i do this to practice a bunch for 20 to 30m mintues but.... i feel im not getting any better or getting anywhere, dont know if doing it right or wrong
I completely fail when trying to start with a "stick figure". I always gotta do something else, like use ovals and spheres to represent the parts of the body, rather than the "sticks". I dunno, I draw the stick figure, and there's just no "3D" to it, so it distracts me from the pose I was trying to draw and it starts looking like a different pose. It's kind of hard to "forshorten" with stick figures..
Thanks for the video. I am now learning gesture drawing (reading "The Natural Way to Draw" by Nicolaides) and wasn't sure if I am doing it the right way since I don't have anyone to help me. Your video helped me a lot.
Did you try forcing proportions on your tablet driver? Once this is enabled the tablet will feel very similar to pen and paper and you should be used to it right away.
at about the 8 minute mark, you're talking about how you can't turn your image to draw on a tablet. One trick I've seen and use myself, is using the image->adjust and rotating it 45 or 90 degrees so I can get the lines I'm after, then I just reverse the rotation afterward to put the image back upright.
I do that sometimes. It is so much easier in Painter X. You can hold cntrl alt space and spin the canvas in real time. Also cs4 lets you do that, and with an intuos 4, you can do it with the wheel on the tablet.
Right, the downside is I'm on an older computer, and with CS4, using the rotation function requires openGL rendering to be enabled, which, consequently, lags the crap out of my machine.
@architectus777 Nowadays, photoshop CS5 has an option to rotate the canvas also. Like, Hold R and click/drag/rotate.. Then to put it back to default. Hold R and click the button to return to default rotation. Pretty useful if you use photoshop like me. (Yes, I realize the comment I'm replying to is a year old..)
Last semester at school we did alot of work with gesture drawings, I had a really fun time too, I love the human form, so it was nice getting away from having to do landscaps and plain still life (glass bottles) Though one of our teachers stood in different poses to help the students out. Normaly I draw the body when I'm just sitting around thinking. I draw strange though, I'll do the head and shape/lines, but in the shoulders and legs and hips I always to the quick muscle structure as well.
that was awesome! now do one of a platform heel! =) lol...no seriously
stacymonique 3 weeks ago
i do this to practice a bunch for 20 to 30m mintues but.... i feel im not getting any better or getting anywhere, dont know if doing it right or wrong
spartano305 8 months ago
I completely fail when trying to start with a "stick figure". I always gotta do something else, like use ovals and spheres to represent the parts of the body, rather than the "sticks". I dunno, I draw the stick figure, and there's just no "3D" to it, so it distracts me from the pose I was trying to draw and it starts looking like a different pose. It's kind of hard to "forshorten" with stick figures..
txfnero 1 year ago
Thanks for the video. I am now learning gesture drawing (reading "The Natural Way to Draw" by Nicolaides) and wasn't sure if I am doing it the right way since I don't have anyone to help me. Your video helped me a lot.
firedragop1 1 year ago
how long did you need to get used to tablet?
VTun1ng 2 years ago
a week of using it all the time. But it took a few months before I had a good level of control over my strokes.
architectus777 2 years ago
@architectus777
Did you try forcing proportions on your tablet driver? Once this is enabled the tablet will feel very similar to pen and paper and you should be used to it right away.
thyroid99 1 year ago
Thank you this really helped
vaizards 2 years ago
@ 8:00 I know what you mean... lol
thats the main problem with the tablets
ArturShapiro 2 years ago
at about the 8 minute mark, you're talking about how you can't turn your image to draw on a tablet. One trick I've seen and use myself, is using the image->adjust and rotating it 45 or 90 degrees so I can get the lines I'm after, then I just reverse the rotation afterward to put the image back upright.
Give it a shot.
verias 2 years ago
I do that sometimes. It is so much easier in Painter X. You can hold cntrl alt space and spin the canvas in real time. Also cs4 lets you do that, and with an intuos 4, you can do it with the wheel on the tablet.
architectus777 2 years ago
Right, the downside is I'm on an older computer, and with CS4, using the rotation function requires openGL rendering to be enabled, which, consequently, lags the crap out of my machine.
verias 2 years ago
@architectus777 Nowadays, photoshop CS5 has an option to rotate the canvas also. Like, Hold R and click/drag/rotate.. Then to put it back to default. Hold R and click the button to return to default rotation. Pretty useful if you use photoshop like me. (Yes, I realize the comment I'm replying to is a year old..)
txfnero 1 year ago
Last semester at school we did alot of work with gesture drawings, I had a really fun time too, I love the human form, so it was nice getting away from having to do landscaps and plain still life (glass bottles) Though one of our teachers stood in different poses to help the students out. Normaly I draw the body when I'm just sitting around thinking. I draw strange though, I'll do the head and shape/lines, but in the shoulders and legs and hips I always to the quick muscle structure as well.
Oritasho 2 years ago