooniest and exaggerated flow in your drawings. Please would you free up your range of action and animation drawing with 30 minutes of 1 minute poses? (30 drawn figures) As a result, you'd be able to look at the models the hardest than the average person as you could and draw out the humor and feeling from the gestures. And while you're at it, please click on this link right here, for you to bookmark and download all the images from.

    Hope these pieces of advice will be the most important and pivotal to you and your progress and myelin.

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    #29158

    Welcome aboard, thesuperdupersayian, how my I help you? Excellent work on your solid forms and perspective, and proportions, and subtle foreshortening.

    Yet, most of the line qualities all look itchy or seem itchier, and hairiest and scratchiest to me, as they appear to have been drawn too tighter in the handwriting position. May I sugggest that you should and could do 5 minutes of 30 second figures, using the underhand position?

    It is for two things: 1) To get loose and confident strokes. 2) To not get too, too bogged down on the smaller and most insignificant details. For furthest information, I recommend The Art of Basic Drawing from Walter Foster. Hope this has been totally and genuinely beneficial.

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    #29157

    Good morning, Zhaoxiong and welcome aboard to our website, Line of Action! I'm Polyvios, Polyvios Animaitons and how are you doing this morning? I love how much of the broader strokes and lines of gestures of strength and ambition of the hands and all of the feet. However, I feel they seem a bit farthest too rigid in the exaggeration. Kindly satirize the hands and feet even most with 1 hour of 30 second scribbles of various appendages with our custom timer? As a result, your poses and gestures will be the least weakest and the most strongest with the caricatures of hands and feet and shoes and crocs and sandals and sneakers that you can find around your house, apartment, online, or whatever. For complete details, please be sure to look into the Andrew Loomis book of heads and hands and the Nicolaides book and the Edwards books.

    Hope this has helps you out the most and have the nicest day!!

    #29156

    Agreed, but I really didn't mean to frustrate Verdant in any way, but I wasn't proud of it, as I had been completely and criminally misunderstood, until then, I'll just drop it for now.

    #29151

    FYI, Kim, confidentially, I think it was Verdant Cole, and please tell him that I'm sorry to offend Cole, though I wasn't trying to offend his ego, but I was only trying to constantly reassure his budding drawing talent. Tomorrow, please convince him to unblock me in the morning, if he needs to and if he really wants to. I was only ultimatly trying to help out myself and moreso, my peers online. Good night, Kim.

    Polyvios Christoforos

    #29146

    Ok Kim, here is the here, and this image in case you didn't see this link.

    You see what I'm saying and do you see what I mean?

    I don't know, but I could've been blocked by somebody, for no good reason.

    Have a nice afternoon and love you.