Forum posts by Vvalverde

It's really great to get a response from you Literally Mom, your minute gesture drawings blew me away in the amount of shapes and form you were able to accomplish. I'm also surprised you commented on the shadows, I've never thought that I've done them well as I think they look relatively flat and don't provide that much of the form, I guess I'm just bad with the gradient.

Today's practice.

Any and all critique would be appreciated.

Today and yesterday's practice.

Any and all critique would be very much appreciated.

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Today's Practice. Oof, was pretty much on autopilot the whole time and wasn't focused.

Any and all criticism is appreciated.

Today's practice. Eh... I liked how the 25 min came out... but at some point I put the timer on pause to do something and forgot to turn it back on for a while... But on the other hand I did try to measure things out with the head as a landmark, as suggested, and it kind of worked out. Sometimes I was sure I got the right measurements but then I looked at the drawing and it felt small, so I took some libertys. Eh, probably my fault.

Any and all critique would be appreciated.

• Vvalverde edited this post on June 28, 2019 5:35pm.

Today's practice. Got to use those basic shapes (have actually been really helpful, especially when the hips and chest robobean do relatively parallel the gesture line drawn).

Any and all critique would be appreciated.

• Vvalverde edited this post on June 27, 2019 5:43pm.

Sure definetly, but they're able to skip that process because they are able to imagine those shapes in their mind after having drawn them so many times. And even then, they still use some tricks like finding the gesture of the finger tips so that they don't have to measure out each length but rather just make sure they hook up from the base of the hand to the tip.

• Vvalverde edited this post on June 27, 2019 5:36pm.

Hey, it's great that you're getting started! I'm on the same boat as you that I've been off again on again to get better, for the last couple of weeks I've been doing daily drawings M-F. To make sure you get started right and have an idea of how to practice I recommend looking up Proko on Youtube. I've watched several of their videos over the years without really practicing and have recently also started going over them again and boy are they helpful! Looking forward to seeing your growth!

Today's practice. Not much to say. I didn't feel that good about the lower timed gestures, I forgot to use basic shapes. However, when I used the basic shapes for the 5 and up gesture poses they helped very much, I'm specifically happy with the forshortening of the torso in the 10 min one.

Just form what I can see, it appears that you are getting the general shapes right but it's lacking structure What I mean by this is that, from what I can tell, you're jumping right into the contour without establishing the structure with basic shapes. If there is no structure then this results in some of the fingers being shifted off from where they should be and the proportions being slightly off one another.

Today's practice. I went over some more proko videos and really took into account how I'm not using basic shapes. So, this time around when I just focused on getting those basic shapes. For the most part it went well until the 25 min one. I really tried to take my time on that one, measuring and what not, but I wasn't able to properly blend it into getting the gesture so I feel it ended up looking too stiff (I also desperately need to get better at shading, I think the problem is that other than my lack of pen pressure, I use too big of a pencil size that I constantly go over so it ends up making accidental shading that I then need to erase).

Any and all criticism would be highly appreciated.

P.S if you could specify which day you're critiquing that would help.

Today's practice. I really felt the gesture today, specifically with the lower time ones. I ended up finishing most of the 30 sec ones with time to spare, which caught me of guard. However, if it isn't obvious enough, I struggled with the 25 minute one, not necessarily in the gesture but just the face. It just ended up looking cartoony and I wasn't quite sure what to do since the face was generally small in the reference and the face shadows were pretty flat. Does anyone have any tips for how to deal with face stuff when it's generally small or lighted flat? Any critique is highly appreciated.

For today's practice I luckily got several contoted poses to practice with. In general I tried to just find the largest shapes I could in the pose and then fill it in. I'm particularly happy with the 10 min pose as I feel that even though the pose is an odd bend, it still feels dynamic due to the pose looking like it's in control of its posture and the way gravity impacts the model. Also, how do you all draw quick dreads? I just kind of used a thicker sized tip and it didn't quite work, heh.

I'm starting to reach the point where I'm worried that I'm not progressing. I notice in previous drawings the similar gesture of the same photo and that it turned out better in the previous version, making me worry that I'm in fact not retaining what I've learned and, in turn, regressing. The only thing I feel I might be getting slightly better on are feet and hands, but even then it's a mixed bag.

Regardless any critique would be encouraged and appreciated.

How much time do you give yourself with each gesture drawing? In general, I like the wireframe thing you've got going and I see that you've started to add some meat to it, hoping to see when you start adding the simple contour to your gesture drawings.