TotalTempest

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The Indomitable (Summer 2024)

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  • The Indomitable (Summer 2024)
  • The Indomitable (Spring 2024)
  • The Indomitable (Winter 2023)
  • The Indomitable (Spring 2023)
  • The Indomitable (Winter 2022)
  • Sharing the Knowledge
  • The Observant
  • High Roller
  • Technician
  • Geometric Guerilla
  • Tamer of Beasts
  • The Fearless
  • Giver of Life
  • Dimensional Dominator
  • The Relentless
  • Basics Brawler
  • Drawing Prompt: Learning from Mother Nature

  • Drawing Prompt: What's With All the Cows?

  • Drawing Prompt: Who Doesn't Love a Good Meal?

  • Drawing Prompt: Ice Witch's Frozen Construct

  • 25 Wheel Challenge

  • Drawing Prompt: Flora is Fauna

  • Drawing Prompt: In Memoriam

  • Drawing Prompt: Office Wars!

  • Drawing Prompt: Consecrated Critters

  • Drawing Prompt: Reboot Reboot

  • Drawing Prompt: Bardic Band

  • Drawing Prompt: The Moon Really Was Cheese!

  • Everything, a Dragon

  • Lesson 6: Applying Construction to Everyday Objects

  • 250 Cylinder Challenge

  • How do you practice creativity?

  • Drawing Prompt: The Cursed Circus

  • Drawing Prompt: Kaiju Defence Force: Engineer Corps

  • Drawing Prompt: Secret Garden

  • Drawing Prompt: The Goblin Snow Games

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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.

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