Forum posts by Joshua

Thanks Kim and Sanne for the help! I tried to keep those points in mind and drew this today. I think the rib cages and legs are better than before, although my heads tend to be a bit stretched.

Here's another attempt, drawn from 30-second, 1-minute, and 2-minute images. Unfortunately I forgot what I learned before and draw all the 1-minute hands like the 30-second ones. I only remembered before I started on the 2-minute ones.

Thanks Sanne for the advice!

I had another go tonight, and tried to apply it: Link

PS: Is there a reason why someone else's profile pic is showing as mine for previous posts? :-D

Thanks for the advice! I had another attempt at it today: http://joshuamatulin.deviantart.com/art/Figures-Day-315-Learning-to-Draw-646719236

Here's another attempt:
http://joshuamatulin.deviantart.com/art/Hands-Day-315-Learning-to-Draw-646717130

Each section is based on the 30-second, 1-minute, 2-minute, and 5-minute exercises from top to bottom respectively. They don't look as good as yesterday's drawings unfortunately.

I tried figure drawing for the first time tonight. I watched/read a few articles/videos on this website prior to starting. I did some 30-second drawings, and some 1-minute drawings. Here's a link:
http://joshuamatulin.deviantart.com/art/Gesture-Attempts-Day-314-Learning-to-Draw-646586960

For a few of the 1-minute drawings, I just missed out on marking all the joins, and I reckon I could've done so with 5-10 more seconds. I'm don't know what extra detail I should add if I used a 2-minute, 5-minute or 10-minute timer instead, beyond drawing the lines and circles a little slower so they're more accurate. I guess with a 2-minute timer I could spend an extra 20 seconds getting the lines and circles more accurate, and then use the remaining 40 seconds to draw circles for the arms, legs, and hands.

For the person in the bottom-let, I drew the pelvis too high, then tried to quickly draw it a little lower and rub the first lie out, but I ran out of time.

Could I please have some feedback? How can I improve here?

I had another attempt at the hand drawings. The first section is from 30-second images, the second from 1-minute images, and the third from 2-minute images. I did them all in pencil this time"
http://joshuamatulin.deviantart.com/art/Hands-Day-314-Learning-to-Draw-646587686

I also tried the pencil control exercise at the top of this page (there are a few other exercises on the same page):
http://joshuamatulin.deviantart.com/art/Drawing-Exercises-Day-314-Learning-to-Draw-646582969

I also tried some figure drawing. I'm going to create another topic for that, so I can use that thread as the master thread for my figure drawing, and this one for my hand drawing.

Thanks for the quick reply! I'll definitely try out that pencil exercise. Are there any other exercises I can/should try to practise my drawing?

I also just read through your articles on gesture drawing. I'll give that a shot sometime this week as well.

Hi Kim, thanks for the detailed feedback!

I tried the class again tonight. This time I felt I did much better on each exercise than the first time. For the 30-second and 1-minute drawings, I started out by drawing the lines of action like you recommended, and added some more shape if I still had time.

I meant to use pencil to start off the two 5-minute drawings and the 11 minute one, but I forgot to use the pencil for the first 5-minute one! For the other two, I started by drawing the basic lines of action and the shapes in pencil (like for the 1-minute drawings), then went over the top in pen.

Looking at my last drawing, I'm trying to figure out how it's physically possible to position your hand as I drew them. The view is of the palm and the thumb is on the left, indicating it's the left hand, but I drew the fingernails on the right side of the fingers. The view was on an angle and the fingers weren't exactly straight, but if the hand and position were where I thought they were when I drew them, the fingernails should be on the left side - but I'm sure that's where I saw them! I didn't notice this until I was uploading the drawings though.

Here are the three pages:
http://joshuamatulin.deviantart.com/art/30-Second-Hands-Day-313-Learning-to-Draw-646411423
http://joshuamatulin.deviantart.com/art/1-and-5-Minute-Hands-Day-313-Learning-to-Draw-646412408
http://joshuamatulin.deviantart.com/art/11-Minute-Hand-Day-313-Learning-to-Draw-646413369

Could you please give me any more feedback or advice?

This website was recommended to me by someone to practise drawing hands. I've been trying to learn how to draw them, but without success.

I think my biggest problem is that I'm not used to drawing quickly. I'm relatively new at drawing (I started drawing at the beginning of the year). I've timed all the drawings I've ever done (simply for reference, I don't try to rush at all... well I didn't until I came to this site!), and I usually spend 30 minutes to an hour on each drawing.
My other main problem is that I simply cannot drawing convincing hands, even with infinite time.
So when I try and draw hands quickly, the results don't turn out well.

I have two general goals I'm working towards:
1) To simply be able to draw hands convincingly i.e. so they don't look more like a piece of ginger than a human hand.
2) To be able to draw more quickly in general

When I get better my goals might get more specific as I get better.

I'm going to try to use this site at least once a week to practise. I intend to update this topic with all my future drawings of hands and feet (if I decide to use this site to also draw animals and/or faces, for example, I will create a separate topic for those).

Of course, my goal here is to get feedback on how I can improve. I'm been uploading all my other drawings to Deviantart for the same reason, but unfortunately I rarely get any feedback on any of my drawings there.

So far I've done two sessions on this site. On the first day, I drew various hands at a minute each, and two other at five minutes each.
For the second day I did a 30 minute class.
The links to my drawings are below:

The first day:
1 Minute Each - http://joshuamatulin.deviantart.com/art/Hands-1-Minute-Day-308-Learning-to-Draw-645492224?q=JoshuaMatulin%2F57427759&qo=6
5 Minutes Each - http://joshuamatulin.deviantart.com/art/Hands-5-Minute-Day-308-Learning-to-Draw-645494574?q=JoshuaMatulin%2F57427759&qo=5

The second day (a 30 minute class):
http://joshuamatulin.deviantart.com/art/Hands-30-Secs-Each-Day-309-Learning-to-Draw-645703485?q=JoshuaMatulin%2F57427759&qo=4
http://joshuamatulin.deviantart.com/art/Hands-0-5-1-5-Mins-Day-309-Learning-to-Draw-645704845?q=JoshuaMatulin%2F57427759&qo=3
http://joshuamatulin.deviantart.com/art/Hand-11-Minutes-Day-309-Learning-to-Draw-645707286?q=JoshuaMatulin%2F57427759&qo=2