Messages du forum par Polyvios Animations

Top of the night to you, Ash, and welcome to Line of Action. I'm Polyvios, and how my we help you? Say, I love the loose, sketchy, but confident line quality and line-making in your quick poses to date. But, I'm not getting enough of the confidence but control in your graphic shapes, and forms, and the lines. How would you like to try out our interactive drawing tutorial here on our website? Which you can click here please.

In order to do this learn-to-draw tutorial, then you can get a good idea on how to capture action, mood, and form in your gesture poses in anything. If you're curious about animation gesture drawing, please be sure to look into these following animator showreels (demo reels).

Art Babbitt:(Disney, WB, UPA, H-B, Williams)

Ken Harris(WB, Chuck Jones, Richard Williams)

Eric Goldberg (Williams, Grillo, Pizzazz, Disney, WB)

With these reels for you in mind, then you can study these vids frame by frame with the . and , keys to move frames forth and back, because you will get to study these animators' techniques, not to mention the fact that these older guys had work for Dick Williams in the UK. 🇬🇧 If you can study and study and study these reels, you can apply these to your animation gestures, so please don't be discouraged, for these things take time to develop, so if you want much faster results, then you could and shall treat these videos as you would your references. Hope these things have been completely and totally encouraging. Good night now.

• Polyvios Animations edited this post on March 14, 2023 6:50pm. Reason: No time for explanations

I'd love to join.

Good afternoon, Mar, and welcome aboard to our online drawing tool. How do you do? Say, I think you are doing a more finer job on showcasing your range of action and acting in your human poses and gestures with as way much fewer lines as possible. Very, very greater job so please keep on pushing your envelope by getting better at sketching out livelier quick sketches.

Critique, I think and feel that all of the poses don't seem too sufficiently looser, lighter, longer, larger, and livelier yet enough. How would you like to do 30 minutes of 30 second scribblier drawn dynamic poses a day for 31 days? The reason why you could and would and should do this suggestion is because, it can make all of your dynamic gesture sketches a lot lesser than stiffer, and furthermore, more dynamic, raw-er, and vital-er. For most details, please look into some Force books by Mike Mattessi and the Walt Stanchfield books, and the Eric Goldberg animation reel, to study his scenes frame-by-frame, by drawing them, drawing by drawing, exposure by exposure. It's totally worth a shot. Look.

Good luck to you, for they could and would be totally helpful to you.

• Polyvios Animations edited this post on March 9, 2023 8:52pm. Reason: Clarifying

Good evening, Blankminded, and welcome to Line of Action. I'm Polyvios, and how are you doing at bedtime? Say, I'm too ignorant when it comes to "aphantasia," but I know a thing or two about that thing. You know what I do when I cope with my aphantasia? I gather as much reference material to diversify and expand my visual library, by taking pictures and texts of what I see and how I see in my books, physical or otherwise, with my iPad's or iPhone's cameras, to add to my collections. The reason why is that I can collect them into my albums to dupe, rotate, and such to see them with newer and different eyes. It's certainly and completely and totally worth a try, don't you think? For further info, here is the most informational and inspirational link right here, and here. Let's all hope they've been completely and positively and posolutely useful, informative, helpful, but yet, encouraging and inspiring. Good night, and see ya.

Good evening, Kly Kuu, and welcome aboard, and how are you doing tonight? Say, you're do a mighty, powerful finer job on your broader strokes in terms of forces, your spaces, and your relationships, in addition to being paired with your screenshots of our nude figure model photos. Please do, do keep up your greater march of progress.

Furthermore, as I can frankly see in your quick observations, they most all don't appear too lively, vital, and energetic enough yet. Please why don't you free up your hands, elbows, or shoulders with 15 minutes of 30 second scribblier attitudes? (30 more nuder scribbles) But if you scribble your warm-ups out of the way, then your anatomy will become even more cartoon-like and even more caricatured than you're totally used to, so that your animation drawings will be on the right track. For most info, please look into this video below.

Hope this helps you out so, so, ever very much. Good night.

Good evening, Drab Green Rabbit, and welcome back, and how are you doing tonight? Say, I think you're doing a mighty powerful fine job on your gesture drawings in terms of gestures (forces), and in terms of sillos, and in terms of relationships.(proportions and angles) Yup, I agree with your drawings being stiff, because of not having enough time for warm-ups. Which reminds me, when I went to my second figure drawing session last Tuesday evening at Lynn Arts.

Yet so, we learned that it's nothing short of important for all of us to invest in enough time to warm-up with really quick sketches starting with 3 minutes all the way down to 1 second. The argument is because, it can and will help you need and want to constantly polish up your myelin, or muscle memory as we like to call.

'Practice doesn't make perfect, practice makes progress and myelin, and progress and myelin make perfect

Daniel Coyle, The Little Book of Talent

Let's hope this thing and more have been completely and totally useful, helpful, and educational in your true adventure in self-improvement.

