My first attempt at traditional timed figure and gesture drawing

[Ace Connell]

@Rich-Green I love that! That's awesome!

[Bobby Aquitania]

@Rich-Green said:
I catch myself picking up on things I never would have paid attention to before - and more now than ever snapping a quick photo with my phone to capture a composition I find interesting in the real world, or a color of the way the sun hits a tree and snow around it, or a texture I think I may be able to use in the future and so on.

Congrats Rich, you have officially been hit by the art bug! When I finally made a break through in digital art, all I could see in people's faces were how I would draw them given the chance. And I couldn't turn it off no matter how I tried. I just kept noticing color palettes and highlights, and it was everywhere just like you describe it above.

I hope you always feel that way!

[Rich Green]

Worked on another gesture practice. I can really tell I am still very stiff with those starting flowing straight lines and once that happens the entire image suffers from looking stiff.

But that is what is so great about this kind of practice is that I can now see this happening and the impact it is having and I have something I know I can work on.

For the 1.5 minute anatomy markers I also pulled in a bit of the volume markers per the other video classes from Will and Jake because I am also working on perspective practice a lot here as well.

After I was done I pulled this all into Photoshop so I could post here and in doing so I decided to trace the original photo's actual flowing lines and then I copied that over my various phases. My analytical brain loved this because I can see even more clearly where the lines should flow in comparison to what I had drawn. I found that quite helpful and it highlighted more bends and angles I do not think I picked up on in her torso. Really interesting to me.

[MOO]

Thanks for sharing this! I think I'll go try it too