LINE QUALITY - a simple mindset shift makes all the difference

[@mishan3168]

Why I am not good enough yet? You just need a hundred more practice sessions. This is really what I was need to hear now. Thanks 🖤

[@shriyasamala4771]

Thank you so much for your videos. I genuinely mean it. I've done the fresh eyes challenge 2 months back and I've been practicing more and more since then. Now I see the ribcage angle and relationship between the torso much more intuitively and I wholeheartedly believe it's because of this channel! There's a mountain to climb ahead but it's nice knowing that I'm gearing myself up with the right tools :)

[@DBCooper01]

Same, I did the fresh eyes challenge and my anatomy skills improved in ways I didn't even think was possible.

[@lovelifedrawing]

Wonderful!

[@argentaegis]

I've been drawing as a hobby for 18 months. Like anything else consistent, challenging, practice is the key to improvement. One quick drawing and I average about 4 drawings a week. I keep it as my lowest priority task, but when I have the choice between relaxations, I pick drawing. The rule is to pick an image. Work quickly. Being able to tell myself its a "just a quick one" lets me relax about mistakes and do a complete iteration of the practice in modest time. At the end, I show it to someone, normally my wife who has always been an artist, so can give useful feedback. While I'm very good at seeing things, holding an image in my mind and spotting where something has gone wrong, I don't have an artistic background (software engineer by trade), so it's good to have external feedback. When I started, I was at the "I hope it's a human", standard. I moved on to the "guess the gender" game. In which I would present a drawing and ask my wife (who didn't see the source image) to tell me the gender. Gender and action. Some time in here I started picking "odd" poses on occasion. Ethnicity. At the start of this sketchbook (I use 100 page sketchbooks as milestones) I started alternating with faces. I pick headshots of famous people and ask her to guess who they are. They're getting better, and she's guessing them more. I might start on some deliberate "line quality" work next, as I'm a bit scratchy. You might find a different drawing game useful, but this one has worked for me.

[@jadoaesra3011]

I'm coming at this from the opposite perspective I think most people will be. I first learned to look for the flow when doing a gesture drawing rather than the analytical steps you mentioned, and all of those were completely new to me. so for that, thank you very much. regarding the phrase drawing the verb, using an abstract phrase to teach people who need help with abstract concept might hit a few road bumps. the phrase that helps me the most was, zoom out. make the reference image very small if you need to. hold it at a far distance if you're having trouble. instead of drawing the parts, draw the curves the parts make together.

[@myczycz]

Me too; for me, the concept of flow and drawing the movement/rhythm was very intuitive from the very beginning, but I struggled a lot (and still struggle) with more analytical drawing. It's interesting how people can come to art from completely opposite directions, and need to combine both perspectives to succeed.

[@mathewolusojiomolade3445]

This is a new page for me to know better

[@squidy2522]

beat channel for figure drawing advice very clear

[@PepperDeVillle]

I appreciate it so much. I learned gesture drawing as some sort of nonsensical swoop that is supposed to capture the vibe or some wishy-washy concept, and it has never aided me in producing a successful drawing. I never understood what a gesture drawing was even supposed to be. Your approach is so much more helpful. It makes sense now. There can be some emotion in the gestures, but the gestures should capture actual information about the subject.

[@chrisilverlace]

I would have liked to have teachers like you when I was an art student. Life drawing lessons did not include any "teaching"! if you were good you were lucky ☺otherwise you were on your own. Thx Kenzo!

[@argentaegis]

This appears to be very common in structured class settings. I've heard it from a few people with much more artistic experience than I, and it's one of the reasons I've not taken such a class in person. Articulating technique is pretty hard, as so much of it is in muscle memory and non-conscious eye-mind learning. It's all "right-brain" pattern matching stuff and converting it into left-brain instructions is hard. It's probably why there's so much metaphor in art instruction.

[@sylvain_st_pierre_2019]

Learned so much from you since a few years. Cannot thank you enough.

[@lovelifedrawing]

Thanks for all your support Sylvain!

[@violetsprite]

Thumbs up for the “Cool Runnings” reference 😂

[@joesaab1830]

Great session! New concept: drawing the verb! 👍

[@marysuze]

Very helpful

[@MAXIMThefirstandlast]

Thank you so much!!

[@anotherstranger1273]

Super helpful and the timing for this video couldn't be better 😅 I was just learning gesture, thank you for these videos

[@XD-rd8zd]

great vid - again!

[@lwitiko_the_creative]

thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[@nileshnikaljeart]

Hello there.Your videos are so genuinely informative and useful. I would love to know your perspective on executing larger drawings (say life size) for painting, especially when likeliness of the seater matters. Since using KZbin I haven't found any video on this problem yet. But I'm still wondering whenever I visit museums and see the size of those paintings.😅 I am hoping you can solve this problem. Thank you. :) **Other artists suggest to use grid. But it doesn't make me feel good as it doesn't give me that sense of achievement in drawing or I just don't enjoy that process.

[@lovelifedrawing]

that's an interesting question. i don't work big enough to have an answer for you i'm afraid!

[@nileshnikaljeart]

​@@lovelifedrawingoh..any suggestions ?