[x]

Browse More Like This

Download Image
PNG, 1000×1481 more ▶

More from *StyrbjornA

View Gallery · View Prints

Featured in Groups:

#stylish-sketches
Sketchin' is love <3

#Tutorials-and-co
Let's practice *___*

#Poses-Centural

#Any-Anime-drawings

#Love-Your-OCs
Give your OCs some love!

#Manga-Art-Lovers
Manga and Anime style art!

#MangaSuki
We love manga and anime

#SexyHotClub

Show all (24)

Details

Submitted: January 16
Image Size: 894 KB
Resolution: 1000×1481

Link

Thumb

Statistics

Comments: 69
Favourites: 2,470 [who?]
Views: 22,350 (4 today)
Downloads: 1,692 (0 today)

[x]

Dynamic Poses Study 1by *StyrbjornA

Resources & Stock Images / Tutorials / Traditional Art / Drawing / Human Anatomy

Other resources

I got really tired of taking so long coming up with a even remotely decent pose, so I am going to take the bull by the horns and start studying the construction of poses a bit more thoroughly. You can expect more studies like this in the coming days.

The idea behind this is to avoid starting with the details. Instead, the concept is something like this:

Locate the joints in the pose, and mark them somehow (small balls in the sketch).

Join the joints with lines, to get an idea about how your pose will look. At this point you will see if the pose is balanced the way you want it to be.

Now is the time to start building the body. Use basic shapes as long as possible - your goal is to add volume to your figure.

If everything looks decent, you can start adding details and work your way toward a final result, which will vary depending on what style and medium you are aiming for.

I want to thank

so much for providing the poses that I used as reference for this. They are SO helpful!

The Artist has requested Critique on this Artwork

Please sign up or login to post a critique.

love 5 5

joy 1 1

wow 1 1

~~mad 0 0~~

~~sad 0 0~~

~~fear 0 0~~

~~neutral 0 0~~

~pumyte Apr 21, 2013

Thank you so much for this! It helped me to understand the perspectives more

~Faerico Apr 20, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Wow there are really helpfull!

~H3R01230 Mar 29, 2013 Hobbyist Artist

OMG...perspective and dynamics just got so easy

*AceOfKeys72 Feb 27, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

I get the feeling you confirmed my way of drawing people. I suddenly have the urge to try doing this more often. and you make a good point: building up volume is important. I'm glad to see I have an idea of what to do

*RatchetJak Feb 25, 2013

This looks definitely helpful. I have trouble drawing the body at times. i've been doing the box stick method only i would draw the head first and detail it. I always try to break the habit but I can't. I really need to work on that. Plus, I sometimes draw the head too big.. :/
But yeah, this method looks pretty simple yet constructive. I'll definitely try it.

Thanks for sharing!

~TapSkill Feb 3, 2013 Professional General Artist

I never quite understood the purpose of drawing less detailed references based on real life references. I understand why you would use a reference to make your art or to practice shading or something like that... but what is the purpose of the pose references? How do they help you?

*StyrbjornA Feb 4, 2013 Student General Artist

Very good question! Drawing pictures like these, for me ast least, serves several purposes. One purpose is that every pose I draw will be embedded into both my muscle memory and into a subconcious database of poses that over time teaches me what looks right, and what does not. Another purpose of these poses is the aim for finding a way to engineer poses from scratch. I believe that "reverse engineering" real life poses might be one way to accomplish this.

~TapSkill Feb 5, 2013 Professional General Artist

Good answer. ^_^

I do not share that muscle memory argument, but I dissect images in my mind all the time. When I look at art on here, I see how those images are made up of shapes and stroke paths. It is actually very fun to dissect art in that way sometimes, but sometimes, I wish I could stop doing it. XD

~Moon-Flower4022 Feb 1, 2013

Thank you so much for providing these. They are very helpful.

*UltimateSketchQueen Jan 26, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Ohh, man. Senshi is awesome with giving great stock poses!
These are awesome, by the way

Thanks for posting!

More from *StyrbjornA

Featured in Groups:

Details

Statistics

Dynamic Poses Study 1by *StyrbjornA

The Artist has requested Critique on this Artwork

The Journal Portal

Polls

What is your preferred drawing software?

deviantART [dee·vee·un'nt·ART]

Keep in Touch!

Deviousness

Add Media

Style