https://imgur.com/a/tbEfw5o
I think your simplification of the body is excellent. How much mileage would you say you have in figure drawing? How long were these poses? I assumed they were 3-5 minute poses. Good job overall.
I dont have that many critiques overall for the figures you submitted but I will say you should be more aware of how line weight affects the gesture.
https://imgur.com/a/yzYcBQd
For example, On the gesture I provided above I feel like there is alot of confusion on where the poses weight is shifting which leads to it looking stiff. The way I found a way to exaggerate and find how to push the weight more was through intersecting points throughout the figure. Most of the figure is leaning down and the rest of the body follows along in reception. ( EX) shoulders, pevlis, and left leg. ) The torso and shoulders usually dictates much of where the weight of the pose will go. Before tackling a gesture, try to imagine what way the body would fall if you removed one of the legs. Would it fall to th right? the left? would is stay stationary? Deciphering these small details early on can lead to you having a succesful drawing that is able to envelop that sense of movement, which is the main goal with figure drawing.
https://imgur.com/a/Sv2WxY9
In the next drawing, I find the major issue to be a lack of line confidence, I can see alot of chicken scratch lines and lines that dont connect. It is really interesting because you were able to get it down perfectly with this drawing. (
https://imgur.com/a/6nJHWMX ) This drawing is objectively more appealing than the other because of your use of lines is vastly different. You used too many curves in one compared to the other which is why the body ends up looking balloony. ( EX :
https://imgur.com/a/vEWehRe )
It is kinda hard to explain this over text but there are some great books that go over the issue with using too many straight lines and too many curves respectively.
One book I can recommend is FORCE : Mattesi and Micheal Hampton. They go over in depth alot of subjects regarding adding life to your figures. FORCE is more focused on gesture while Mattesi focuses on construction and building a critical eye for simplifiying the body.
-
https://www.amazon.com/Force-Dynamic-Drawing-Animators-Second/dp/0240808452
-
https://www.amazon.com/Figure-Drawing-Invention-Michael-Hampton/dp/0615272819
https://imgur.com/a/635gUPs
Many of the same issues are present in this drawing as the other one I mentioned with you using too many curves in the drawing. Drawing muscles and adding fat is hard. What I used to try to understand the pose better was through negative space. (
https://imgur.com/a/tj3VAEA ) I blocked in the areas around the figure instead to try to understand and decipher if I was getting closer to my goal. By adding in these blocks I can quickly tell if the size of the arms and body is proportionate without wasting time. For example, I used this method repeatedly on all the figures to tell if the spacing between the legs was too wide or not. Aswell as on the arm to tell the distane from the leg to the arm holding the stick.
Trying to learn how to draw the human body is extremely hard, we are all learning together at our own paces. I think you are going in the right direction. I would definitely reccomend getting those books or trying to ask for more critiques.
