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Good morning, Aunt, and greatest job on your analytical but fully intuitive sense of edges, spaces, and relationships. I'm not getting enough of your boldest and most ambitious gestures in your lines of rhythm. How would you like to please liven up your poses with drawing from your dominant and non-dominant arms with 15 minutes of 5 minute poses of underwear'd poses.
The reason why you would and could go ahead with this thing is because, your standing poses like this one above can, must, and will have the most gesture and animation to then, even in your feet in form and perspective. So for most details, kindly just look into practicing learning how to draw turnarounds, from this link here. Good luck from me to you and your progress.
Hi Aunt Herbert!
Very nice woodcut-like effect.
I have a couple of small remarks of what I'd do different.
First, the shoulder of the relaxed arm looks quite stiff. this usually doesn't happen in a natural pose. I would consider lowering and rounding out that shoulder a bit.
Second, keep in mind that, in a relaxed arm, the elbow is usually around waist-level and not higher.
Third, consider the shape and width of the hips. I find a more natural shape would be a bit wider. We see tummy in the front, but not as much on the side.
Finally, I find the head is a bit too small! Your head is about 9:1, which, unless intentional, should be a bit of a smaller ratio.
Here is a photo to illustrate what I meant.
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Thanks, you are right, the proportions are way off on this one. To be honest, the white line underneath the right shoulder that indicates the side of the torso was added after scanning with a white eraser and the mouse, else the torso would have looked even more ridiculous.
I was still mentally in 1 minute sketching mode; the cockyness of the pose impressed me and I wanted to catch it in one big, but quick line, and was hurrying too much to measure for proportions before I just threw it down. Then I realized, that the class mode had switched to a 5 minute timer, and I had 4 minutes left to polish the turd and put some pretty details on a botched foundation.
Lesson to me:
Either do what you preach and stay away from rushing the shorties, so you maintain a constant working speed, or
at least, when you realize, you started with the wrong tempo, restart the drawing with a new attempt.
I am happy to see someone taking the time and actually giving me a detailed critique, a lot of people seem to be too shy for it for some reason, and it really helps me to reflect on my drawing process and analyze the source of my mistakes. So thanks a lot for your comment.