Emily So

Drawing: Foundations of Figure Drawing

Hi Nina!Thank you so much for sharing your work! It all looks really excellent. Your lines seem very free with their movements and the visceral feel you're getting from the poses is translating very well into your drawings!Your S-curves really make your figures look organic. There's a nice sense of flow with your lines and how they communicate the anatomy, the expressions and poses. Very impressive work!Sorry that the link provided doesn't work anymore - I'll go back in soon and make sure they do!The one pose I see that seems most challenging is the figure in 3 quarter view and appears to be walking with their left hand up. Your definition of ribcage and pelvis is great. I'd say mostly it's the angles, like for the front foot and the orientation of the pelvis. The soles of feet posed like the front foot often have their angles mistaken, since our brains get tricked so much with the discrepancy between our preconception of what a foot looks like, and what our eyes are actually seeing. Mostly the clockhand method with the angles would probably help.The angle of the pelvis probably needs to be more straight horizontal, or slanted the other way compared to how it is currently slanted, for the same walking figure. The leg in the back could have its 3d contours (rings around the leg) more curved/pinched, and skewed to our right, to really make the back leg feel more properly angled. I hope that makes sense?Thank you so much for your hard work and for sharing your figure drawings with us! I really appreciate your participation in this course!

I followed along with the examples in the lessons and also used Line of Action (since the link provided doesn't work anymore)
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