Nicer job, Jollyspices, nicer work on your gestures, forces and forms, but let's see you draw even more funnier flows in your gestures and lines and shapes. How would you love to lose all of your uptight rigidity of the forces and forms with 40 more minutes of 2 minute gesture poses? As a result, it can and will make your poses less straighter and merely literal, but to make your shapes a lot more bigger, broader, and incredibly funnier and hilarious in terms of energy and vitality. For most details, please look into the 2 Walt Stanchfield ebooks on Amazon.com. My hat's off to you.

Good evening, Yunfair, and welcome aboard to Line of Action, and I'm Polyvios and how are you doing tonight? Say, great job on your range of motion and spaces and relationships.(proportions and angles) Please keep up the great work.

However, when it comes to a constructive, not a criticism, but a critique, I feel and think that the bones and muscles don't look or seem too fluid and flowing enough to me. How would you love to free up your range of action and gestures with 65 minutes of 5 minute sketches of nudes and non-nudes, using only your non-dominant hand, using the vertical flips, then the horizontal flip? The argument behind that constructive critique is because of two reasons: First of all, is to help you caricature your observations in figures and anything else, and second to help your think in terms of the longer and larger lines and shapes in your bodies and lines of action and rhythm. For even more info, please look into Volumes 1 and 2 of Walt Stanchfield's Drawn, and Draw from the Artist Within now available on Amazon. Hope these have been completely and totally useful.

Hello, Evils Master, and welcome to our drawing tool, and how are you doing tonight? Great job on your first ever attempt to drawing your elk, but I'm still not getting enough of that holistic quality of that elk yet. How would you like to loosen up your hands of 6 minutes of 2 minute mammal sketches, all flipped horizontally? As a result, your perceptions of mammals and elks will become less stiffer and the most dynamic, fluid and flowing than ever, and the make your perceptions look or seem a lot more easier. For most details, please look into the Betty Edwards books, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, and Drawing on the Artist Within, they can help you out on the psycholigical aspects on perceptual learning in art and design. Good luck to you.

Nice work on rendering the gesture style of your scenic backgrounds, but I'm not getting enough of the looser, more flowing style of the perspective. How would you like to do 30 minutes of 5 minute scenes, using your non-dominant hand? The reason why is because you could first start out your environments with your lines of action and rhythm, while you go for more dynamic shots.

For more details, look into Vanishing Point book on perspective.

Good luck to you and your progress.

@Khj2005413 You're welcome.

Nicest works on your mannequinization, Kh, but I'm not getting enough organic shapes and forms. How would you please kindly love to push your largest shapes and forms with 30 minutes of 2 minute studies or warm-ups? As a result, your poses will become the least mathematical and the most fluid and flowing of the lines or shapes or forms. My hat's off to you.

Good morning, Pink, and welcome to Line of Action. I'm Polyvios, and how do you do?
Say, what kind of sketches are you working on today? We would love to see them, so that you can, shall, and will use your sketches to document your artistic progress.

But, when it comes to some sketching tips for your hands, in order to quickly sketch your hands in 30 seconds, I'd love to suggest beginning with a line of action, like you would with any drawing or sketch or picture. The explanation is as a result, your attitudes, forces, and/or movement will become even more clear and definable to your audience. For more curiosity, please check out our link here.

Let's hope this little suggestion had helped you out even more.

• Polyvios Animations edited this post on February 20, 2023 4:53pm. Reason: Reason and clarification for positive critique

Nicest job on our gestures done quickly, Khj2005413, those are mighty terrific indeed! Please keep on pushing your gestures far in your next session. I think it's perfectly normal, as King1 says, to have all your lines not as precisely flowing as we want them to, so there's no need to be down on yourself. Practice makes progress, but progress makes myelin, but myelin makes perfect.

When it comes to constructive critisim, here's where they stand. I'm not getting enough of those loose and light gestural lines. Would you please free up your brains and hands with 10 minutes of 29 second quick sketches with our custom timer? As a result, your lines, as I've implied will become the most exact in their loose and light touch to your figures' forces. For more info and details, please look into a Mattesi book on Figure drawing and some Youtube videos online. Let's hope they have been helpful, encouraging, and educational.

Good eveniung, Khj, and great job on showing off your range of gesture, in addition, your intuition of the forms and spaces and relationships. Please don't let your frustrations get you down. Please be patient with yourself so much.

However, I'm not getting enough of those caricatures of those poses and gestures and energies of those drawn poses. How would you like to do 5 minutes of 30 second quick warm-up sketches? The reason is because is of two things: First of all, to make your mark making much more expressive and exaggerated, and second of all, to get more accustomed to the motion of things in life, rather than their overall appearance.

Here's a quote form Walt Disney.

A good many of the men misinterpret the idea of studying the actual motion-they think it is our purpose to exactly duplicate these things--this misconception should be cleared up once and for all. I definitely feel that we cannot do fantastic things based on the real unless we first know the real.

The Art of Walt Disney

But, the real meaning is, we cannot pay any of our attention of the actual anatomical detail unless we first and foremost push or maintain the broad gesture of anything.

Please do take this bit of a request with a grain of salt.