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💕 RanWan | Pls do not re-upload or use my art

"The full clean art of the 2ha volume 2 English cover"

Gosh it’s not a quick one but I highly recommend doing pose studies with both live models and from photographs! I love one group in particular called Zeet Studio Sketch that you can find on Instagram- their pose sessions are ones you do have to pay for, but it’s a few dollars for hours of content. They’re themed with costumes and props so you can also practice your fabrics, and they push more comic type poses!! Other than that, there are plenty of free channels and videos on YouTube where models will pose that you can draw from!!

Everyone approaches poses differently, but I think for me as a cartoonist, I prioritize the expression and body language over anatomy at first. So very quick outlines of the gesture that I’m trying to capture, and from there will try to refine them into something that is generally proportional and looks like no limbs are broken, instead of the other way around. If you get too bogged down with how many heads tall someone is, it’s easy to overlook the parts of the pose that are meant to be telling a story.

It’s good to also do these fast- don’t worry about them looking good or anything, especially on your first pass. You’re simply trying to capture the gesture. Later you can go back and add whatever you want.

Here are my early figure sketches- they look stiff and lifeless because I was worried about the way they look and how proportional everything was;

Here are my later sketches once I let go and started enjoying letting the lines flow freely- to me they look much better and more expressive! This was only a few weeks after the sketches shown above;