Forum posts by Idon'tknow

please. send them as imgur links. you just need to go to https://imgur.com/ and them click on + NEW POST. sending images is only for the premium members.

In all of the art tutorials I've seen the example of using a stickman has always been a problem for me, it is all ok when the body is just presenting towards the camera, but from a different angle? It's ok when they have to display a simple example to the viewers that never heard of figure studies, but they never do it to a pose like this. How am I supposed to draw that?

something really important, if you start with a 3d mannequin you'll end up only hating yourself. It's too early to learn any of that. think about 2D first and just use curves that compensate multiple body parts sorta like this. And second personal suggestion: do not follow proko, they have the tendency to jump the important steps and so when you have genuine questions to ask you get nothing.

Hi, i just ended 250 boxes from the course "drawabox", i thought i could talk about it here since it has been well known. When i first started my lines were more straight using the ghosting method that was taught me by the site; but when i do them at the end of the challenge my hand slightly changes rotation and it makes me do weird S lines or more often than not I trace multiple lines as correction for my wrong assestments of perspective.

Ok, I never thought of that I'll try it out @Katt . Thanks

With all respect, "nuh uh" I tried to adopt Mahatma's tip and now i decided to make them differently. Here is thge result https://imgur.com/a/H39D0QJ .

But thanks anyways

Hi, my problem is that i pull a lot of lines on paper. and many of them are just wrong or end up making the pose completely wonky. i asked someone before but i got no answer so please tell me how can i learn avoid wasted lines.

I can see it clearely. first of all, Hi Jttheallison. I can see you tried to copy the pose as they are with all that pesky anatomy to take account and that's not a good thing for us beginners. Do not even care using 3D shapes at this stage. treat each pose as it is a logo ready to be simplified. That way you'll work on the basic aspect of figure drawing wich it is capturing the energy of the pose and then its weight. https://imgur.com/a/BjQtSDu

Hi, Syrella. Since you seem to know a thing or two about avoiding waisted lines. how can I build that skill?

Hi Lumi, let me ask you this "how much experience do you have in shapes with 3D perspective?" it is a really important question since a lot of tutorials think you already knew this so they bring up things like "use mannequins" or "turn the body in a bunch of boxes" but they do not work if you don't have a really sharp understanding of perspective.

I tell you this because I genuinely know nothing about perspective at the moment and all those tutorials gave me terrible results. One good advise, DO NOT LOOK AT THE MANNEQUIN YET! just follow the arms and legs as some sort of disjointed lines as they start from the houlder to the point of the hand (same case for the legs). Use simple S or C curves and do not care about each muscle, this is not time for anatomy yet.

• Idon'tknow edited this post on August 15, 2024 10:33pm.

Hi, your practice studies tell me you dedicate too much effort for the wrong reasons. You usually use straight lines the entire time and I am sorry to tell you but that's not enough, straight lines are really rare to see, unless you either want to really want to simplify or the pose itself really is that static.

Next point, simplify more, dont draw the legs as the different curves that make it, just draw a triangle as the thighs and a line for the rest of the leg to attach the foot as a triangle after (triangle if it is shown from the side and a trapezoid if shown from the front.)

Next thing, the shapes of deconstructing the pose are wrong, they are in the middle of being two dimensional to kinda respect a third dimension. Try drawing the torso as a clessidra, you first find the line that connects the shoulders and the other one for the legs.

Finishing off be aware of the proportions, a head and the torso together should be as long as the legs. The head should also be big enough to be half of the distance the shoulders

Hi, I these is my latest attempt at a 30 second pose drawing and I feel like there is supposed to be a better technique to trace clearer lines. https://imgur.com/a/515WWdO

Hi, i chose this class because it has many members and to me that might be a good possibility to get feedback on my recent works but I don't know if i can post the images here or i need to pay a premium membership to do it.
I hope to get a response soon.

After a while a tried again, i hope it is an improvement. it took me 5 hours of attempts to make it. https://imgur.com/a/IE8louc

The title of the video is straight forward. Trying to simplify the body in shapes i came across this pose and no matter what i do i can't find the right shapes. this is my attempt and the image of reference right next to it.

My latest post didn't recive any criticism so if you want also to see this one session, answer there too.

thanks for the attention