Have a try at doing gesture drawings, I usually do 10 thirty second pieces and 10 one minute pieces every day, and if I’m feeling like it 5 two minute drawings.
I also wrote some notes on gesture drawing from what I’ve learned (below)
Overview
When gesture drawing your main goal is to get the feeling of a pose.
When looking at a figure pay close attention to the hips, torso, and head. Overtime this will improve your observational skills as well as your speed and efficiency when drawing.
To begin, draw a line through from the head down to the foot holding the majority of the weight of the figure (just guess it’ll get easier later).
Then form a stick figure, circle of the head, line for the collarbone, line for the spine, connect to hips, then add arms and legs.
Once you begin measuring, erasing, or otherwise improving the drawing, you have ceased to gesture-draw and begun rendering. So keep this in mind.
Landmarks
Being able to locate what are the important landmarks of the figures are is very useful for quickly capturing their gesture. Previously, paying attention to the hips torso and head have been mentioned but these can be looked at deeper.
Look for bony points, things that stay consistent between a lot of people. Such as:
Hips
the front of the pelvis
Torso
the sternum
How long is the ribcage
Collar bones
Head
The brow line, and how it relates to the top of the ear
How is the cranium tilted?
Helpful videos
Gesture drawings help prevent drawings from feeling stiff.
When given enough time, try and add the expression of the figure you are drawing as well.
Since you are going for the feel of the pose, feel free to change it up to make it more clear, or exaggerate further.
Level 1: Idle/Balanced Poses, keep character void of detail for as long as possible until you are happy with the pose, loose lines.
Offsets: Break symmetry, such as tilting shoulders and hips in opposite directions can make the pose more dynamic.
Center of Mass: Imaginary line that splits the character where the weight is on both sides, only matters when character is on the ground.
Face away from camera.
Level 2: Action poses, poses that happen during an action
Flow: break down pose into curves, rising from the ground.
Silhouette: Not all dynamic poses look good, sometimes it can be modified a bit to improve how it looks.
Level 3: 3 Dimensionality
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Foreshortening
Level 4: High field of view, stretches perspective which adds dynamism
Level 5: Framing
Level 6: Secondary motion, anything that moves due to motion or an exterior force. Such as hair
Yeah I’ve been really inconsistent when it comes to drawing which I’ve stated multiple times but uh I tired do an academic comeback with my Spanish class so I took a break however it still didn’t happen but at least I passed ig
Genuinely surprised this thread didn’t close and yeah yikes an 11 month hiatus oop
I’ve seen people do countless art threads that seem to get tons of attention so I’m genuinely curious what I could do to get the same here but I won’t lie I haven’t been motivated to draw daily especially with me finally graduating and starting college next semester
As for an update of what I’ve been up to (mostly nothing) I’ve recently started trying to write a couple stories that’ve been stuck in my head so there’s that and the occasional drawings I’ve done over the months but it isn’t anything crazy
A lil tidbit of lore for this guy is he basically gets abducted by aliens thanks to nasa and has to make his way back to earth so that should be fun to write
Hm, alright. Let’s try Ocea Twalk of the South Faramine isles. Do note: you’re free to reinterpret anything and everything you want, as I’d love some inspiration for her. Change the outfit, backstory—go ham.
Ocea’s family is one of the more influential in the South Faramine islands. Holding ownership to one of the largest repertoires of information in the world, they can learn much about anything. Ocea spends much time studying the magic of the ocean, something few have the opportunity to do.
I’ve envisioned her being in the navy at points, and I feel that she’d look rather dashing in uniform. Again, design it however you like.
