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@AnnaArtista

Hello AnnaArtista!

I appreciate the compliments and critique coming from an art teacher! Thank you for sharing and passing the knoweledge of the professor, the three moveable masses make a lot of sense. I took your advice and other ppl's advice here in my recent drawing sessions. Drawing those three locations really does capture the essence of the pose, when I put down those three locations, things just click and I understand the pose better, everything comes easy after that, even understanding how those three masses interact clicks, if the torso is pinching, twisting, stretching and stuff like that. Ovals don't seem so scary anymore either hehe. I do have a little trouble figuring out the proportion of the ribcage and pelvis but I am figuring it out. The anatomy study where u draw the three moveable masses from a skeleton sounds great.

Thank you for welcoming me on the journey of human figure drawing. I'll definitely continue sharing but probably not as frequently. Maybe I'll do 1 month updates. I like going back to my old drawings and see how much I have improved, especially on those rare occassions where I feel frustrated.

@Swen Thanks a lot for the compliments and critique Swen! I'll definitely work on understanding of the functionality of the body as it seems like the thing most of the people pointed out. :D

Hello Madamallow!

Thanks a lot for the compliments! You saying that my anatomy is already looking solid and that I'm ready to start working on some details make me feel great since I haven't started studying anatomy yet and your words give me confidence to start diving into it. :D I agree on what you said about 2-5 min gestures, that you can take ur time to make sure the proportions are right, that's my fav part about 2-5 min gestures and why I like doing them.

And yeah, I realise my images are a little hard to see, I should've put more effort into making them more visible. The camscanner app you mentioned sounds awesome and I'll definitely check it out in the future and use it if I share my drawings again. Thanks for telling me about it! :D

Cheers!

• Noddson edited this post on September 19, 2018 10:18pm.

Hello Sanne!

Thank you for a warm welcome, compliments and critique!

I've thought about what you said about ribcage and pelvis and I think I understand and see what you are saying. I have also noticed this in my gesture drawings, especially in the ones of the human figure from the front or the side view. I have been kind of stubbornly sticking to my stiff bean with the pelvis and ribcage connected as you said. I think I know how I'll fix this with the article you sent me and your explenation of ribcage and pelvis.

I guess I'll start by drawing an action line, make an oval for the ribcage and then a seperated circle for the pelvis. Then I'll make more lines to show how the pelvis and ribcage interract, to show if the body is pinching, stretching, tilting. I suppose that would fix it and show more flexibility and structure in my drawings. The torso is very tricky tho right? :D I'll also have to start practicing drawing ovals for the ribcage, it is mostly the reason why I am drawing the torso the way I am, I am just bad at ovals, especially the ones at an angle haha. I've been filling up pages with circles but I guess it's time to fill them with ovals too.

Also thanks for pointing out the scratchiness on my lines. I guess it's a bad habit I started to develop, funnily enough, when I started drawing gestures, I tried my hardest to go with just one line and now I go ,,scritchy scratchy'' as you said. :P I don't know why..I'd make excuses that it helps my muscle memory to go over the line a couple of times and adjusting it but now it is just becoming a bad habit. I like the look of it for some reason too tho.. haha. I'll try to keep that in mind in the future too.

I like your explanation about about time frames for gesture drawings and I totally agree and makes me feel better. There is no need to obsess over the time frame I guess. Depends on what you are doing, what ur goal is and what u are trying to practice on with an excercise as you said. I suppose those 30 second gesture practices are great for capturing motions of ppl while sitting in a park and drawing for example. 5-15 min challenge sounds great too. :D

Thanks again for the tips and kind words!

Hello! I have just registered and I am happy to join the community!

So it has been a month now that I started to learn to draw. I have been drawing every day for about an hour or so, mostly gesture drawings of humans. Next to this, I was watching youtube videos and following a book called ,,drawing on the right side of the brain''. I've been slacking on the book kinda, I should really get back to it and finish it so I can start a new book on anatomy or something. Drawing humans well is sort of my goal right now, I heard somewhere that if you can draw humans, you can draw anything pretty much. :P

So yeah, I started with gestures and now I feel somewhat confident to share them and get some critique. I was afraid to show anyone my drawings so far because I was afraid I'd get a false sense of success and ditch drawing..but hopefully I continue haha, I have a good feeling I will, drawing is fun! I feel like it is an okay time to start getting critique too because I feel like it would benefit me in improving a lot.

So here is a link https://imgur.com/a/pEbXqkd to some recent gesture drawings of mine, tell me what you think!

**note: Most of these gesture drawings would take me 2 to 5 minutes, I see a lot of ppl sharing how much time they take on some of their gesture drawings. I honestly like to take more time with my gesture drawings because I still don't feel too comfortable drawing them in a short amount of time, I just feel like those 2-5 minutes are just needed for me atm. I am open for critique about that too tho. :D

• Noddson edited this post on September 18, 2018 6:46am.