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Cool. The interlocking works here and is successful. The shade blocking the forms definitely helps in making things clear and simple.

Thumb looks fine. Wrist could be a bit thin? Maybe a perspective issue?

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@srsanyal Hey hey! Thanks so much for the words. Appreciate you coming back. 🙂

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Hello

For the next few days I’ll be sharing from my Summer sketchbook, dated July 2-Spet 29. Here, I spent my practice on Steve Huston’s Arm & Hand chapter. Believe it or not, my first time EVER really learning how to draw them! my initial ones come from a book called ‘Caravaggio And His Followers’. If you wanna study hands, learn from him! VERY VERY expressive and so much story-telling/emotion. And of course from your own!

Live figure drawing (with restrictions!) began starting up. I went to a few that were doing it outside. Fun! By this time, the pandemic was making its rounds, people were growing restless, tension was in the air, and businesses slowly started opening around Memorial Day. I myself was wanting to explore the outside world again.

Then shit blew up…

 

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This is great! The small drawing definitely shows some improvement. Don’t be afraid to leave in your construction lines/draw-through. Reaaaally feel out those forms being made/connected/etc.

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Hi Gordan. The head on the Day 59 is great!

But! For Day 60, what is it specifically that you don’t like?

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You’re very welcome. This page above is a lot clearer in it’s forms. Continue.

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Here, Michelangelo is trying to figure out the leg.

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Here is Pontormo studying the neck. Del Sarto changing the arm and even placing clothing over it.

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Yeah, smaller studies next to the original. Look up the drawings of Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Pontormo.

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I think I spent studying gesture/structure for what seems like forever. In terms of challenges, since you have both down, take the time to do 10, 15, 25 min figure studies. Draw the whole figure or a part of it.

I know there’s a pandemic and not much live figure sessions are happening, but if you follow Gallery Girls on Instagram, you can join in on their various Zoom sessions that happen about 4 times a week. It’s good to train, but you gotta put all this into practice. By practice I mean drawing from life. No workshops? Go to a park/street intersection and watch people ALLLLLLL day long. Bored of object drawing? Draw your hand/foot which share the same structures. I like these marker sketches. Perhaps a change of medium is needed.

 

Best 🙂

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Oh! Here’s a quick n dirty re-draw for pic 2! Hope this helps. 🙂

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Hola Raven. It’s great that art can make you good and have a sense a purpose at the end of the day. Despite the hurdles it brings, it’s always a thing to look forward to. Will be going through each of these pieces.

Pic 1-Watch your overall proportions. Head is a bit big. Observe closely how the head fits onto the neck and onto the torso itself. Be clear in the FORM (Sphere, Cylinder, Box) you choose to symbolize the torso. I’m at a loss at what it is. Reads as a bulging tube but the interior lines confuse me. Again! Think BIG SHAPES! Detail comes after. I assume that’s part of the upper leg coming from the hips. Be aware of the directions/thrusts they all go to. Have you been reading Hale’s book religiously? Also, that arm in the back, it is too long. Any reason why you extended it? It’s a common issue we all do. We try and show the other side. You see it portraits where the far eye is not in proper perspective. It’s as if we wanna show the viewer everything. Trust your eyes. Us as viewers will know what is back there and know instinctively its proportions and whatnot.

Pic 2, Figure on Right-I love the weight given off from the hips and the balance you created. Push that squash & stretch more, that contropossto. Of note to remember: From the Pubic Center to the Bottom of the Feet is THE SAME as Top of Head to Pubic Center. Your legs are a bit short.

Pic 3, Figure on Right-Head bit too big, arms bit too short. In light & shade, try to simplify and make clear your chosen shapes. Make a clear separation of light and dark. I know all to well how busy with info the waist area can be. Squint your eyes and look for big, clear planes. The left leg, yes, light was most likely lighting that area, but it could be toned down a bit more if not be in a large shadow mass for clarification sake. The right upper leg is a good example of what to aim for: simple form (cylinder), separate light/dark, throw in that single mass value for the shade.

Keep it up!

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What are your usual time constraints?

Heed the advice of Huston where he says “Don’t try and finish. You’ll fail miserably. Do as much as you can in the time given”, paraphrasing here. haha.

If it’s proportional issues, then maybe take the time to study that certain area. Take another 10 mins after this pose and explore the tilt of the pelvis some more. But you already you’ll focus on all that next! Sooooo go!

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Haha. So technically I completed the’100 Day Challenge’ on June 30 without knowing about it initially. XD

That does it for this sketchbook. Will share the next one. Much the same: portraits, writing, Steve Huston exercises. I’ll make sure to share more of that actually! Keep Safe y’all!

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Really let myself go during the start of Summer. Good thing I got rid of this clump of hair before it 150 degrees where I live and fires almost killed us off.

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