Forum posts by Spicierleaf

These look really nice!

Working on slightly bigger paper, so you aren't cramping the figures in, may help some amount. Aside from that, I unfortunately can't say much else. I'm sure someone else with more experience could give you more advice.

Oftentimes when figure drawing or planning for a project I'm trying to really think about what I'm doing and focus, so I'll work without music. But when doing other things like painting or doing flat colors (digitally), I'll listen to really anything, and I think it helps me keep focused. I never watch videos though. I don't know how other people do that without getting distracted by either activity, watching or drawing.

Hello!

Your proportions look pretty good to me :)

If you can, it may be better to do your gestures on paper rather than digitally - digital is convenient, but on paper you usually have more space to spread out and can use more of your arm. I think that would help you a lot and that loosening up would help you get back into it. Something like thick charcoal or graphite can feel really powerful and freeing, just nice overall to make some big strokes, which in turn (for me at least) makes more fluid motion.

If you're looking for something more specific to focus on, I'd say trying to think about the forms and shapes of the figure - thinking more 3d rather than 2d (though I suppose that's pretty general too).

Best wishes!

Thank you so much! I was definitely uncomfortable with my page size, but I have some very large newsprint paper that I hope to start using more often. I really appreciate your input.

Thank you for your reply as well!

I'll take the tutorial, and keep practicing of course. I didn't think of it before but that is definitely a weak point of mine.

I'll definitely go watch them, thank you.

Thanks for the reply. I'll certainly keep that in mind, and take a look to see if there are perhaps any books by him I could read to improve.

I've been drawing for a few years and have recently come back to figure drawing for a different purpose than before. When I first started my main goal was to get a decent foundation in form and proportion, but now I'm looking to improve my work overall and focus on fluidity. If you have any advice to give critiques, I would greatly appreciate it!

Here are some recent ones:

https://imgur.com/a/lixkKyk

https://imgur.com/a/boK9Qf1

Thanks :)