i have been stuck on anatomy and poses for a while, i was learning about the muscles and bones etc. but my stuff still looked fundamentally wrong. Then i remembered this video a friend send me once about how i should watch this. This is exactly what i needed! Thanks MDJ for helping me again with one of your amazing videos, you're channel is just one big art book that can help everyone!
I'm fascinated by how, when I started with an action line, the figure decidd what it was as I drew. I start with the thought of "I'm drawing a ballerina doing a jette" and the figure said "no you aren't" ended up as a man slipping on a wet floor.
Very thankful for this, you showed some exercises that I’d never considered before. Learning to chang the perspective of a pose is so great for when you can’t find that perfect reference!!
Man this video is actually pretty damn good haha, I was already tired of seeing the same kind of videos about gesture drawing, with the same stuff repeated over and over again. But your video is different and actually has a lot of quality, so Thanks a lot!
2:30 That's interesting how you draw the legs! It makes a lot of sense to use the "S" shape there. 3:30 I love how you draw the feet here. Gonna try this in my next practice sessions!
I just spent the past year focusing mostly on gestures and poses, so this video is really good review to help me check up on myself, my mistakes, and what I should be improving on. Thank you!!
I somehow love the way you draw poses, your drawings are kind of stylish, unlike most drawings I see in books that all look the same. The video has a good dynamism, it was very enjoyable to watch.
Hell yeah I like the content! Not only does the instructional part help me get a sense of how to observe then apply, but serves as motivation when I can see you working traditionally on these exercises.
Amazing content as always James. It helped me a lot. I wish we had a syllabus to know what levels of art to study, for how long to research before practicing, and how long to practice before moving on to the next stage...I.E. basic shapes/forms, shading/hatching, gesture drawing, poses, perspective. It would be a time saver and a life saver.
I had started getting too used to drawing 2D icons of muscles instead of 3D, my proportions were off and my gesture was wonky. You’ve helped me so much! Thanks
broo this is so helpful! I've seen so many art channels say 'just do ur research, take (expensive) classes, etc 😇😇' and I just can't do that. Its way easier to digesting it In this video, and has taught me so much
Seriously, you're really good, in my opinion. Like, I can imagine you being one of the designers for the Wicher 3's concept art studio, or at least helping design the Nilfgardian stuff. Great stuff, I aim to be able to naturally draw good poses like you. I quit long ago, felt like my stuff was too stiff and extremely distorted, it was a heap of trash. It still is, but it's slightly better than before, so I aim to continue practising gesture everyday and develop my forms. I don't intend to quit this time, I hope.
@@Maxer110 I improved gradually, but I stopped practising a long time ago because I've pursued architecture design as my main area of focus. Regardless, I' can share some important things that I've learned if you're interested, I hope it helps you to continue working hard and stay fixated on your goals: 1) When they tell you to practice for several hours a week, it is absolutely true. You need to gain experience and a sense of comfortable/familiarise yourself with your craft on a deeper level. 2) Push yourself to achieve things outside of your comfort zone. You have to be in these states in order to grow, and even if you fail you must attempt to learn from your failures. A skill to develop with failure is being able to isolate *what* you failed, *how* you failed it and *what* you can do to prevent the failure that you've isolated. Achieve the three. 3) Study from many, many experts. There's a lot of ingenious tricks that they employ, the path to learn is seemingly never-ending because they also have some unique twist of their own in their style. 4) Ground the fundamental design concepts that formulate the building blocks to design. Some key fundamental areas that helped *tremendously* with posing/gesture was a stronger sense of *perspective, mass forms (breaking forms down into 3D shapes) and basic human anatomy.* These are three basic ones, there are others, but when these online teachers emphasise the importance of these building blocks, it's not without good reason. From my journey I've come to realise that if you neglect these important aspects, and expect to achieve greatness, then you've set yourself up for failure/disappoint. Grind these concepts out, and along the way try to *enjoy* the process as much as you can. Hard work, discipline/consistency and commitment is one thing, but desires/enjoyment towards the craft is another. This is important because you may potentially run the risk of burning yourself out, and it's okay (you may need a break), but if you want this to be your future, then make sure you try to secure your passion. You'll definitely understand the significance of this as you grow.
