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The Wow Factor - The Power of Rhythms in Figure Drawing (3 Levels of Gesture pt 3)
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- čas přidán 8. 11. 2021
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In this series ‘3 Levels of Gesture Drawing’ we are breaking down gesture drawing into its component parts and going in-depth on the skills you need to build. My hope is you won’t have seen this level of clarity about gesture drawing before!
This part is all about rhythms. Let’s think about the flowing curves we looked at in part 2 of this series relate to each other. There are some things to look for, some common and natural rhythms that are easy to find, some elements you can add in to mix things up. Rhythms can seem quite mysterious at first, but hopefully this video makes it less intimidating :)Let me know what you thought in the comments below!
My question recently has been: How do you merge gesture and form together?
Ideally I would want gestural drawings that show a solid form of the figure, yet when I prioritize showing the forms of anatomy and the solid forms of the body I lose a lot of gesture and confident mark making, and when I prioritize gestural drawings that flow I find myself creating fairly flat drawings or ones that are missing quite a bit of anatomy detail.
That's just been the recent struggle, thank you so much for all of these videos though, they've been extremely enlightening and demystifying of the learning process. I honestly don't know what I would have done without them.
hey what a great question. i think the key will be your surface lines. lines that wrap around the forms - e.g. in torso from ASIS to ASIS point, showing how the pelvis is tilted forward, at ribcage e.g. under chest, showing how the ribcage is tilted back. in thighs wrapping the cylindrical forms. these surface lines tend to be curves and can be really gestural while also showing form. hope it helps :)
Michael Hampton has a few almost lectures on how *he* does that, which are very helpful. they're on his youtube channel and i would suggest looking at em, but do know that it might not answer all your questions outright.
I find with experience you start to see these rhythms on a more detailed level. This creates a more lively figure drawing even with quite static poses.
To me, the connections between the dots are the MELODY 😍
“…fake it till you make it…” I like it because it’s applicable in most situations and it sort of rhymes!
Helpful to see it done in real time. You are the master of plausible explanation of technique!
Thank you - you are doing so well on your drawings!
The example with guitar hero was SO good.. I love this video!
Wow, that was a long time!
You should definitely post and share more often!
I speak for the community, saying, you've been missed!
We want to see more of you
and more of your drawing.
It doesn't necessarily has to be a well thought video,
just to see what you're up to,
and some drawings :)
Less explanations on how to draw,
More drawings that shows how to draw!
@@yaromcohen yeah i've been a lot slower with the baby being born, and i try never to sacrifice quality for the sake of more uploads. however, hopefully be more regular now :)
@@lovelifedrawing Thanks for keeping the upload of content, Kenzo. Hope the baby and fam are doing well ☺️.
Thank you for this three part series! I picked up figure drawing back in 2020 because I wanted to improve my drawing capabilities, since I had no real approach on how to start to draw...anything. I occasionaly scribbled on my WiiU gamepad but while the finished sketch looked quite decent, I just started somewhere on the empty canvas and tried to imitate the lines of my reference on my phone as close as possible which most of the time ended up getting too big and I had to draw everything smaller on a different layer, or over and over again for hours.
From all the exercised I had encountered, gesture drawing was the least fun for me and that ended up making me put drawing on hold for ~1.5 years while I explored some other hobbies. As you said in the beginning, the tutorials I watched spoke about "feeling the energy and the flow of the figure" and I did kinda get why gesture is important, but they all showcased their long experience of drawing hundreds of thousand of gesture poses over their career. I felt a little left behind watching most of them drawing gesture, because they instinctively start to draw details in there that felt like they were not that relevant for beginners yet, or started shading on the fly, using charcoal or a pencil with a long mine, so they had to hold it differently, some were more messy in their approach than others which made it harder to follow. It was a mess and I felt like I could follow along with some and understand why they drew the gesture that way, but applying what they showed was a whole other story. Most of the time I felt like I was too focused on converting outlines to C/S curves and straights and when I tried the minimal approach (as few lines as possible, so head, center line, shoulder and hip angles and curves for arms and legs) it still felt off.
But after watching all three parts in a row I think I begin to get a better grasp on how to approach gesture drawing. I feel confident again to pick up where I left off.
This is very helpful❤
This is very helpful! I wish I thought of branching curves! Thank you!
7:07 am I the only one to see a laptop in the left corner
Primer comentario, saludos desde México, sigue así, excelente contenido!
Oh, wonderful video, like always
this is so good!!!
I was trying to explain the basics of the drawing skill through the music analogy and was called "narrow-minded" so many times for that ahahah
Glad to finally meet a person (well, a whole community, considering that people in the comment's section agree with you) who understands me and doesn't treat drawing skill as some kind of unapproachable metaphysics.
Oh that's strange you'd be called narrow minded for that?!
@@lovelifedrawing yes! "That's not how an artists is supposed to think", "you should drop this hobby if this is how you approach it", "you are overthinking it", etc. One person told me to give up drawing because they kept comparing it to professional sport and claimed that person's success is "biologically determined". I rarely met people who think like you.
Love the brushpen/crayon drawings! :)
Thanks Irma!
now i know how to make my pictures better.. thanks
Useful content, as always!
Kenxo, could you share with us what kind of brush pen do u use?
It makes nice marks, maybe combination of brushpen+paper works good.
Thanks! It’s a Pentel pocket brush pen. The sketchbook is a random one I grabbed so would need to check :)
Rhythms are like movements but different because they keep repeating the elements over and over again.
That Brent clip! 😹
I find it easier to do standing poses but the sitting poses with rythms is just not happening for me
that's interesting - a lot of the more 'standard' rhythms come in standing poses like contrapposto etc. i'll have to think about specific tips for tackling sitting ones
7:08, laptop falls over Lmao.
Kinda difficult to find these rythm lines when the model is just sitting
Rip Laptop at 7:07
"Melody" would be better than "chords". Not your fault though, it's a clunky analogy to use "rhythm" in the first place.
It should be called “currents” not rhythms
I like it