10min 9/6/2018

10 minutes, graphite, 9/6/2018 I stopped drawing completely for 3 years to focus on learning to program and learning to dance. I'm finally picking up my pencil again and relearning what I lost :) this is my first real sketch in all of that time. It's obvious to me I've got a lot more practice ahead of me!

Dreas2107 September 12, 2018 1:30am

Start with a basic line of action and try using basic shapes to compose the body.

Kim - Site admin September 12, 2018 1:35am

Thanks, that's definitely how I start. :)

Line September 12, 2018 9:40am

Hey Kim, for giving up drawing 3 years I have to say that I can still see the form of the figure peeking out from under a bit of rust :). It looks like your proportions are out of whack just a bit, were the legs foreshortened in the image? I usually do this thing where I make limbs coming toward me - longer and not coming toward me. Is the reference a ballerina child? I have severe issues drawing children myself.

Kim - Site admin September 12, 2018 5:16pm

Thanks! No, the reference was that woman draping herself off the edge of the couch and holding up a pearl necklace. She is a bit foreshortened, mostly in the way her torso is leaning away. I'm glad any kind of figure is still visible!

Line September 12, 2018 5:41pm

Ah I see, well I can see you construct and use your lineweights to separate forms which is great. We all have different processes but when I draw longer poses I usually tend to get general proportions down, stop and check them and then build more ontop of them. I struggle thinking during drawing which usually makes me screw the proportions anyway but it's what I try to keep consistent. x)

Kim - Site admin September 12, 2018 6:58pm

I'll give that a shot in my next go-round! I'm not even sure what my process is anymore these days, I need to re-try things and discovered what works for me now.

Polyvios Animations July 20, 2023 5:50pm

Greatest job on your range of weightiest lines of your figures. I think your lines of action is optimized at their most efficient, but I feel that these lines of action and rhythm would and should be the most work done on all of their elasticity and plasticity of the graphic lines. Why don't you kindly start off with the crudest gestures, followed by the lines of action, and later the lines of balance?

As a result, if you try out this most constructive criticism in my views, then you can and shall be able to draw your quickest figures with the least monotonous lines, but with the most constrasty line weights in your figure pose, therefore making your poses the least stiffest but stilted, therefore the most spontaneous, liveliest, but most solidest. For even most info, kindly be able to look into the 2 books by Walt Stanchfield and Don Hahn, in Kindle or physical book, or digi PDF. My hat's off to you, and thank you.