Domestika breaks my heart anymore. They used to offer great discounts; I could get courses for like 6-8 bucks each at times. I think they've put an end to that completely, and only try to push people into their subscription model. They've probably made more from me than I'd even have paid for a sub, but I refuse to be locked into something like that. I might be done paying them another cent. Instead, I'll keep burning up their servers, working through the backlog of courses I've paid for a la carte. Great video. Really digging your channel.
3:01 It's funny that you say you skipped the contour because that was what immediately came to my attention when looking at the clothed people - "oh, he didn't add an actual body contour, that is a cube wearing a shirt". The majority of my study for years has been contour-focused and I've only gotten more into doing form and still life studies in the past few weeks, so it would be expected that I'd be sensitive to that. But I have had the opposite problem - I can get a nice contour, but I don't have the skill with form to keep it from floating around if I try to work from imagination. Just a little bit of work with still life has done a lot to clean it up, though, so maybe I'll get that more settled this year.
Lol got me! Yeah I think I agree with your assessment. A cube wearing a shirt lol. But yeah I think this is the weakness of the box mannequin. I also think it takes away some of the dynamism from the poses as well. I’ll have to work on this. How do you normally practice your contour? Could be that I was just thinking about it the wrong way.
Hey Vincent moving forward what type of courses or exercises do you have planned for yourself? Im also wondering what your plan is on improving your head construction, will you start filling pages with heads and drawing them bigger so that you cant simplify and have have to draw all of the details of the face or do you plan on going to different art resources,going back to the proko course or isolating different facial features or landmarks? Best of luck
Do you have an instagram or patreon or anything of the sort where we can follow your art besides youtube? Id support you for sure! If you did walk throughs of how your process works with drawing from imagination or from reference would also be great and highly educational!
isaw one of your other videos and noticed this method bc I just took this course recently on domestika, I need to get the hang of drawing boxes. with time it'll get better. thanks for the video!
Yes with time it will get better. It takes some trial and error. Eventually it starts to click. I remember in the beginning trying to get the boxes to align to create a mannequin in the Proko figure drawing course. The struggle was real. I was so excited when my robo beans started looking better.
I also appreciate you mentioning which lessons you skip. I try to do each video and I end up procrastinating but this is encouraging me to focus on what I need to study vs trying to do everything. thank you!
Great work! Such an inspiration for me that started drawing at 42 😊 One question, for the mannequins, are you taking the poses from references? Or completely going from imagination. Since you’re in practice mode, understanding the pose itself can be a challenge (overlaps, flow, etc)
Hello, Vincent. Thank you for sharing your skills, observations and thoughts. I would like to ask you how you decided that gestue drawing is enough? Many people talk about this skill, but there is very little information on how to move from this to further techniques.
Многие говорят, что рисование жестами - это основа изображения фигуры, но я как бы не вижу этого в ваших рисунках сейчас. Как будто эта техника больше не используется, а используется техника манекена. Кажется, что рисование жестами уходит почти как отдельное направление или стиль.
@@canilearntodraw2579 Sorry Vincent if I'm being too forward. I'll rephrase the question. From your current position and skills, how do you rate the gestures drawing skill? Do you use it now when drawing figures/mannequins?
Yeah I have had several different ideas around keeping track of time. In some of the earlier days I use to keep track of how many hours spent on some of the academic drawings. I often wonder how helpful things like that are. They are cool to see but not sure how helpful.
great to see..so many tutorials and I get overwhelmed and tried to do it all at once so I got nowhere. Will try this too:)
Sounds good all the best! I’m rooting for you!
This is really helpful. Great video
Domestika breaks my heart anymore. They used to offer great discounts; I could get courses for like 6-8 bucks each at times. I think they've put an end to that completely, and only try to push people into their subscription model. They've probably made more from me than I'd even have paid for a sub, but I refuse to be locked into something like that. I might be done paying them another cent. Instead, I'll keep burning up their servers, working through the backlog of courses I've paid for a la carte.
Great video. Really digging your channel.
(Luckily, I've already paid for this one 😁)
3:01 It's funny that you say you skipped the contour because that was what immediately came to my attention when looking at the clothed people - "oh, he didn't add an actual body contour, that is a cube wearing a shirt". The majority of my study for years has been contour-focused and I've only gotten more into doing form and still life studies in the past few weeks, so it would be expected that I'd be sensitive to that. But I have had the opposite problem - I can get a nice contour, but I don't have the skill with form to keep it from floating around if I try to work from imagination. Just a little bit of work with still life has done a lot to clean it up, though, so maybe I'll get that more settled this year.
Lol got me! Yeah I think I agree with your assessment. A cube wearing a shirt lol. But yeah I think this is the weakness of the box mannequin. I also think it takes away some of the dynamism from the poses as well. I’ll have to work on this. How do you normally practice your contour? Could be that I was just thinking about it the wrong way.
Hey Vincent moving forward what type of courses or exercises do you have planned for yourself? Im also wondering what your plan is on improving your head construction, will you start filling pages with heads and drawing them bigger so that you cant simplify and have have to draw all of the details of the face or do you plan on going to different art resources,going back to the proko course or isolating different facial features or landmarks? Best of luck
Do you have an instagram or patreon or anything of the sort where we can follow your art besides youtube? Id support you for sure! If you did walk throughs of how your process works with drawing from imagination or from reference would also be great and highly educational!
isaw one of your other videos and noticed this method bc I just took this course recently on domestika, I need to get the hang of drawing boxes. with time it'll get better. thanks for the video!
Yes with time it will get better. It takes some trial and error. Eventually it starts to click. I remember in the beginning trying to get the boxes to align to create a mannequin in the Proko figure drawing course. The struggle was real. I was so excited when my robo beans started looking better.
I also appreciate you mentioning which lessons you skip. I try to do each video and I end up procrastinating but this is encouraging me to focus on what I need to study vs trying to do everything. thank you!
Great work! Such an inspiration for me that started drawing at 42 😊 One question, for the mannequins, are you taking the poses from references? Or completely going from imagination. Since you’re in practice mode, understanding the pose itself can be a challenge (overlaps, flow, etc)
Thanks! In my sketchbook the mannequins are both from reference and from imagination. However the final project is all from imagination.
What course is this?
What kind of materials are you using? Line are so clean
Thanks. It’s just a regular bic mechanical pencil, micron felt tip liners, and ink diluted with water.
Hello, Vincent. Thank you for sharing your skills, observations and thoughts. I would like to ask you how you decided that gestue drawing is enough? Many people talk about this skill, but there is very little information on how to move from this to further techniques.
Hi. I’m not sure what you mean by gestures drawing being enough. Can you say more?
Многие говорят, что рисование жестами - это основа изображения фигуры, но я как бы не вижу этого в ваших рисунках сейчас. Как будто эта техника больше не используется, а используется техника манекена. Кажется, что рисование жестами уходит почти как отдельное направление или стиль.
@@canilearntodraw2579 Sorry Vincent if I'm being too forward.
I'll rephrase the question. From your current position and skills, how do you rate the gestures drawing skill? Do you use it now when drawing figures/mannequins?
whats the name of the sketchbook?
The one in this video is a moleskin.
You should have given the number of days or months you spent on each section :)
Yeah I have had several different ideas around keeping track of time. In some of the earlier days I use to keep track of how many hours spent on some of the academic drawings. I often wonder how helpful things like that are. They are cool to see but not sure how helpful.