how exactly did you do figure drawings? or how even are figure drawings done? the way you draw poses & people looks so good, i'm so curious as to has you did it haha
aw thank you!! that means a lot :D
i use a pretty wide variety of things to do them..mostly just to keep it interesting. heres a cool new page i made just for all the stuff i use cuz it made the post super long lol
as for How i do them..im struggling to give any kind of.. guideline? because the process is like quick and intuitive and unique to each artist, not a steady step-by-step kind of thing. i guess i can give u some tips that i wish someone had told me when i started!
its fine if they are weird and messy and ugly! they don’t have to be instagrammable, theyre personal to u, and mostly just practice. if drawing is like running a marathon, figure drawing is running on a treadmill (I GUESS LOL? IDK HOW ELSE TO DESCRIBE IT)
similarly, don’t be precious over them. don’t linger on things like faces/hands, use cheap/disposable materials, don’t collect them all after you’re done..that kind of stuff leads to you subconsciously focusing more on making them aesthetically pleasing and anatomically perfect than on just practicing
you’re probably gonna struggle at first, so maybe don’t start out with the rapid 30-60sec drawings. maybe give yourself a couple minutes extra for each figure until you get used to the process of quickly getting down a figure, then speed it up til you’re capable of doing the normal ‘class mode’
keep your mind open when youre doing it. the whole point of this kind of practice is to figure (heh) out where you were going wrong with anatomy. don’t just mindlessly copy down what you see in front of you. make notes, mental or physical, on what you notice. this builds up ur mental library of intuitive anatomy knowledge!
do it regularly and supplement it with slower, more detailed studies of anatomy! i noticed everything got a lot easier for me once i just spent a couple days figuring out some stuff about how muscles work lol
have fun and be yourself:) But im dead fkn serious. figure drawing is honestly the most fun way of practicing human anatomy and whatever you make while doing it is gonna be totally unique to u! don’t try and make ur own interpretation of the human figure into something generic and instagrammable you’ll be sad ú_ù
for full transparency i guess here’s what mine usually look like lol
ok i can’t think of anything else to add and i’ve been sat here for like 2 hours trying to respond so im gonna leave it at this i think. i hope i helped some!
