Forum posts by Raissa

Hi there! I will focus about the fluid poses. It seems like you draw the contour of the body and you want to catch the anatomy soon. Forget it when you start your drawing, you can add the muscles and bones later! Start with something like a stick figure, but use very curves lines, like in 'S' or 'C', you can use 'I' too, but don't make them very straight. Vilppu drawing manual starts with simple lines: https://i.imgur.com/2VQESpM.jpg

Study the pose, exaggerate it! In a few lines you must catch the pose, the feeling. Once you have the action captured, you can move to draw the body, start simplifying with boxes and cilynder and finally add muscls and bones. It takes time, but practicing helps. Don't rush.

You can learn a lot from your 1min sketches. Maybe you start to overthink and it gets obvious when you go to 10 or 30 min. Try to simplify the figure into circles, boxes and cylinder. Study a little of anatomy using these figures, study how some of them are covered from the form of the other ones, how they overlap, then, in 1min o 30 sec sketches, try to catch the 3d feeling in simple lines, like in S or C forms. Exaggeration helps a lot. When you know how to use the basic forms, then you can shade, for now, try to simplify and the you can move into something more complex.

I like the 60sec practice. From 30sec I suggest to use more S lines, you can exaggerate the pose to make it more dinamyc, remember that the body isn't a box, so try to avoid straight lines and think on them like circles or ovals, at least meanwhile you learn to know how to overlap, overlaping helps a lot to reach the 3D look.

You catched the dynamic! Looks good, I would suggest to use more loose strokes and try to avoid straight lines, Vilppu drawing book has awesome examples and specially teach you how to get that 3d look.