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All is welcome!

• Root edited this post on February 7, 2024 6:19pm.

New month, new grind!

This is February's thread. Feel free to post and share your drawing practice and studies.

Make sure to give feedback as well whenever you can :)

• Root edited this post on February 7, 2024 6:07pm.

Hi everyone, I hope you are all having a nice day.

I recently discovered there's a setting that allows us to create "Study groups"! However, I wasn't sure if the ones that already on the site were active or not, so I decided to create one.

I have really enjoyed the forum, and was surprised at how many people post daily. So this club could be somewhere we all:

· Post our drawing practice and encourage each other

· Exchange feedback or general advice

· Share our favorite artists or references.

· Hold monthly events for discord draw-alongs!

· Hold monthly events for drawing prompts.

· And get to know each other while making the site more active!

Sounds like a great idea right? Come and give it a shot! (Will be adding more content soon :P)

Exclusive invitation into the cool kid club

Welcome to The Doodle Club!
My name is root, and I created this club with the intention of sharing my daily studies with others, give each others critiques, and maybe even draw along each other!
Feel free to join and post your creations, or just vent about your artistic struggles.

• Root edited this post on February 7, 2024 6:06pm.

Hi there! I think you are doing good. As you said, some poses can't be captured with just boxes. But by identifying the main structure, it's easier to "carve out" the rest. Last image you provided shows you have a nice understanding of perspective too.

As for "being on the right track", I'd say so. But it doesn't matter how we feel about that, it's you who needs to think this or that exercise are useful. If you can't decide, how about drawing a couple poses the way you are used to, and then repeating them with the shapes method? Maybe that would help you picture which methods are working for you and which aren't!

Keep up the good work :)

Hello again! Say, Polyvios, I wanted to thank you for your feedback. I tried going for a couple two minute sketches as you suggested. It was very useful!!

I decided not to focus on anatomy so much, and drew more losely. I Drew more bold shapes and also switched to a softer brush. This is the result:

https://imgur.com/a/KYRoLq2

Although it is the first time trying this new method, I think my lines have become more fluid and the poses are much less static. Still have a long way to go, but this helped me get over my frustration.

I'm so very grateful for your advice. Definitely incorporating this into my routine.

Have a nice day.

Hi everyone!

Today was one of those days where my hand wouldn't cooperate with me.

I did one 30 minute class, these are some of the doodles I attempted. Im mainly really unhappy with the 10 min pose. I included the ref image so it would be easier to compare. I feel like my lines have become more confident now because of practice, but... agh I don't know!! My poses are too stiff. Could anyone give me some feedback on what I did wrong/what to improve? I just couldn't understand the structure of the last pose...

https://imgur.com/c4gWFyp

All critiques are welcome! Thank you in advance :_)

Hi there! Good job so far!

I have one piece of advice: try not to draw what you see directly. Don't focus on details, but try to capture the "feel" of the pose.

Get some photo references, trace their structure. Identify the torso, limbs (just draw the joints) and hip. It's rather a boring exercise, I know, but I feel like that's what helped me the most at first. Take it easy and have fun with it! Maybe try to then replicate what you traced, start building the figure from zero while looking at the structure you identified.

Keep practicing! :)

Hi there!

Great work so far :) I thought I would share some ideas that came to mind when looking at your drawings. First of all: try not to beat yourself up over not being consistent!! That's what practice is for.

Here's what I would do:

· Try to identify three poses you did which you are not totally happy with. What do you notice about them? Is it the proportions? Are they too rigid? Do you think you understood the structure of the poses correctly?

· Give them another go! Try to find the images you worked with, or similar poses. Break them down into simple shapes and take your time. Bean it out!! Don't go into much detail, just enough to help you understand where the main masses are. Does it look better? Great! Does it not? That's great too! You can compare them to your initial attempts and see which areas you got right and which parts could use a bit more work.

I'm no pro but I hope this helped :)

Just wanted to drop by and say thanks for all the advice!

I found the book from Morpho on fat and folds very interesting (it was easy to find online too :P). Still, some of the drawings were a bit difficult for me... so I went back to basics: trying to break down everything into very simple shapes. This helped me understanding the structure underneath much better. Upon reviewing some of my recent drawings, I realize my main problem is with understanding volumes: when I have to draw a tummy, or breasts, they don't come out right. Muscles I find easier to picture, because I can identify the edges better (maybe because I'm more familiar with them in my head?). So far what I'm doing is:

· Looking at other people's drawings and studying how they break down skin folds, breasts, butts, all that good stuff.

· Focusing on identifying the main shapes and breaking down the models I had most trouble with.

· Studying my disgraceful attempts to figure out where I went wrong, and giving them another shot!

Hoping this helps others who might struggle with bumps and lumps like me. :)

Hello! I'm new to line of action. I've been practicing for a few days, and I have noticed I'm lacking some basic anatomy understanding. I have a general grasp on proportions, but when I look at my drawings I notice I have trouble understanding how "meat sticks to bone" (does that make sense lol?).

Whenever I'm trying to draw a model with a lil more curves, I can't figure out their basic form. I think it's because I have mostly focused on old-school references which depict stereotypical bodies. And that's no good! So I was wondering, does anyone have any advice?

I would appreciate if anyone could drop their top secret resources that helped them get a better understanding on how the body "connects" or the volume of muscles and mass works.

Does that make sense? I hope it does :) ty