Forumberichten van Dansvidania

Thanks a lot for the time you took to answer, I really appreciate it.

1. I did erase some of the underlying structure of the sketches I felt were worth working on a little bit more.

2. In all of this drawings I was originally going for the gesture, and I feel like I can only kind of get the line of actions right when they are.. well... evident. If the pose is subtle though, like if the model is standing up straight or curled in a fetal position, I still struggle trying to find what the line of action is, and what to exaggerate in the pose.

3. Now that you made me look at it I see how flat all of the drawings are, and will try to draw from 3d shapes and structures from now on. I really do need to work on my prospective a lot.

Thank you again for your kind critique; I hope I will be able to keep practicing and post some followup sketches soon enough.

Dan

Hello everyone,

I had been drawing when I was a kid. Unfortunately I never got any training and only now I am starting to follow tutorials and videos about drawing. I would like my progression to be a little bit more structured and I hope some of the experts can help me figure out where I am going. I am trying specifically to figure out if it would be worth to join a class immediately or just train on my own (maybe with your help) for a while and save the money for later.

The following sketches are a mix of 30 seconds, 2, 5 and 10 minutes poses. For many exercises I have used the very nice figure drawing practice utility on this website: the reference material could familiar to some of you.

I have been trying to work on my gesture drawing a little bit more than a week, the result of my work is the following:

http://dansvidania.tumblr.com/post/120816944871