Forum posts by Kim

Just jumping in to help, I think this is the direct link to the post Aunt Herbert was talking about above! :)

https://line-of-action.com/forums/topic/how-to-draw-heads-from-the-facial-expressions-practice?page=1#post-31765

Just a heads up, those are links to ibb website pages. They can't be embedded. You need to put the link directly to the image file to use the img tag and have them embedded. These links would end with .png, .jpg, .gif or .webp. For example: https://i.ibb.co/PggR0Z1/MTXX-20241220-015036601.jpg

Which looks like this in the img tag:

Ooh, I have good news about that request!

From this small sample, it looks to me like you construct your animals using more circles and your humans with more stick skeletons, but it's pretty hard to tell based on just this!

I want to emphasize that in most methods, sub 1 minute drawings are just *exercises* to train your brain to look at images a certain way, with certain priorities. That means if what ends up on the page in 30 seconds is a single pen stroke, a stick figure, whatever - it really, really doesn't matter. Having an aesthetic result you can show to people is not the point. It's sort of like being in a martial arts class and being upset that the pushups at the start aren't a full kata. If you are meant to be focusing on learning the gesture/essence of motion, then do that, and don't worry if the visual notes you make about what you're studying and learning are legible later. You'll still be learning plenty. Something else you can focus on in sub 1 minute exercises is volume, limb relationships, etc.

Not to kill my own market here, but 1-2 hours of gestures per day sounds wildly excessive to me. I was always trained to use them as a warm up before slightly more sensible drawing windows, so like, 15 minutes max.

Oh, I have good news on that front! You CAN design your own class progressions: https://line-of-action.com/user/studio/classes

My pleasure! I hope it works for you for now. :)

I totally understand this frustration. I think one of the issues we've started really running into in recent years is that there's now over 8.5k reference images in the figure study tool for full members, so when I add a hundred more it's really just a drop in the ocean - they're not that likely to shuffle up versus any other image. This is definitely a problem I'm working on in the rebuild I've been hard at work on, but I think we're still a couple months out from that being released.

In the meanwhile, there's a few things you could try --

If they are absolutely never appearing and you think there might actually be something wrong, you can try clearing out the photo cache in your tools here: https://line-of-action.com/user/cleartoolcaches

As a full member, you can create your own custom playlists from our library here: https://line-of-action.com/playlists which will enable you to select only the new images you're most intersted in for a session. :) When selecting images it does show the newest one first so they're easy to grab.

Oh, that's an interesting thought. I'll add it to my list of stuff to consider. :)

This is something I'm working on! :D

You're not necessarily too late! I was REALLY sick across big chunks of September, which has slowed me down a bit. I'm recovering now and hoping to get back to this project ASAP.

Oh, that's very useful to know! Thank you so much for the update.

Huh, that is interesting. I see it okay on my desktop; I'll do more testing on my phone.

That said, this may be something I can't address until we release the new version, hopefully in just a few weeks.

I'm glad you're finding it useful!

If you're a subscriber, you can go here: https://line-of-action.com/playlists and choose the button "create new playlist"

You'll have to pick what kind of playlist - animals, humans, etc.

It *should* be fairly explanatory from there, choose the "add more images" button and find the images you want to put on the list. You can then drag your chosen images around if you want them in a certain order.

I agree we need more help content. I'll try for that with the new version; little point in creating it now that I'm about to replace things. :)

Thanks for those suggestions! :)