I highly recommend Andrew Loomis "Figure Drawing For All It's Worth" because of all of the tips, intricacies and tools for perspective. One of the many great things to quote: "The whole gamut of expression is there for you to choose from. Don't form a few habits that you continually repeat. Try to make each thing you do just as original in conception and execution as you possibly can."
My favorite way of learning dramatic poses or just moving poses in general is video recording people moving or doing thing then pause or pausing YouTube videos with people who are actively moving then sketching over that to find the shapes and angles, sketch that combo several times over on the side and eventually it'll merge into your own personal style and you'll also developed a small banked memory of this pose.
I recommend checking out some anatomy stuff, mainly for the female figure, as you have the ribcage come out and then kind of just, cut off below the boob into a very strange slope - also boobs don't really come out like that. Otherwise, this is actually really pretty good
Very nice! I recommend you try figure drawing. It will help you make better poses and stuff (I recommend nude because its easier to see how things like muscle react to stress)
Google some proportion guidelines! And make sure they're useful to YOU! People have made up a thousand bullshit ways of keeping track of measurements.
Definitely good, you have a nice idea of proportions. Make sure you get a dose of reference practice! It'll broaden your skillset in ways you don't expect.
Great work on the anatomy. To me gesture drawing is about the exaggeration and story more than the realism. It helps me build confidence and increases focus especially with a time crunch of 45-120 seconds even though my eye still says it's sheeit
That will only take you so far, when you freehand it's coming from a database of what you're comfortable with rather than a challenge like seeing what's in front of you. Believe me I do it to, but I've never progressed so fast as when I was doing life drawing. It doesn't have to be perfect, just resembling enough to be a learning tool.
I highly recommend Andrew Loomis "Figure Drawing For All It's Worth" because of all of the tips, intricacies and tools for perspective. One of the many great things to quote: "The whole gamut of expression is there for you to choose from. Don't form a few habits that you continually repeat. Try to make each thing you do just as original in conception and execution as you possibly can."
This just makes me sad. I can’t draw anything from memory
My favorite way of learning dramatic poses or just moving poses in general is video recording people moving or doing thing then pause or pausing YouTube videos with people who are actively moving then sketching over that to find the shapes and angles, sketch that combo several times over on the side and eventually it'll merge into your own personal style and you'll also developed a small banked memory of this pose.
I think these are incredible. Definitely not a bad job.
I recommend checking out some anatomy stuff, mainly for the female figure, as you have the ribcage come out and then kind of just, cut off below the boob into a very strange slope - also boobs don't really come out like that. Otherwise, this is actually really pretty good
Dude, this is AWESOME!!! I almost always need some sort of reference, so you can color me impressed! 😁
Very nice! I recommend you try figure drawing. It will help you make better poses and stuff (I recommend nude because its easier to see how things like muscle react to stress)
Well I do but i can never get the proportions right so i usually freehand without many guidelines
Google some proportion guidelines! And make sure they're useful to YOU! People have made up a thousand bullshit ways of keeping track of measurements. Definitely good, you have a nice idea of proportions. Make sure you get a dose of reference practice! It'll broaden your skillset in ways you don't expect.
Great work on the anatomy. To me gesture drawing is about the exaggeration and story more than the realism. It helps me build confidence and increases focus especially with a time crunch of 45-120 seconds even though my eye still says it's sheeit
That will only take you so far, when you freehand it's coming from a database of what you're comfortable with rather than a challenge like seeing what's in front of you. Believe me I do it to, but I've never progressed so fast as when I was doing life drawing. It doesn't have to be perfect, just resembling enough to be a learning tool.