Figure/gesture study

Hello, Jl, once again, greatest shows of force and flow into the heads and poses, but still too stiffest, but not most enough of the fiercest movement yet. Why don't you please relax your hands with 47 minutes of 60 second studies?

The reason why you would and could do this idea is because it can and will make your drawings the least stiffest but most fluidest but most flowing. For most details, then I recommend Figure Drawing for All Its Worth by Andrew Loomis for us to read. It has lots of generally amazing material to look up, for the figure drawing basics.

Goid luck to you.

Yes, this is the way forward. This way you learn to think more analytical about the underlying foundations of the pose.

Your final pose already shows the progress.

It does display a very typical beginner's mistake, though. You overestimated the distance between hip and ribcage a bit, thus lengthening the spine and the torso overall.

If you feel your own sides, there are barely 2 inches between ribcage and hip in an upward position, and if you lean to either side, on the inner side they almost touch, barely leaving enough room for a bit of tissue and muscles.

One thing I do different in sketching the foundation, I try to draw them quite controlled already, and adjust the basic form a bit. With the ribcage, you are almost there, you already draw a flat upright egg with the shoulderline above. If you cut off the underside of the egg along the arch of the lower ribs, you pretty much reached all the anatomical detail for the ribcage, that you will ever need. The cutoff is like an upside-down v-shape at the solar plexus, also indicating the centre of the front, at the back, it is just horizontal.

For the hip, I sometimes try to draw a panty slip, like the piece of underwear, and then indicate the hip joints as points, but frankly, I vary the shortcut for the hips quite a lot, depending on the pose. The panty slip shortcut works well, if the belly and groin is visible, as you find the groin by extending a curve along the centre of the belly.

In many poses the buttocks of one side almost hide the groin, then the old circle, or an abstraction of the buttocks is often more convenient to indicate the hip.

All this isn't a must, though. If it is too complicated or distracting now, leave it for later, and keep up with the searching circles.

Just note, that in theory the rib circle is a bit too long without the cut-off, so you need to reduce the distance between hip circle and rib egg accordingly, and might even end up with them overlapping. Which is one part of overcoming the lengthened spine mistake.