Dan Efran the point of 10 second and 30 second gestures is to get rid of all the unnecessary information that a final drawing has. It makes you simplify and draw from instinct and makes you develop confidence in what you're drawing. The end result is something very simplistic but at the same time has a strong sense of dynamism, character and personality!
Agreed, you just have to boil it down to a line of action, the masses and lines for the arms and legs. It's less a matter of trying to be super expedient and moreso a means of just studying the positioning of the body. You'll find that when you do this, the studies will naturally become very quick
wonderful Tutorial ,, which Covers all the aspects of Anatomy , of people in motion as well as in static in micro level in an easy manner and helps us very much..... Thanks a lot for Sharing of Such valuable Masterpice Videos...Expecting more from You Master....... Good Luck And best wishes.......,👍
I’ve been trying to get into drawing for a few years now but I just can’t start anywhere I rlly want to do Character Design and want to do art more than anything. Any ideas on what to do to start (books, videos, exercises etc)
I'm 54. Started drawing 50 years ago. I finally got the action line down. Now on to the next step. ✔
It's never too late.
Slow and steady.
So you think now, wait a week.
Never give up!
it took me 100 years to learn how to draw the armpit. It's never too late.
i have been stuck on anatomy and poses for a while, i was learning about the muscles and bones etc. but my stuff still looked fundamentally wrong. Then i remembered this video a friend send me once about how i should watch this. This is exactly what i needed! Thanks MDJ for helping me again with one of your amazing videos, you're channel is just one big art book that can help everyone!
Kenzo from LoveLifeDrawing also has plenty of good pointers.
I'm fascinated by how, when I started with an action line, the figure decidd what it was as I drew. I start with the thought of "I'm drawing a ballerina doing a jette" and the figure said "no you aren't" ended up as a man slipping on a wet floor.
Very thankful for this, you showed some exercises that I’d never considered before. Learning to chang the perspective of a pose is so great for when you can’t find that perfect reference!!
Man this video is actually pretty damn good haha, I was already tired of seeing the same kind of videos about gesture drawing, with the same stuff repeated over and over again. But your video is different and actually has a lot of quality, so Thanks a lot!
Kevin L I feel you.
Ok this guy is really talented but damn does he have nice hands
Why are you underrated? YT algorithms, why he underrated? This is university level stuff, better even.
Thank you sir! Hopefully less underrated by the day, the growth has been increasing steadily :D
OH, OF COURSE THIS IS UNIVERSITY LEVEL STUFF, THE DUDE IS A FREAKIN' TEACHER
Ikr
It isnt anymore cause youtube is forcing le to watch it since a week ^^
哈哈哈，这可能是基础，但是很多人并没有这个能力
2:30 That's interesting how you draw the legs! It makes a lot of sense to use the "S" shape there.
3:30 I love how you draw the feet here.
Gonna try this in my next practice sessions!
2:50 You know I had to do it to em
Hahahah
I don't get it
@@cocorosh7295 it's a meme
@@SPACECOWBOY705 what's a "meme"?
Batter Wottle yr nan
I just spent the past year focusing mostly on gestures and poses, so this video is really good review to help me check up on myself, my mistakes, and what I should be improving on. Thank you!!
I somehow love the way you draw poses, your drawings are kind of stylish, unlike most drawings I see in books that all look the same. The video has a good dynamism, it was very enjoyable to watch.
i really liked the music u used, so relaxing
Im absolutely adamant its the gwent music from the Witcher game in the first part 😍 i love it
@@katconley2787 thanks 4 sharing
I've never studied art before but I really enjoy drawing despite having a lot of struggles with technique. Thank you for sharing this content!
okay I think I found my favourite art channel that's more technical focused
4 years later and this video still holds. Timeless information! Thanks James!
your background music is actually one of my favourite soundtracks ever, recognized it instantly lol
This is great! You made it seemed so simple. I love the free hand drawings!
Hell yeah I like the content! Not only does the instructional part help me get a sense of how to observe then apply, but serves as motivation when I can see you working traditionally on these exercises.
"everything traditionally from now on"....music to my ears, thank you so much!
