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1. •  
     CommentAuthorherman
   • CommentTimeOct 6th 2009

    # 21

   3 major things can help you check your picture

   1 proportion
   2 cross reference
   3 negative shape

   
2. •  
     CommentAuthorPeter
   • CommentTimeOct 8th 2009 edited

    # 22

   thank you Herman, your help is more than appreciate

   
   
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     CommentAuthordevin
   • CommentTimeOct 8th 2009

    # 23

   peter check your angles and relationships more. You can use your pencil as a straight edge to look for relationships, and measurements.

   I lined up the straight line I drew from the chin, so that they were the same size. Yours is in blue off to the right.

   
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     CommentAuthorPeter
   • CommentTimeOct 9th 2009 edited

    # 24

   Tex thanks buddy, I didn't guess to use the pencil like a straight edge :P yeah def. have to be more accurate in observing the ref, anyway...I sold my tablet and borrow mine old one (graphire 4 a6) and tried to do some quick figure studies - this little gadget has extremely scratched surface 0_o and it is big pain to produce any good strokes with it anyway the practice is important noticed a lot of the same mistakes (which you will notice too) but you know - "if you do not do mistakes you can't improve"
   *sorry for didn't include all refs but the mistakes are noticeable and without them, and yeah some emoticons just for fun :P

   
   
   
   
   
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     CommentAuthorPeter
   • CommentTimeOct 10th 2009 edited

    # 25

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     CommentAuthorrmangano
   • CommentTimeOct 10th 2009

    # 26

   Hi Peter, Study looks good

   In the first one, If you like that sort of thing, and find it easier to understand, check out the book Dynamic Figure Drawing by Burne Hogarth, its a great book and I am still studying it myself

7. •  
     CommentAuthorPeter
   • CommentTimeOct 10th 2009

    # 27

   rmangano:

   Hi Peter, Study looks good

   In the first one, If you like that sort of thing, and find it easier to understand, check out the book Dynamic Figure Drawing by Burne Hogarth, its a great book and I am still studying it myself

   it's was exactly the same book from which I took this piece off

8. •  
     CommentAuthorパベル
   • CommentTimeOct 10th 2009 edited

    # 28

   Hey peter, you are still not looking at the big forms! This is why you figures feel flattened out, you need to pay attention how the major forms are placed in perspective. I do a quick draw over with arrows to show how the major forms flow - think of the figure as big boxes stacked ontop with different configurations.

   About Hogarth, personally I think his anatomy book is bad to use - all his figures are very baloon and rubber like, not a very good way to learn the body! Bridgman and Loomis are far better books to study - especially bidgman as he breaks figures down to large blocks which helps to learn the major forms.

   
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     CommentAuthorAmbientchroma
   • CommentTimeOct 10th 2009 edited

    # 29

   Hey man, a good exercise for you to concider would be doing 50 gestures, 25 from ref, 25 from mind. The emphasis is on proportion and gesture, mass and that don't matter as much I've attached an example of them done by bumskee. Also I'm going to disagree with Rayk's comment on Hogarth. Each "school" of figure drawing has their own emphasis (and they're all using synthetic forms), vilppu on gesture and procedural drawing, bridgeman on mass and wedging of forms and hogarth has an emphasis on rhythm and interconnection in 3d space. Keep those in mind. Just don't take any of the studies literally, synthetic forms are meant to be understood and used as guidelines, not taken literally

   
10. •  
      CommentAuthorPeter
    • CommentTimeOct 11th 2009 edited

     # 30

    rayk - thanks man, had a lot of issues to fix ,hope next time to do it better
    Ambient - thanks mate, do you know some links with poses except posemaniacs which I can use for gestures?