kikkiling

Geometric Guerilla

Joined 5 years ago

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kikkiling's Sketchbook

  • Sharing the Knowledge
  • Geometric Guerilla
  • Tamer of Beasts
  • The Fearless
  • Giver of Life
  • Dimensional Dominator
  • The Relentless
  • Basics Brawler
  • Lesson 3: Applying Construction to Plants

  • Regarding contours on forms

  • any art books that empathizes heavily on spatial reasoning?

  • Lesson 5: Applying Construction to Animals

  • Lesson 4: Applying Construction to Insects and Arachnids

  • Transitioning from drawabox to schools like CDA

  • Is there a way to draw "oval cylinders"?

  • 250 Cylinder Challenge

  • Lesson 5: Applying Construction to Animals

  • Lesson 4: Applying Construction to Insects and Arachnids

  • How often should I reread the exercises and lessons?

  • Lesson 3: Applying Construction to Plants

  • Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction

  • Partial Lesson 2 Submission (1 / 7 exercises)

  • 250 Box Challenge

  • Partial 250 Box Challenge submission

  • Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

  • Partial Lesson 1 Submission (1 / 10 exercises)

  • Partial Lesson 1 Submission (1 / 10 exercises)

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Michael Hampton's Gesture Course

Michael Hampton's Gesture Course

Michael Hampton is one of my favourite figure drawing teachers, specifically because of how he approaches things from a basis of structure, which as you have probably noted from Drawabox, is a big priority for me. Gesture however is the opposite of structure however - they both exist at opposite ends of a spectrum, where structure promotes solidity and structure (and can on its own result in stiffness and rigidity), gesture focuses on motion and fluidity, which can result in things that are ephemeral, not quite feeling solid and stable.

With structure and spatial reasoning in his very bones, he still provides an excellent exploration of gesture, but in a visual language in something that we here appreciate greatly, and that's not something you can find everywhere.

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