(1) 5 min | (1) 10 min

Good afternoon,

I really love the way you displayed the faces with so few and purposeful lines in your 10 min studies. I think that as you work on the rest of the body being able to utilize lines like you did with the face will have a wonderful result.

Its actually pretty common to feel like the ones where you have less time have a better "flow" You don't have as much time to overthink so sometimes you are able to place lines more confidently and create poses with a bit more life. That is kinda part of the purpose of gesture drawing.

Are you following any program for anatomy? Many people reccomend Proko (free online) and there are many other sources available, from books to blogs the information is out there. It can be hard to know what to focus on, so following a class can be very helpful.

For the bottom right, I would think that maybe keeping your underdrawing would be helpful when you look back to your previous work. This is just a study and seeing how you captured a pose initially could help inform what you do next time.

Hope you have a wonderful day!

Good afternoon, Bril.

I really think you're doing the greatest of jobs on your gestures over your spaces and forms of your figure poses. But I feel that the line quality and consist could and would use most loosest of flows and fluidities. How would you like to kindly go for our interactive drawing tutorial, if you really haven't already, haven't you?

The premise is because, your lines can and will become the most observant in terms of your right side of your brain, but that's not all! Your poses can and will become the least fearful but most artistically bravest and confident. So for most practice, may I recommend looking at some images from Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud?

Thank for.

This is a good start! Although your focus is on the 5min and 10min, I'd like to appreciate the "stick" figures above them, good job simplifying the poses into shapes. This can go further into simplifying the muscle and fat of the body into shapes as well instead of jumping straight into linework.

Training your brain to see the human form as 3D shapes instead of lines will help how you view and replicate poses. You did this sort of with the torso, head, and hips to mark out the pose, which is good, but better shapes could be used. Even just an oval can help better show the direction and shape that the form is.

As for these overall sketches, I'd reccommend spending more time simplifying the body into shapes instead of focusing on details like the faces. At least for me, once you start focusing on details like that, it's easy to get lost and forget the piece is an entire person, not just a head. I keep myself on track by comparing my shapes and limbs to other parts of the body. I ask myself questions like; What is the height of the elbow in comparison to the hips? What is the length of the arm in comparison to the legs?

I want you to think more about why you liked the 5min compared to the 10min. From what I can tell, you used quicker strokes with your pencil than you do with a pen. Quicker strokes = more confident lines. You also have line weight with pencil as opposed to pen, which can completely change how an object is perceived in a drawing. An exercise I like to do after my studies is go through and figure out exactly why I don't like a specific drawing. Thinking about this and figuring things out like that are imperative to growth when it comes to a skill like drawing. Self critiques can be the harshest, but they still hold value.

Just doing exercises like the 30 minute classes really helps improve your minds eye for shapes, which is an important part in understanding anatomy and perspective! You're doing great :)

Look soo good! I love the shading and face and hair 😍 The hands look pretty good too! Body shape looks a bit unnatural on the second one.

Others in this comment section have already critiqued what I would've said, so I won't repeat them, but I absolutely agree that the 5 minute one looks "better."

I think you might've gotten bogged down in the details in the 10 min one, instead of focusing on the figure as a whole and the flow of it first, before adding details. It can be hard not to jump into details when you know you have longer, but remember that the shorter timed sketches are the foundation of the longer ones.

I like to think of the 10 minute ones broken down into the previous time "chunks." For example, the first thing I do is draw it as I would for a 30 sec one. Then I do what I would for a 1 min one. On and on until you reach that final time.

I am just a fellow student, not a professional in any means, but I hope this helped a bit :D