Hi! The figure drawing tutorial on this site that broke down human figure drawing into consistent steps (1- draw line of action, 2 - add head, ribcage, pelvis circles, 3 - use lines/dots to add in limbs) really helped me.
When I try to apply these same ideas to animal figure drawing though, I'm struggling a lot more. I think in particular I'm struggling with the line of action step - partly because the motion/poses of animals feel like they lend themselves more to s-curves than c-curves and I've been told specifically to avoid s-curves for the human lines of action. Then I struggle a bit because the spine feels harder to define for animals and less expressive of their overall poses when I try to use that as a base for a line of action.
I'm sure some of this struggle is a matter of practice and it will get easier to see these things the more I actually do it, but I just wanted to ask: for folks who do animal gesture drawing, when starting out doing timed sketches, did you typically follow the same basic steps as you do for human figure drawing, or do you break things down differently? Anyone have a good breakdown/lesson they can link me to?
(also, sorry if someone has already asked this here and I missed it!)
