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I tried it again and this is the result.

thanks for the feedbacks.

I tried to learn as much as possible from that video and i got that my technique is only a part of the bigger picture. Anyways I do not understand what he is saying, like in the section of intuitive proportions, his "wrong example" does not seem to be negative compared to the good one, because most importanly it is even better than how i usually draw, so I imagine how much of a bad example i would be to him. Anyways i tried again and this is the result. I took 5 minutes because it is impossible for me even to think the right lines (4 seconds for each one is literally light speed mental reflex).

this is my new 1 hour lesson, each image cooresponds at different times signed by the timer. the very last one left me with a lot of problems. I could not understand what parts should be simplified and it ended up being like that. There is something about those legs that makes it more wooden than it is supposed to.

• Idon'tknow edited this post on April 20, 2024 4:25pm.

I know what you are talking about. The worst part is that they lead you to believe that if you cannot understand the pose in less than 10 seconds then you are incapable to be an artist. I even think that not everybody can understand a subject instantly, and that's ok. It took me time to understand that 10 second poses don't teach me a thing, no matter how I try, it felt like I was wasting time.

Hi, i tried collecting as much as feedback i could and i changed my way to draw. If i am not wrong basically all figure studies are basically logo symplifications of the pose from reference, and the more time you have, the more smaller curves you can add to it.

So, this is the result

Hi K1ng0fSugar and welcome. Yes, recieving some feedback will make the process of studying here more enjoyable, because you are going to see a lot of artists that also ask for their feedback by other better artists and so on... and so on....

My first tip, don't use solid shapes before nailing the line of action (got it? like the site...). Although it is important understanding the shapes of a figure, that needs to be learned on a later date. First the simplification must come on its most simple component of any drawing, the line.

The process to draw a pose from a reference is to simplify and exagerate

Since you didn't start doing it after a very long time from what you have told, i suggest you to take at least 10 minutes for each pose after you've dealt with some doodles that make your brain get into the mood easyier. You have to decompose each pose as some sort of curved lines that build in armony the pose of the reference. Practically they should look like a logo when it gets all the little circles defining the curves and the style of the drawing and so on (here is an example).

I might present more examples if you want, but the final result should come out sorta like this. In these kind of poses you should look into the most important line, the one that leads the head to one of the feet, then you draw a line on the level of the shoulders and one on the level of the pubis (where the legs are attached), then you draw each new line to represent the general shape of the pose. Here, a big curve occupies the section of the arm, the upper torso and part of the other arm with only the head sticking out.

If you want to add more to the learning you can also add the shapes on top of the body, making it sorta like this. Doing so you can correct many of the mistakes you can come up with when you had to draw using curves. Here is a video that i can recomend on how it is done