5mins poses

Hello! This is pretty good for five minutes, good job! An issue I can see with it is the proportions of the limbs vs. the torso. The arms look really enlongated when you look between them and the torso/stomach. The legs also look to be a bit too long. Other than that, great!

I think your approach to drawing is quite similar to mine. You observe interesting details, look for nice geometric forms to depict them, then once you are satisfied, you look for the next detail and measure and compare proportions and relations from the detail you already nailed down.

The pitfall to this method is, that your selection of details is basically random, and doesn't scale well.

The starting area will usually look ace, but the further away you work yourself, the more tiny discrepancies in measuring will add up, and after a while you will no longer be able to bridge the gap between several clusters of details, without getting into proportions, that just defy human anatomy.

In theory, you could solve that by just constantly measuring ALL the proportions and relations, but without a guiding principle, it will feel like the number of measurements you have to get perfect peeks towards infinity, and you will constantly experience the frustration of having messed up another great start with some really strange proportions, not because you are incapable of measuring, but because you missed that one important relation while focusing on half a dozen other ones.

The cure for me was to get used to some form of systematic abstraction of the human form. I followed a course on proko.com, (Human Figure Fundamentals), that I feel I recommended so often by now, I should go ask Stan for financial recompensation. But there are other abstraction, the Reilly system is often mentioned for example.

The important concept, you won't realistically get towards being able to draw from imagination by simply focusing on getting better at observation. You should instead adapt a two tiered training system, where you adapt a method of constructing the abstract foundation for the human form from abstract principles. And then switch from drawings focused on details to drawing basically only big relations.

If you are really as similar to my style as I think you are, you will always be drawn to details, and will continuously struggle to stay disciplined enough to focus on the big forms, to start from geometry until you built enough of a foundation to allow you to add as many details as you want, without getting lost.

But switching between those techniques will teach your eye to identify the fundamental proportions first, while you compare details. And you will probably have to retrain the abstract side more often, because.... aww, that one detail has such an interesting form, I GOTTA start with that!

So, TL;DR; start drawing robots! Either do a course, or buy yourself an artists mannequin, and try to ignore all the details on the reference, and instead try to draw a mannequin made up from only big simple geometric forms, that happen to be in the same pose as your reference.

It will feel alien at first, (and probably later on, too), but it will help you close a gap that is more important than memorizing one specific proportion.

Also, this is the direct way to drawing from imagination. Search terms: Blocking in, Abstraction of the Human Form (or the human head), Drawing from Imagination.

Hello again!!

Greatest and greatest of jobs on your figure sketch above. I really and completely and totally appreciate the level of boldness and audacity in your figure sketch, in terms of the forces with silhouette, forms, and of course, bone and muscle anatomy. I think that if you could boil these elements down to gesture, I feel that you can and will do anything. Yet, I'm not getting enough of those flexible, elastic, and plastic-y lines, shapes, and forms on your bending chubbiest pose. Why don't you please make that tubbiest pose the most energetic and vital, by sketching 13 more minutes of 30 second poses, all from your shoulders? (26 sketches)

However, even if you're gonna get a lot of greasiest people in your doodles, but it's so much the fast sketches, but it's also drawing a most unified attitude in your storytelling sketches. For most details and facts (and opinions), look into these two free Proko videos down here:👇👇👇👇👇👇