~Leelee-693

No prob. :]

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Thank you very much for the fav~ <33

Bothering?
You're helping me! :]
Well i have to say that drawing the feet then working towards the head has ALWAYS been a challenge for me, but i will try the line thing that you suggested.

And, thanks for the beginning part where you said that gesture drawing came somewhat naturally... >.< i didn't see it until i finished reading the other parts of the message.

Thanks for helping! :]

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Fear is said to NEVER go away...
It's what you do with that fear than makes you a leader or a follower.
That action with fear is what makes you stand above the crowd.

No problem. :]

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Fear is said to NEVER go away...
It's what you do with that fear than makes you a leader or a follower.
That action with fear is what makes you stand above the crowd.

..... faveS, plural.

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Thank you for the fave!

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COOL! Getting better IS what matters most. I'm glad that you were able to somewhat naturally come to the gesture drawing conclusion. I'm not sure I EVER would have.

just a note that might help out with proportions: I SOMETIMES, but rarely, begin with a center line to get the overall sweeping motion of the figure's stance and to some degree, its height on the page but I almost ALWAYS start with one FOOT or the other. Planting that foot is DEFINITIVE and if you draw up to the shoulders, then add a neck and head after the torso is done, it usually keeps you from drawing the head too large. You can always adjust and tweak it though (I almost always have to tweak these days) because, again, the figure drawing (when you become better acquainted with it) only takes a matter of seconds or, at most, a few minutes, even for a SUPER-DUPER SLOW artist like me.

OK. That's enough bothering you for today. Thanks for listening.

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LMAO. Yeah, i type and read kinda fast. >.<

Well, yes i have done a little research on Gesture drawing...
That stick person looking thing... Yeah, i do it sometimes, but most of the time i just free hand everything. Actually most of the stuff, if not all, are all free handed & w/o that stick thinnggyy. I'm still working out the kinks of Gesture drawing and I'm getting better at it. I actually started doing it a while back when i couldn't figure out how the character should look and move. Progress is slow and my knowledge about the subject is getting somewhere. Strangely my heads always come out bigger & the body smaller... weird. I always start with the head then the body... Oh well i'm getting better at it and thats what matters most.

Oh! thanks for the drawings, i saw them. :]
Again, thanks for the support and i'll be sure the keep growing.

~Julie

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Fear is said to NEVER go away...
It's what you do with that fear than makes you a leader or a follower.
That action with fear is what makes you stand above the crowd.

Hey, I just read your reply. That was QUICK!!!

Anyway, I'm sure that you can find... will find... (have already found?) MUCH better examples but, just after reading your reply, I grabbed a sheet of paper off the scanner and did a quick (like, 4 minutes including scan time--REALLY rushed and REALLY REALLY ugly) gesture drawing for you. It was a bit flawed but I fleshed it out anyway just as a rudimentary example. It's in my scraps, if you'd like to see it. No big deal. REALLY no big deal.

I hope you will go ahead and research it a little bit and try it. It's difficult at first but, when you get the hang of it even a LITTLE BIT, your drawings will be MUCH closer to what you see in your mind's eye and you'll have mastery over what you can put on a page and what you can make your characters do, not to mention their relative height and physique and all of that.

Also, you can produce a gesture drawing in just a few seconds then decide if you like it or not or if it works or not and if it doesn't, it's no big deal to either correct it or scrap it because you really didn't put much time or effort into it and it immediately tells you if you've go what you want. No love lost, no feet running off the page, no heads cut off at the top

Anyway, I really wish you the best and I'll be watching to see how you evolve! I'm EXCITED about it!!!

PIECES!
Rico

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Don't worry about rambling, i do it all the time >.<
Gesture drawing huh?
I'm not completely sure what that is because i am, at the moment, too thick headed to realize it.
As for mastery... I'm not too sure what that is either. No, not because of my vocabulary, i just don't think i really "mastered" anything. Ahahaha. Well, If you haven't noticed by now i'm very hard on myself.
Looks like there will be a bit of research on my end.

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Fear is said to NEVER go away...
It's what you do with that fear than makes you a leader or a follower.
That action with fear is what makes you stand above the crowd.

You and I are a lot alike. What you just said has been my story, to a greater or lesser degree, on two separate occasions in my life.

It's easy to believe when the talent is already there. I'll be watching...

BTW: You should seriously try the gesture drawing technique.

I remember when my friend and I (now a professional comics inker)Dexter Vines first started going to comics conventions. The first industry professional that we met was Brian Stelfreeze. He looked at our drawings and was kind enough to bless us with what we now lovingly and nostalgically refer to as "The GREAT READING", meaning that he looked at our work, said "You guys are pretty good but, let me show you what you're doing wrong" and literally proceeded to read us like a diary.

After that, Brian was kind enough (and insightful enough) to not only tell us what we were doing wrong but to explain and illustrate how to do things correctly and, to this day, the one thing that he offered us that has made all the difference where doing any kind of illustration (including realistic portraiture, caricature, cartooning or comic book super heroes ) of a human or humanoid subject is concerned, is the GESTURE DRAWING. The gesture drawing provides a simple framework that you can build your finished illustration/figure on.

I have to admit that when you're learning how to do gesture drawing, it's a real pain in the butt, however, after you've gotten even a BASIC mastery of it, you'll truly wonder how you ever got along without it!

Anyway, I apologize for going on so about it. I really didn't mean to ramble.

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I think that, for me, it's a struggle due to my lack of focus. That and my lack of experience. I've always drawn, but never took it every seriously until recently. Hopefully once i obtain a focus and a sense of direction as far as drawing goes i'll be able to grow from what i already am. I have to admit i have a long way to go.
I honestly can't thank you enough for believing in me.

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Fear is said to NEVER go away...
It's what you do with that fear than makes you a leader or a follower.
That action with fear is what makes you stand above the crowd.

Well, I'd like nothing more than to see you evolve and grow as an artist. By the way, I actually meant to say that you have the makings of a "PROFESSIONAL artist". Sorry. I was sleepy.

Anyway, I know how it is. I haven't drawn in.... Lets just say "several years" and now it is a struggle. That's why my gallery is so anemic. I joined deviantArt during one of my false start attempts at a "COMEBACK" but now, I've gotten pretty serious and I've got a few new projects that are... well, not so great, but they're almost ready to post.

In the meantime I hope you're able to gain momentum and become more than you even suspect you can and I hope that you don't fall into the same problems and traps that I did.

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OMG thanks so much. :]
I have to say that it's nice to have some one support me. Since i haven't been drawing in a while, the advice from friends hasn't been so steady.
Thanks again.

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Fear is said to NEVER go away...
It's what you do with that fear than makes you a leader or a follower.
That action with fear is what makes you stand above the crowd.

KEEP DRAWING!!! TRY NEW THINGS! You've got the makings of an artist!

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thanks for the fac

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thanx Juju

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Thanks kindly for the !! Much appreciated!!

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Sankyuu for the favs<3

Thank you for the fav!!

thanks for the faves!

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Fear is said to NEVER go away...
It's what you do with that fear than makes you a leader or a follower.
That action with fear is what makes you stand above the crowd.

Thank You So Very Much For Your Miss Juju !!!!
Have you down loaded the latest version of your scanner/ printer software?

Thanks for the fav

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Thanks for the +fav!

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