Okay, so I've received a lot of questions from you guys regarding gesture and proportion
Gesture is primarily without proportion. But Roman is all about accurate abortion
How do I use each? Well, first of all gesture isn't really without proportion
When practicing gesture you shouldn't be distracted by proportion, but you should still consider it
Ideally, you will capture the gesture while staying true to the proportions though that will take time to train your eyes to see
But I see what you're saying. Sometimes you'll need to change the proportions or move things around to improve the gesture
but if you do that
You're not being completely accurate according to your reference. I
Think it's a balance. Sometimes you have to lose accuracy to create better gesture
Sometimes the job requires complete accuracy
It's your decision how you want to balance it?
Personally, I usually exaggerate the gesture
Sometimes a lot sometimes only a little but rarely will I need to exaggerate gestures so much
That the proportions look wrong
You can have both
Okay, moving on to another similar question from Carolina Valdes
At this point when drawing gesture should I be thinking about proportions or in the meantime?
Just focus on gesture. Most of my gesture drawings have bad proportions
Is this something that with more gesture practice? I'm gonna overcome or I
won't get better at proportions until I start studying it as
An artist you will have to learn a lot of concepts such as gesture proportions
structure shading
Perspective composition color the list goes on you'll struggle with each until you have studied and practiced each
Gesture and proportions happen to clash in a way that is frustrating to new students. The answer isn't as simple as
Study gesture and then study proportions. You will need to study both
alternate them as you wish and
Don't forget that art isn't something you graduate from like college. You will never be done practicing gesture or
Proportions or structure or composition or color? I've said it before and I'll keep repeating this
Drawing and painting is like a sport. You constantly have to practice to keep your skills up
So try not to get into the mentality that you can study a concept then move on to the next
Instead think of it as if you're adding a new concept to the soup of all the other things you're already
Practicing you can focus on one and then focus on another but remember that you will need to regularly
revisit them
Anyway, going back to the gesture versus proportions question. It will be tough at first
Your gesture drawings will look disproportionate until you've trained your eye enough to capture the proportions and gesture
Simultaneously, you will improve with proportions even if you don't
specifically focus on just proportions a lot of drawing is
Observation, so as you observe your eye is slowly tuning itself and you get better at seeing accurate proportion
but of course if you focus on studying proportion and
Specific exercises for proportion you will improve quicker
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Getting feedback is critical in recognizing and fixing your mistakes
So if you don't have someone that is always critiquing your drawings
You need to do it yourself. The next question comes from Sid hassel ttan. I
Started seriously practicing gesture end of January. I'm still struggling with timed gesture drawing
I can't seem to complete anything under
And when I do there are key pieces missing
And/or the proportions are out of whack. Is there anything else?
I should be considering like starting the gesture with the bean or do I just need more practice?
Yeah, you probably just need more practice you've only been doing this for a few months it's normal not to see results immediately
If two years from now you look back and there was no progress
Well, then there's a problem but month-to-month
It's hard to see a significant difference. It's a very slow process. That's why you just have to enjoy it
You're gonna spend years doing this until you get some sort of satisfaction
So if you don't enjoy the process
It's gonna be tough you
Asked if there's anything else you should be considering like starting with the bean
Well, you can start with the beam or the Robo bean or with simple gesture lines
Try all of them and get good at all of them
But don't worry about the time issue take as long as you need you will get faster
I know the feeling of the time you're making you anxious, especially when you first start doing it
Go ahead and give yourself a few extra minutes
There's nothing wrong with that
The purpose of the timer is to prevent you from drawing too many details not to make you move your hand quicker
So if you find yourself trying to draw quickly and you think you've simplified as much as you could
Then it's better to add some time. You will get faster as you practice
But if you're spending too much time because you're focusing on too much detail
Then you just need to simplify it more different length. Sketches are meant for different amounts of detail
If you only have 30 seconds to two minutes
You only have enough time to do a few simple lines
Indicating the main flow if you have 5 to 10 minutes
then you can add the anatomy and details like I showed earlier if
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