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Draw-along Challenge Feedback Video: July (Patreon)

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2024-08-01 15:00:19
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This was a super fun reference to draw, I really saw each artist lean into the exaggeration and the story of the action.

In this feedback video, I share some ideas with the artists about:

leg anatomy

shape language

drapery

and more!

Feedback on the Draw-along Challenge is available to every paid member (Pencil/Conté/Sketchbook Tiers) of the Patreon. If you've never submitted before I would love you to try it!

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BILL

STUART

BIANCA

LAWRENCE

The next Draw-along Challenge for August will be posted next week :)

GG.

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Gillian Gestures - Draw-along Challenge Feedback July

Comments

Lawrence

Hi! Yes I did the ink one first. I really try to make the lines nice and clean like other people's drawings but as ever my ink is really scruffy and I'm lucky if I haven't got ink blots everywhere. However, I do want to make funny drawings and somehow the very scruffiness seems more comic. No idea why. My wife points out that my desk is a mess, my office is a mess, my computer's desktop is full of random files with no order and suggests that somehow I can't think without mess. With ink I have to think of the lines of action without drawing them. With the pencil drawing I put in the lines and so can exaggerate and keep the drawing as somehow more coherent... though no matter how much I erase and perfect, the scruff comes out. There is a point where perfecting the piece gets it to look like a tracing, which I resolutely try to avoid! I went to a life class and the tutor there was all about drawing with charcoal and dealing with the figure from the inside out and not trying to do what he called "Crime Scene" outlines. I ignored him because well, I'm trying to make lines work for me... and now and then venture hopelessly into cross hatching but that's a different sort of disaster... Any way, yes, figures in action are really good to capture, and if I look at the sketches of renaissance artists, I'm sure they're all about someone creeping up behind them and yelling suddenly. Classical poses have a pantomime quality just ripe for making fun of... but it only works if you can really do it well! And I am trying to look and draw the figure and then just draw the figure remembering the key bits and filling in the rest with the imagination or, as I like to think, the accidents of incompetence. No idea if that will get me to where I want to be, but hopefully I'm not just going around in circles.