[PAINTING] Learning How to Design

[miracoly]

So I drew some mammals for my dynamic sketching the other day and I noticed that I really lack "organic fundamentals". I struggled really hard to imagine the organic volume, I also had a hard time to capture motion and proportion. Then I started researching how I can do better. I found a guy named Jonathan Kuo and he does some awesome animal drawing, he also recommended a book by Joe Weatherly, The Weatherly Guide to Drawing Animals. After some investigation I learned that concepts like Line of Action, Gesture, Motion, Masses and Structure (which I'm already partly familiar with due to Prokos figure fundamentals) play a huge part in animal drawing as well. Those similarities are great for my learning process. Basically I can apply all the stuff I learn through Proko to my dynamic sketching as well. Its so refreshing to really learn again. I feel like the last weeks were more about mileage and just practice, didn't felt like I - learned - new stuff. 

I just identified the next huge building block of my fundamentals: Capturing organic form in perspective. Feels good to mix up the practice and learn something I avoided for a long time. I think it will push my work to a great extend.

Will post a page of my sketchbook and also two pages of gestures. Those gesture are the latest ones and the first which are almost showable. I think some are bad and some are more decent. I could definitely exaggerate the action more. 

ANY COMMENTS ON THE GESTURES HIGHLY APPRECIATED!!! (100% Novice)

Thanks all!