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How close do you hold the pencil to to lead end when you do gestures? If you hold it further back, it will loosen up you lines. They're a little tighter than they look like they should be, based on your stroke patterns.
Honestly, I think you need to do more of this and less of the big paintings you hold so dear to your heart that you can't stand to get critique that does more than scratch the surface on.
This will help you fix the many construction problems you have with the human form and its really great for broadening your mind to more poses and actions in your illustrations. You'll go from girls that look like deer caught in headlights to people actually interacting and well, living, believably. I'm not going to lie. It's VERY refreshing to see you posting work that is more of an indication of your skill than the "impressive" paintings.
2 minutes is a pretty long time. I think you probably started nice and loose, but pinned in some lines because you went over them. Try a shorter time limit. Cut it down to 1 minute. Then to 30 seconds. I found that a time limit really helped me stop focusing on details and pick the most important lines.
A lot of people like to send you to Posemanicas, but their poses are garbage. They don't feel like real people at all. Good for timing, but you can do that yourself with your phone's timer and setting up some images before hand in different tabs on the browser.
This is where my inspiration usually comes from, most of the time. [link]
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This second one should also be helpful. Check out how the resting bodies press into the surface they rest on.
One thing I noticed that you do here and in all your images is that you're not keeping in mind the shape of the forms as they take up space. Feel the shapes out with your hands if that makes sense. (I'm hiding this awesome link in the middle of the text as a reward if you actually read this instead of just blocking me. Haha. [link]) Feel the shape of the form and turn in around in your head. Look at it from the angle you want the viewer to look at it. Just think of base shapes and not an arm, or a leg, or a torso. (Getting bogged down in what it supposed to be often blocks us from getting the basic form that is IS correct.)
I hope you keep working on studies. They'll take you to the next level from making stuff that's pretty to making stuff that's awesome.
Honestly, I think you need to do more of this and less of the big paintings you hold so dear to your heart that you can't stand to get critique that does more than scratch the surface on.
This will help you fix the many construction problems you have with the human form and its really great for broadening your mind to more poses and actions in your illustrations. You'll go from girls that look like deer caught in headlights to people actually interacting and well, living, believably. I'm not going to lie. It's VERY refreshing to see you posting work that is more of an indication of your skill than the "impressive" paintings.
2 minutes is a pretty long time. I think you probably started nice and loose, but pinned in some lines because you went over them. Try a shorter time limit. Cut it down to 1 minute. Then to 30 seconds. I found that a time limit really helped me stop focusing on details and pick the most important lines.
A lot of people like to send you to Posemanicas, but their poses are garbage. They don't feel like real people at all. Good for timing, but you can do that yourself with your phone's timer and setting up some images before hand in different tabs on the browser.
This is where my inspiration usually comes from, most of the time. [link]
[link]
This second one should also be helpful. Check out how the resting bodies press into the surface they rest on.
One thing I noticed that you do here and in all your images is that you're not keeping in mind the shape of the forms as they take up space. Feel the shapes out with your hands if that makes sense. (I'm hiding this awesome link in the middle of the text as a reward if you actually read this instead of just blocking me. Haha. [link]) Feel the shape of the form and turn in around in your head. Look at it from the angle you want the viewer to look at it. Just think of base shapes and not an arm, or a leg, or a torso. (Getting bogged down in what it supposed to be often blocks us from getting the basic form that is IS correct.)
I hope you keep working on studies. They'll take you to the next level from making stuff that's pretty to making stuff that's awesome.
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