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Hello Coel,

Thanks for posting!

It looks like you're drawing from the wrist, which most artists do, and struggle with fixing (been drawing seriously for 3 years and I still do it. xD). Drawing with your wrist is great for precise short lines, but when creating long fluid lines for gestures, it gives your drawing a sketchy look. So instead, try drawing with your elbow and your shoulder, meaning don't pivot your wrist, but instead, pivot from your elbow, and/or shoulder. This will help give your gestures a flow and a weight and help remove the sketchy lines. I recommend visiting Drawabox.com in addition to your studies here to help you study line-making. It's a lot of hard work, but I've personally been enjoying it and am finding great value in its practice.

Honestly, keep up the hard work, don't give up and definitely keep posting!

• Jimm edited this post on June 29, 2020 5:20pm. Reason: grammar

Hello Psyminapixel!

Thanks for posting, and I hope you end up using this site regularly! :D It's a great resource for study and practice!

onto the critique!

First off. For your second time, you've drawn some pretty decent hands! Keep up the good work. It looks like you're drawing from your wrist. (don't worry too much, most artists, including myself, do and struggle with it)

While difficult to practice, try drawing from your elbow and shoulder instead. The wrist is great for small precise marks, but gives you small, sketchy lines, whereas drawing from the elbow and shoulder helps produce fluid, confident lines that give your gestures a flow and a weight. Try Drawabox in addition to your studies here to learn more about line-making. It's hard work, but I've been enjoying it myself!

The only other piece of advice I will give is to keep up the good work and don't give up!

Firstly, thank you for posting!

nextly (:P)

These have a lot of flow and weight. I can tell you've been practicing and frankly, I'm pretty impressed by your clean AF gestures. I'm not at or near your level of gesture abilities, so I feel the only thing I'm qualified to say at this point is to keep up the good work and don't give up!

Well, unless you have the full membership, as a doodler membership, you can only upload 5 images a month. Hope this helps!

Messy? Sure. Full of energy, Yes.

I love these, and I feel like I can see a lot of personality in it. I feel like the proportions are on point, if not somewhat stylized, and your lines feel pretty confident and flowy.

Keep up the good work!

These are pretty good! Hands and feet are a lot of people problem areas (mine included) and these are looking dynamic and proportional.

Honestly, there's not much i could say here, Just keep up the hard work and good job!

First off, congratulations on setting and completing your goal! As a fellow procrastinator, I can definitely admire this, and applaud you and your efforts!

onto your drawings...

You have made progress that you should be proud of. Looking at your first picture, your lines are unsure. You're sketching it out. Which isn't horrible, but it's clear that you're just starting out.

Fast forward to your 1000th gesture, and the surrounding gesture drawings, your lines are confident, show a flow, a weight. The proportions seems spot on and i can really see the effort you've been putting into it!

Splendid job, and keep up the great work!

These are very well done! Your proportions seem well done and your drawings have a good flow to them!

My tip would be to work on your line confidence, and to darken your background color so your image pops out a bit more! (this will also help strain your eyes less!)

Keep up the great work!

Your proportions seem mostly consistent, which is good, but they need a little work! (and who couldn't benefit from a little bit of that!)

My only honest feedback is to keep going, and keep it up!

I think you did a good job on these. Your lines are nice, and your proportions are well done. Solid job, thanks for posting.

• Jimm edited this post on August 9, 2019 8:49pm.

Hey there,

Don't even trip. Frustration is a huge part of being an artist, it comes with the territory. It's great that you are frustrated, use that to propel yourself forward!

Here are a few tips that may help you.

Never stop drawing, carry a sketchpad around if you have to, but draw whenever you can.

Draw from life

Use references whenever you can! (especially if you do any digital art) Using references will help you retain key details of a body, or whatever it is that you're drawing, and help you keep things in perspective and proportion.

It is easy to get discouraged and get turned off to drawing, but the trick is to work on things that hold your interest but leave room to expand into other area's as you grow in skill.

Keep up the good work. You can do this!

It looks like you have proportions down rather well. These are well drawn. Keep up the good work and don't stop practicing.

Your posing and technique are great, and I like the sense of place and sense of motion in these. I think your next step is to define where you want to go with your art, rather than trying to find out whats wrong with the art you are currently producing.

If you get a clear idea of your goals, you can then go, 'okay, so i want to do such and such art' and then focus on aspects of that art, and start integrating that into what you are already doing! :D

Good luck and keep up the good work!

I really like these! I get a good sense of proportion and motion.

Keep up the great work!

Coming from another self-taught artist, I can't see anything that you're doing wrong. In fact, it honestly looks like you have the hang of things, and all you need to do from here on out is put in the man(or woman) hours needed to make all of this muscle memory, which will allow you to put proportions to back of your mind while you focus on whatever you deem to be your next step. This is a really good collection of sketches, and I encourage you to keep at it and not get discouraged. Keep up the good work!

Side note, your hands were fantastic! :D