Day 2
© 2024 ShadonisThere was a recommendation regarding seeing another site for guides on how to continue my gesture work. I followed that guideline and learned a fair bit, I still have difficulties trying to capture the gesture in less than a minute as you can see all of those are incomplete. Additionally, I did add some of my own critiques on the longer ones and I am well aware that I am still very new at this.
Randyren997
I think you can try to catch more about the curve line of these pose.
Not just stick figure.
Polyvios Animations
Hello again.
Greatest and totally nicest job on your selection of parts of poses and your movement, motions, and flow of those. But still, I'm not getting enough of the most fearless, boldest, and powerful lines of action and rhythm. How would you like to kindly go ahead with 19 minutes of 30 second drawings of the figures? (38 poses)
The reason why you could and would just go ahead with those is because, this method can and will be able to let you be the most completely, totally and absolutely holistic in your style of figure sketching, and to be absolutely selective in your body part drawings, not to mention to be positively confident in your graphic edges.(shapes and lines) For all the rest of the information and tips, please do look into the 2 Walt Stanchfield books in PDF forms from Archive.org.
Let's hope you've found these useful, generally.
The 30 sec/1 min recommendation are often misunderstood. The aim is not too hurry the drawing, but to focus on the first few lines.
What you are doing so far, is to try to get the arrangements of limbs correct. That might seem to be the obvious way to capture a gesture, but it is misleading. The first things you need to get aligned properly is the 3 masses: the head, ribcage and hip. Understand their size and their placement towards each other, develop useful shortcuts to note them down in a few lines.
The limbs are somewhat simple, basically tubes, that are connectected with joints, so all you need to do for now is to find the positions of the joints. And the most important joints for now are shoulders and hips, which is why it is again all about getting head, ribcage (w/ shoulderline) and hips correct.
On your prior upload, you did indicate the masses, now you skipped them and went back to basically just stickfigures. That's a wrong turn, you are taking there. Head, ribcage, hips, head, ribcage, hips, head, ribcage, hips,... that should be your rhythm and melody for now.
The "action line" is a concept that I feel is important, but it is more complex than it is sold as. It's main advantage is, that it usually gives good indications to place.... you guessed it: head, ribcage and hips!