pose study critique - Line of Action

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January 27, 2024 2:50pm #30737

Idon'tknow

I have returned and now I have done a new lesson, my applications regarding some sort of poses were ranging from simple shapes in silhouette to force lines. The time I spent in every each of these poses are done without ever stopping the watch (a problem I had before starting). I also tried to draw small sized poses because I know poor space organization is indeed a problem of mine.

https://imgur.com/a/sOtDDYq

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January 30, 2024 7:40am #30760

Saveremreve

You've captured some really compelling poses with economical lines. They have an energetic comic book feeling.

I'm curious which practice format you used, this looks like all the same time per image.

In terms if improvement, I notice your feet are drawn consistently proportionally larger. I think in many cases it fits with you style and makes for strong grounded silhouettes. That said you might take time to focus on your feet when you do a session and see if there are other techniques to capture them. It can help capture the complexity of poses where the limbs aren't grounded or bearing a lot of weight.

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January 31, 2024 5:45am #30768

Polyvios Animations

You've done the greatest and powerful job on capturing the most totally appealing poses. Love the weight, solidity, and energy in them. But I'm still not too pleased with the most excessive scribbliest stiffness in the poses, which is perfectly OK, since you're just practicing. How would you like to please go ahead with 16 minutes of 30 second poses to completely loosen yourself up? (32 pose sketches)

The reason why you could and would loosen yourself up is because your lines will become the least stiffest and the most actiony, vitalest, and energetic. If you're still curious about gesture drawing, please look into the most gesture drawing from Pinterest, YouTube tutorials, the Shamus Culhane animation book for that particular exercise.

My hat's off to you.

January 31, 2024 2:13pm #30771

Idon'tknow

uhmmm, I just did the lessons here and just followed the suggestion to use as much as little lines as possible, but i can tell you, they are not different from when i first started. I just got new suggestions where i am supposed to follow the negative space, but the way they told me I do not understand and they still didn't answered me.

Anywys, what are some of these "techniques" that would make me draw feet better?

January 31, 2024 2:26pm #30772

Idon'tknow

Ok, but in what way I should loosen myself up? I am sorry if I sound confused, when I do this, they do not resemble the pose even a little bit. and also someone else that gave me an other suggestion as they drew the poses sorta like I did here but if you think I understood their suggestions poorely I understand, ' cause I tried asking them some questions yet they didn't answer me. Anyways, that's what they said.

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https://imgur.com/a/tbEfw5o
I think your simplification of the body is excellent. How much mileage would you say you have in figure drawing? How long were these poses? I assumed they were 3-5 minute poses. Good job overall.
I dont have that many critiques overall for the figures you submitted but I will say you should be more aware of how line weight affects the gesture.

https://imgur.com/a/yzYcBQd

For example, On the gesture I provided above I feel like there is alot of confusion on where the poses weight is shifting which leads to it looking stiff. The way I found a way to exaggerate and find how to push the weight more was through intersecting points throughout the figure. Most of the figure is leaning down and the rest of the body follows along in reception. ( EX) shoulders, pevlis, and left leg. ) The torso and shoulders usually dictates much of where the weight of the pose will go. Before tackling a gesture, try to imagine what way the body would fall if you removed one of the legs. Would it fall to th right? the left? would is stay stationary? Deciphering these small details early on can lead to you having a succesful drawing that is able to envelop that sense of movement, which is the main goal with figure drawing.

https://imgur.com/a/Sv2WxY9

In the next drawing, I find the major issue to be a lack of line confidence, I can see alot of chicken scratch lines and lines that dont connect. It is really interesting because you were able to get it down perfectly with this drawing. ( https://imgur.com/a/6nJHWMX ) This drawing is objectively more appealing than the other because of your use of lines is vastly different. You used too many curves in one compared to the other which is why the body ends up looking balloony. ( EX : https://imgur.com/a/vEWehRe )

It is kinda hard to explain this over text but there are some great books that go over the issue with using too many straight lines and too many curves respectively.
One book I can recommend is FORCE : Mattesi and Micheal Hampton. They go over in depth alot of subjects regarding adding life to your figures. FORCE is more focused on gesture while Mattesi focuses on construction and building a critical eye for simplifiying the body.
- https://www.amazon.com/Force-Dynamic-Drawing-Animators-Second/dp/0240808452
- https://www.amazon.com/Figure-Drawing-Invention-Michael-Hampton/dp/0615272819

https://imgur.com/a/635gUPs

Many of the same issues are present in this drawing as the other one I mentioned with you using too many curves in the drawing. Drawing muscles and adding fat is hard. What I used to try to understand the pose better was through negative space. ( https://imgur.com/a/tj3VAEA ) I blocked in the areas around the figure instead to try to understand and decipher if I was getting closer to my goal. By adding in these blocks I can quickly tell if the size of the arms and body is proportionate without wasting time. For example, I used this method repeatedly on all the figures to tell if the spacing between the legs was too wide or not. Aswell as on the arm to tell the distane from the leg to the arm holding the stick.

Trying to learn how to draw the human body is extremely hard, we are all learning together at our own paces. I think you are going in the right direction. I would definitely reccomend getting those books or trying to ask for more critiques.