Forum posts by Eirik87

Iwilldoit, your lines definitely have some nice flow to them. Try to observe and be aware of the proportions of the different parts of the body on the longer poses. Especially the back of the seated lady is very large, while the waist and butt is very small :)

Welcome to the site and the world of drawing :D ! I'll keep a lookout for your submissions and critique them as best I can :)

I saw a Youtube video by Ethan Becker called Fail your way to drawing better. That really spoke to me, as fear of failing is what, in my case, causes a lot of procrastination.

You have a very nice fluidity to your figure drawings, and I love the exaggerated figures! I second Kraven's advice, but keep your loose and free line :) It seems that you have done more figure sketching than faces, which is fine. Depends on what your goal with art is. Right now it seems like the figures and the faces are drawn by two different people xD Like one is shy and one is confident.

We have the same bad habit of using too many lines in our sketches! :D

Don't get me wrong, some extra exploratory or constructive lines is good in early drawing stagesm, but we tend to end up with a lot of them. Struggling to commit to a few stronger lines. I don't really know how to get rid of the habit other than being aware of trying to draw cleaner.

To end with the good: Very nice flowing shapes and good proportions!

Keep it going!

Hey Cochet!

A lot of drawings here so I wonæt comment on everything but here are three concrete tips:

1. Try to push the opposing angle principle of the shoulders and hips. We tend to stiffen up our poses the longer we work on them. Starting with a quite exaggerated gesture can be helpful to alleviate some stiffness later on :)
2. Try drawing the rib cage/torso circle as an ellipse instead of a circle to avoid the small torso that you commented on one of your drawings. The rib cage is kind of egg shaped so this should be a no-brainer.
3. Be aware of line weights. Using variety in line weight really brings depth to sketches. Add thickness/darken lines where one body part goes in front of another, where a body part sits on the ground or in general lines of "edges" (" as there are few hard edges on a body) that face away from the light source. Usually the ones facing downward. I also tend to draw lighter at the apex of sweeping curves. Not sure if this is a good thing, but at least it gives some variation ;)

Oh, and bonus tip no. 4. Practice practice practice ;)

Hey Mike!

I see you've got some good tips already. Just want to adress your lines and flow.
You put in quite hard clear lines which is both good and bad :) The good thing is you get a pretty clean result. The bad thing is that you lose the exploratory loose lines that are often used in gestures, which make you feel the poses better, and make them more dynamic.

Also, Don't be afraid to use a combo of both "skeletal" lines and conture lines in gestures. Also wrapping section lines, to connect this to HornetofJustice's tip about using cones and cylinders etc.

Stay loose. Don't be precious about the sketches!

Keep it up!