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My 30s practices I did for last week and this week. It's hard to keep up with gesture drawings because of school. I tend to just collapse right after school ends :') I need to stop this bad habit so I can do more (T-T o)

I couldn't upload as often because of school now, but I'll still to keep up with my daily practices, gotta keep working hard TuT

Here's one where I tried to focus on the shapes rather than the outline itself, it was pretty difficult and I can't seem to figure out how people manage to get their shapes so smooth but mines ends up wonky.

Some 1-2 min facial drawings, sorry for the poor lighting in this one

30 seconds figure drawing, trying to do more concise curves

Yesterday's 30s facial expression gesture drawings. I'll do more lengthier gesture drawings in the future :')

• Koolydragon edited this post on October 15, 2018 8:01am.

Thanks for the feedback!! For the hands, I'll try to focus less on the outline and more of the gesture. Since it's only 30s so I tend to end up just capturing the outlines of the hands instead TuT. But for the line of action, I did do it for the bodies but it usually ends up being the spine of the figure so you probably thought it was the outline. Just so you know :'D

Going to make this so I'll force myself to start doing it more regularly (`-`)

• Kim edited this post on October 12, 2018 4:16pm. Reason: Moving stater images into main post

I think I'm somehow finally getting how to draw longer figures.

In the past, I didn't really consider how I should approach drawing the figure and would just jump straight to it by drawing the head and eventually the rest. The end result is an unproportionate mess lol. It started to turn out much much better after I roughly mark and sketch out the body proportions and sizes and paid more attention to the curves on the body while fitting it with the gesture, it got better :'')

My old 10-minute gesture drawings probably did not turn out well because last time, I did too many 30s gesture drawings and that caused me to tackle it the same way as I did with my 10min gesture drawings. I think it also got to do with drawing it one at a time and instead of drawing a bunch in one go in one canvas, or else it ended up being a mess :'D. The brush size too also helped.

Here are some I did today and stuff I did last time not too long ago, about a month and in between that I rarely did any, apart from doing it sometimes during art club which I had to do it. I'm still pretty surprised at the difference o-o

my old ones
newer ones I did today and yesterday

What do you guys think? If you guys got any other feedback on my drawings, I'd like to hear it! Thank you :''D

• Koolydragon edited this post on September 22, 2018 10:30am.

Thanks Swen for the advice.

That's one of the biggest problems I have, I think it mostly because I don't know where to start or try to piece the various anatomy parts together. I tried learning anatomy for a while and I started out by memorizing the various muscles on the body and drawing the muscle layout from anatomy books but I never really know how to apply it in my own drawings when the poses are more dynamic.

I guess I have taken the wrong approach and should have worked more on real-life photos instead :''D

Do you have any tips on analyzing the human figure? or to get a better understanding of the human body?

Hi Sanna and thanks for the comment ^^

I think I want to practice drawing figures that are more accurate and detailed but not stiff. I always have this problem wherein the longer poses, the drawing starts get stiffer and not as flowy as the 30s ones.

https://imgur.com/LpeSKb6

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Hi guys, I've been doing this for some time nearly 4 years actually and I would like to know how to improve myself more. Even though I have done this for a long time, I'm still scared that I'm doing it in a wrong manner so if you guys got any suggestions I would appreciate it ^^

Here are some 30seconds gesture drawings I did. The top half are humans and the second are animals. I rarely did animal figure drawings so I had a harder time, I didn't know how to approach the animals' portion so I just used my initials gut feelings and drew the general gesture lines before forming the overall figure. Is this a good way?

• Sanne edited this post on September 19, 2018 6:42am. Reason: Cleaned up broken images