Amazing content as always James. It helped me a lot. I wish we had a syllabus to know what levels of art to study, for how long to research before practicing, and how long to practice before moving on to the next stage...I.E. basic shapes/forms, shading/hatching, gesture drawing, poses, perspective. It would be a time saver and a life saver.
I find one of the hardest part about self teaching all this stuff is figuring out to build your own cirriculum.
A cool material to also work with for gesture drawing is charcoal. I find it forgiving and it flows nicely.
fruit That’s all we did in art class and I disagree.
@@keepyourshoesathedoor How can you disagree?
@@gregorycomey Cause not every medium suits everyone
Love the channel mate! keep on doing what you're doing!
Merci beaucoup de nous aidé à la compréhension du dessin.
This came in my recommented
videos like this are saving me a lot of money
I had started getting too used to drawing 2D icons of muscles instead of 3D, my proportions were off and my gesture was wonky. You’ve helped me so much! Thanks
broo this is so helpful! I've seen so many art channels say 'just do ur research, take (expensive) classes, etc 😇😇' and I just can't do that. Its way easier to digesting it In this video, and has taught me so much
This was insanely helpful. You explain concepts in a way that is easy and fun to learn.
Okay you’re super concise and easy to understand, but unrelated, I love the background music you’re using!
These exercises seem really fun, thanks for the video ^^
BEST GESTURE DRAWING VIDEO ON TH-cam 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣 thank you 🙏
Seriously, you're really good, in my opinion. Like, I can imagine you being one of the designers for the Wicher 3's concept art studio, or at least helping design the Nilfgardian stuff. Great stuff, I aim to be able to naturally draw good poses like you.
I quit long ago, felt like my stuff was too stiff and extremely distorted, it was a heap of trash. It still is, but it's slightly better than before, so I aim to continue practising gesture everyday and develop my forms. I don't intend to quit this time, I hope.
What's up? Any news?
Any news yet?
@@Maxer110 I improved gradually, but I stopped practising a long time ago because I've pursued architecture design as my main area of focus. Regardless, I' can share some important things that I've learned if you're interested, I hope it helps you to continue working hard and stay fixated on your goals:
1) When they tell you to practice for several hours a week, it is absolutely true. You need to gain experience and a sense of comfortable/familiarise yourself with your craft on a deeper level.
2) Push yourself to achieve things outside of your comfort zone. You have to be in these states in order to grow, and even if you fail you must attempt to learn from your failures. A skill to develop with failure is being able to isolate *what* you failed, *how* you failed it and *what* you can do to prevent the failure that you've isolated. Achieve the three.
3) Study from many, many experts. There's a lot of ingenious tricks that they employ, the path to learn is seemingly never-ending because they also have some unique twist of their own in their style.
4) Ground the fundamental design concepts that formulate the building blocks to design. Some key fundamental areas that helped *tremendously* with posing/gesture was a stronger sense of *perspective, mass forms (breaking forms down into 3D shapes) and basic human anatomy.* These are three basic ones, there are others, but when these online teachers emphasise the importance of these building blocks, it's not without good reason.
From my journey I've come to realise that if you neglect these important aspects, and expect to achieve greatness, then you've set yourself up for failure/disappoint.
Grind these concepts out, and along the way try to *enjoy* the process as much as you can. Hard work, discipline/consistency and commitment is one thing, but desires/enjoyment towards the craft is another. This is important because you may potentially run the risk of burning yourself out, and it's okay (you may need a break), but if you want this to be your future, then make sure you try to secure your passion. You'll definitely understand the significance of this as you grow.
@@wokeupina Sorry about the extremely late message, but I've given the news to Nicolas. Feel free to read, if you're interested.
@@TheAster3 I really appreciate the time You took to answer me, and thanks for the various tips!!
never really saw the point in using basic forms (cylanders, etc) until I saw this video, so thanks
so magically smooth line work. envy you
hey I'm french, I didn't know your chanel and damn that's some good teaching skill you have here. Hope to see more video like that ;)
Excelente o curso que estava faltando gratoo Joaquim raphael
Thanks James Really helpeld Alot!
Motion capture can really help. Carnegie Mellon University has a huge mocap library available for free download. Just search CMU mocap.
