Hey gummyheads these are things I came up with, side note! when I say connected at the clavicle I mean sternum (the pit of the neck), other than that - hope I helped ^^
Like the poses overall, I have to agree that your watercolor one is lovely! :3. I can't see your line of action as Mike has already pointed out. Incorporating a line of action will speed up your process and make your poses more life like. Think about what line would best represent this figure before you put your pen to the paper. Drawing is seeing, we don't draw to see - we already have the picture in our head (that's what I try to do anyway x) Good job anyways!
Hey Gizzy faces are tough, what helped me draw them better was to understand how the skull looked, because whenever you see a face you see their skull! :D It also gives you a hunch of: why does the face have bumps here? The muscle fibres also go in different directions causing things to look round. If you're completely new to drawing the head, start drawing boxes and look at the face proportions eyes usually go in the center of the box and after that you can experiment! Something I've learned the past few months is that we have to learn to love the process - So you might as well experiment on what looks right and wrong. Oh and you can always draw ontop of magazines, try fitting their faces into boxes and draw lines where the mouth line goes around the box or where the ears are placed. I hope you get the idea! Just try having fun with your practice whenever you can, doing things systematically like following a technique like loomis or bridgeman is really helpful but it's also really boring after a while. Keep your drawing spirit alive! :D
Oh and fun fact! The mouth and eye muscles are the same type as your anus, which is pretty cool... I think... eeeehehe
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Great! I was thinking along the lines of storyboarding - stories like in a comic except only with visual storytelling and no text (e.g 6 images telling a story about someone saving someone from drowning). Another thing that could be interesting is if only poses on the site was used to convey the story - to really get to use the poses and think where we could use them in other works outside of croquis.
I feel as though there should be some sort of "I don't feel comfortable critiquing this artwork" or "this has already recieved sufficient critique" button to make it go away for you personally - Because now I sit and skip images people have already raised the ways they can improve and I don't want to echo what has been said or just say good job! to get the images out of my critique section. It's not really that big of an issue but just a thought
I haven't really thought about having breaks until recently, my pinky has started to act up if I sit too long - I usually just put my arm elevated on a pillow after a light stretch and then I use my left hand to browse the web. I've realized that practicing smarter is better than just doing a lot of drawings x) so now I look more than I draw - especially sit and browse artstation and try not getting crushed but inspired by all the amazing artworks.
Hey Nemisis9000, this is why we exaggerate poses - when we construct the forms we lose a lot of life so if you give the pose more fluidity it can come out looking better when you're finished with the drawing. I need to see your drawings in order to see what you mean, have you submitted any for critique?
Hey, I've been putting off telling stories in my images and mostly focused on getting better at drawing - I'm nowhere near where I want to be skillwise but I notice when I try telling stories through my images I do it really poorly, it's almost like I struggle even thinking of ideas just because it was such a long time ago I drew something thinking of story rather than if it looks right. So I had this idea that maybe we could throw together a theme for every week and critique eachothers storytelling at the end of it - for any skill levels of course with like 6 pictures telling 1 story, practicing composition, line of action and different angles. I thought it would be a fun thing to do and motivate people to go the extra mile, after all art is telling story and so little time is put into it (at least on my part) that I feel it would be a fun thing to try out. What do youthink?
Uuuuh, Missliss first of all - these look amazing! the only things I can critique really is that you seem to have been drawing a lot of manga. Have you done any practice on realism? It can be really good to understand how things really look before we stylize them. Also I think you can improve your values - especially on the purple ones, they seem flat because the pants are the same color even under her jacket. Oh and I love the last one, it's one of those I LOVE TO DRAW drawings :D
Hey Holytokes! For just starting out again 5 years later with DIGITAL *uff* (a personal foe of mine) I have to say bravo! I laughed when I saw your frustration at that one sitting pose - I used to do this all the time or writing "Poop" next to them just to emphasize I thought it was poop to the universe ^^. But I later realized it's when we look at our bad drawings and recognize what is wrong we understand where we are weak, so when you do a shitty pose - save it! :-) Other than that I think Sanne already mentioned to use fewer strokes, oh and check out opposing curves - there might be some video on youtube on it (who am I kidding there is ALWAYS things about things on youtube!) Hope I helped!
