01-11-2016, 12:36 AM
Hey man, keep going with those gestures! you're catching the idea of the pose nicely. Maybe some exercises to help develop the volume and form to the masses (head, ribcage, pelvis). A good exercises is from the dynamic sketching CGMA videos with Peter Han. He basically starts off just sketching a random, flat outline of a shape, then thinks about it as a volume by adding a centre line and lines that wrap around the form from side to side and ends up with stuff like this:
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736...88804b.jpg
Those are really tight and finished looking, but it's just an exercise so they don't need to look as good as that. Start off simple, draw about 4 or 5 shapes on a page and jump between them adding centre lines and wrapping lines. It's a nice exercise to do regularly and can also be done as little doodles when out and about on a notebook or something.
It will help you to see and think in 3D on a flat page, so you can then incorporate that sense of 3D into your figures and gestures.
EDIT:
Oh yea! I originally came here to post you this video, might be useful for you depending on whether you could get into this way of practising; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0ufz75UvHs
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736...88804b.jpg
Those are really tight and finished looking, but it's just an exercise so they don't need to look as good as that. Start off simple, draw about 4 or 5 shapes on a page and jump between them adding centre lines and wrapping lines. It's a nice exercise to do regularly and can also be done as little doodles when out and about on a notebook or something.
It will help you to see and think in 3D on a flat page, so you can then incorporate that sense of 3D into your figures and gestures.
EDIT:
Oh yea! I originally came here to post you this video, might be useful for you depending on whether you could get into this way of practising; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0ufz75UvHs