1:23 Took me a minute to realize that I have those exact same markers
w/ different lvl
Many thanks for your wonderful tutorials. They are valuable to me.
Nice Tutorial
Ten-second gesture drawings seem very useful! Any tips on how you do them that fast?
Dan Efran the point of 10 second and 30 second gestures is to get rid of all the unnecessary information that a final drawing has. It makes you simplify and draw from instinct and makes you develop confidence in what you're drawing. The end result is something very simplistic but at the same time has a strong sense of dynamism, character and personality!
Agreed, you just have to boil it down to a line of action, the masses and lines for the arms and legs. It's less a matter of trying to be super expedient and moreso a means of just studying the positioning of the body. You'll find that when you do this, the studies will naturally become very quick
I’m on the spiritual enlightenment journey that will ultimately allow me to think “draw” and it automatically happens.
thank you!
You are amazing. Your videos make my helplessness come down. Thank you so much! I wish I knew your channel before!
This one's smooth James! and really educational, thank you soooo much buddy!!!
You make drawing looks easier than it actually is
This is awesome, I never should have slacked on this part, and I am regretting it
Formidable ! Comme toutes tes vidéos ! Merci beaucoup
OH GOOOD! THANK YOU!!!!
amazing video, thank you
boston dynamics just subscribed.
6:36 every skater be like,
yeah that dudes knees really hurt after that jump
Very motivating!
Best vid
Short but very complete
Muito bom não há esse conteúdo no youtubee eo youtubee tem muito conteúdo
..grato Joaquim Raphael
Wow great exercises to consider for working on your gestures! Great video and channel!
Happened to find this by chance. Really helpful especially for a warm up. 👍
Exactly what I was looking for!
Congrats and many good vibes to you!
Sir your quick sketches are amazing
Really helpful
Man, you should write a book that would be great to give more structure to your teaching
wonderful Tutorial ,, which Covers all the aspects of Anatomy , of people in motion as well as in static in micro level in an easy manner and helps us very much..... Thanks a lot for Sharing of Such valuable Masterpice Videos...Expecting more from You Master....... Good Luck And best wishes.......,👍
The content is more than enough! Kudos!
8:10 the previous 2 figures have the right arm of the figure punching but now its the left arm in the 3rd figure?
Talented work. I'll try it.
Very useful!
The anatomy is awesome 💯✍🏽
so simple and so amazing!! greats from brasil.
Those basic parkour movements were unexpected. Awesome video man :D
I love this class, thanks bru
Yup, excellent tutorial James!
I’ve been trying to get into drawing for a few years now but I just can’t start anywhere I rlly want to do Character Design and want to do art more than anything. Any ideas on what to do to start (books, videos, exercises etc)
Excelente gostaria de ver mais e sempre joaquimraphael
Well, you definitely have a subscriber in me. Got a lot to learn.
One word, GOAT!
Best arg video ever
Art
Wow! That help me so MUCH with drawing , thanks so very much
Nice! Thanks a lot, James. Keep on sharing your knowledge. Traditional or digital you rock!
This is the quality ive been searchin. Thanks, mate!
Damn, you are good. Drawing AND EXPLAINING HOW TO DRAW.
Follow the
Por si quieren ver algunas imágenes en Instagram!!!
Rojutcomics
instagram.com/rojutcomics?igshid=1g8vmtzsy0z1p
Great video! Good explination of the principles used!
Wow, I've never seen glass mannequins like those before.
such a genius, glad i subbed ! sigh the more i learn art the further i seem from my goals
i am mesmerized.
Obrigado!
Amazing work! Ty so much!
Congratulations!!! your video is very cliar for me, thank, thank. I'm Chilean so I do not handle English well
Thank you.
Thankyou...❤️❤️❤️..
I'm a small self taught artist ....
And You've been alot of help. 😣
Arigato gozaimasu.
Thank you for everything, very useful x
Your skill is boss. I am subscribed. Thank you for sharing.
How did I not find you before? Good stuff man.
awesome content! Keep it up the great work
Your strokes are effortless and effective. Nice vid, good knowledge being shared here. Subd.
It was pretty cool video. Great info.
I found this video for the stand poses
Bc I stuck i drawing the poses for jojo stands
I love your content, man. Thanks so much.