#figuary2023

[corgi-nub]

Some of the gestures from the first week of Figuary

[restlessanimation]

From figuary day 2. 2/3/5 min poses. Model: @ameeka.moore . . . #figuary #figuary2023 #gesture #gesturedrawing #sketch #figure #figuredrawing #portfolio #pencildrawing #art #artist #artwork #artistsoninstagram #restlessanimation https://www.instagram.com/p/CpVgICRPufw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[restlessanimation]

Now that figuary is over I'm going back to the days I missed. Here's day one. 2/3/5 min poses. Model: @amarutta.model . . . #figuary #figuary2023 #gesture #gesturedrawing #figure #figuredrawing #portfolio #artist #art #artistsoninstagram #artwork #carbothellopastelpencil #restlessanimation https://www.instagram.com/p/CpTAYcYv6mH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[pioneeroverc-my-5000th-sideblog]

Figuary - last day

top-bottom, left-right: beginning of Feb 2022, end of Feb 2022, beginning of Feb 2023, end of Feb 2023

Fell off super hard and ran out of energy so I actually only did 27 days, but I'm just DONE with this lol. Also didn't sleep last night so that doesn't help... it's making doing a writeup of the month pretty hard...

I still really don't like how I simplify legs with that weird back-of-calf curve. It looks like too many bits. Need to check how Hampton does it. I also have noticeable problems drawing curves for the shoulders and also not placing the shoulders on a horizontal line instead of at an angle, which flattens the pose out.

My poses are still very stiff, which I'm guessing means that I am not getting accurate angles for stuff like hip tilt yet - I am slowly getting a feel for this though. Maybe it's time for me to start trying to exaggerate angles as well. I understand how the torso curves work sometimes intuitively but I would say this happens about 30% of the time - I definitely need to trace over photos like I said I would before being exhausted. Maybe two photos a day for the next month? It would be five minutes tops - I could set up a Krita document with a bunch of premade photo layers to make it as easy as possible too.

Overall, I'm not happy with the amount of progress I made this month, but then I never am (and I did try to fix some mistakes I noticed, even if I only tried the fixes the day after and then didn't repeat them). So... whatever haha

[restlessanimation]

Figuary day 28, the last day! 2/3/5 min poses. The first drawing was with a general 9xxb pencil. I liked it much better than the catbothellos I've been using. I think it allows me to be more accurate with details along with being able to do shading. Model: Kay . . . #figuary #figuary2023 #croquiscafe #gesture #figure #figuredrawing #gesture #gesturedrawing #art #artist #artwork #artistsoninstagram #porftolio #carbothellopastelpencil #generalpencil #restlessanimation https://www.instagram.com/p/CpN28X3JUti/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[restlessanimation]

Figuary day 27, 2/3/5 min poses. Model: Alfie . . . #figuary #figuary2023 #gesture #gesturedrawing #portfolio #art #figure #figuredrawing #artist #artwork #artistsoninstagram #restlessanimation https://www.instagram.com/p/CpLRxv9PBh2/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[pioneeroverc-my-5000th-sideblog]

Figuary day 26 + weekly

Ups and downs this week. Still feel like I'm not trying hard enough to improve and just 'going through the motions', to be honest, even though I have been trying to identify things I have trouble with. For the next few days, maybe I'll try to spend 15-20 minutes isolating the problem areas AND doing tracing over photos (thinking I could do this for shoulders and torso lines at least).

[pioneeroverc-my-5000th-sideblog]

Figuary day 25

Tried taking more breaks to see if it helps my learning. I guess we'll see in the next couple of days. About 10 minutes in I had to refer back to the same video to see how he handles shoulders - I think I saw some improvement after that.

Now having trouble connecting the ribcage and pelvis together with Flesh. Also still trying to keep my diagonals directional - I've found that I tend to draw very symmetrical curves (as in the midpoint is equidistant from both ends) and that I reeeeally want to hook the curve that represents the active/compressed side at the top. This does not show any kind of energy or form and I need to stop doing it

Things I am happy about: wasn't sure which direction to draw in for one of the 10min poses and tried out both ways as small quick gesture sketches instead of just picking one and going with it. Also keeping up the construction instead of drawing over bad guidelines.