Understanding Forms
© 2024 Sam Dragon
Done as part of a practice session with poses of 30 seconds in length.
My current goal is: Better understand human anatomy, so I can render imagined poses.
I paused these images during my session to practice form and proportion. So far how is it, any critiques welcomed.
Polyvios Animations
Hello again, Sam.
Nice job on clearly but cleanly articulating your forces and gestures over anatomies. Please push yourself. Yet, I'm not even getting enough of your more angular against curvy gestures in your poses yet, so would you mind if you could please draw your lines more lighter with a graphite stick, by working with 11 poses with 29 seconds for each?
The reason why is because, your gestures and straights-against-curves can, shall, and will get to be less stilted but more dynamic, energetic, but fluid. So, if I would just recommend you a YouTuber to you, may I suggest you look at this video from Ethan Becker, please, though he's really, very pointed, but really, very sharp in his approach to tutorials?
https://youtu.be/FCHhNJWzUnc
(No pun intended)
'Good luck to you and your fantastical progress.
Nice job on clearly but cleanly articulating your forces and gestures over anatomies. Please push yourself. Yet, I'm not even getting enough of your more angular against curvy gestures in your poses yet, so would you mind if you could please draw your lines more lighter with a graphite stick, by working with 11 poses with 29 seconds for each?
The reason why is because, your gestures and straights-against-curves can, shall, and will get to be less stilted but more dynamic, energetic, but fluid. So, if I would just recommend you a YouTuber to you, may I suggest you look at this video from Ethan Becker, please, though he's really, very pointed, but really, very sharp in his approach to tutorials?
https://youtu.be/FCHhNJWzUnc
(No pun intended)
'Good luck to you and your fantastical progress.
While your goal is better understanding human anatomy, your line work could use some improvement. I too am working on my line quality, and I've noticed when my lines are more confident I can better render shapes and quicken my workflow. This skill sharpens over time but it's good to practice line quality alone. There's some good tutorials out there for practicing this.
Speaking of shapes, you've done a very good job breaking down the form of the pose and not overcomplicating it. You have clear depth and perception instead of flat lines. One thing I could reccommend is straying a little from round lines in shapes that are straight, such as the legs on the figure towards the top right of the page. This video by Ethan Becker changed a lot of how I simplify my shapes now: &t=321s He's pretty intense and aggressive for his videos, and I typically don't like reccommending Youtube artists, but this video genuinely helped my sense of drawing more than any other piece of advice I've gotten.
Again, you're on the right track for your goal :) I can tell you understand how the shapes and forms of the body work overall, and that's a really important fundamental to drawing.