Ram’s 100 Day Challenge: Gesture and Structure | Figure Drawing

[Shravan]

Day 22:

[Shravan]

Day 23:

Finding the gesture for few of the poses is hard. Gotta keep practicing. All are timed sessions with the exception of few drawings in the 4th sheet.

I also realise, my line control needs to improved and done slowly.

[Shravan]

Day 24:

I am going to focus on connections for 10 days. Today my focus was on connection of arms to torso.

[Shravan]

Day 25:

The picture quality is not good for few pages because the drawings are so light. I tried to take good picture but failed to do so.

[Shravan]

Day 26:

[Shravan]

Day 27:

[Shravan]

Day 28:

[Marcolino Estuardo]

Please watch out for your ribcage shapes. Remember, it tapers near the neck. Pick up an egg. Visualize that it has flat sides.

Also, draw the ACTION/SOUL/MOOD/ATTITUDE. Some lines seem to close to the contour/anatomy. Feel free to do separate studies where you breakdown the figure (or parts) into their simplest form.

[Shravan]

Hi Marcolino, thanks for the advise. Will follow it from tomorrow.

Day 29:

[Shravan]

Day 30:

I focused on torso and I tried to think with the action and volumetrically also.

[Shravan]

Day 31:

Focused on gesture and volume of torso.

[Shravan]

Day 32:

Gesture, volumetric. Tried different angles of the torso movement. Most of the gestures were tough.

[Raven Kushner]

Ram

That’s awesome that you’ve been so diligent to keep up with the practice. I’ve also really enjoyed the challenge so far. I’ve decided to downplay timed gestures though. I didn’t want to keep practicing bad habits. So, I’ll do the timed drawing most days, but I have no problem stopping the clock, or going back later to do the drawing correctly. And, nowadays, like today, I don’t do the 1-minute drawings at all. For me, the whole point of doing gestures is to learn to focus on the larger shapes and overall gesture line, not just to get good at gesture drawings.

Which classes are you taking right now?

[Shravan]

Hi Raven,

Thank you. I’ve stopped timed sessions completely for now. I did this so that I can focus more on body movement and breaking the 3d object into simple volumetric shapes (I guess the term for this is form?).

I am not watching any figure drawing courses right now, instead I’m following the figure drawing track which has a huge emphasis on the fundamentals. I am currently watching “Stress-free Sketching for Beginners” by Sheldon Borenstein. (I think this is term 2)

I have to say this though, I thought I had a good grasp on the fundamentals with just a month’s practice… Boy was I so wrong. I practice the course’s exercise for the majority of my day which aims to improve the observational skill, gesture, forms and cross-contours. I have limited drawing the figure to an hour.

In my opinion, I think my figure drawings have become much better by taking the fundamentals courses.

What about you? Which courses are you watching?

Day 33:

[Shravan]

Day 34:

I joined the livestream late, started around the 5 minutes timed session.

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