First time drawing a pose...does anybody know the easiest steps how to begin with drawing poses?
How can I create good poses without being 100% dependent on reference pics? Also how do I shade in color on pen and paper?
How do I draw poses?
I'm trying to practice simple poses and basic anatomy but i feel like the sketch is bad, what am i doing wrong?
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Intermediate level artist, 19F, been drawing since I was 8 but haven’t been drawing as much since high school. I’ve never really had much, if any, formal art training outside of school and summer programs for kids, so a lot of my technical knowledge is rather piecemeal. I wanna learn how to do more but most of the tutorials I find online are incredibly unhelpful and just say stuff like “use a line of action” without explaining what that is or how to use it. It’s frustrating to me that I feel restrained to just drawing what I can find references for on Pinterest. I also want to learn how to shade. I do all my art by hand on paper, and again my supplies are also pretty piecemeal to the point where parts of my drawings are done with nice professional looking Arrtx markers and others are done in Crayola, which I’ve accepted as part of my style but again it’s hard to find good tutorials on how to shade with the stuff I use. I’d appreciate any advice and guidance.
I’ve tried general shapes and lines, but the proportions always look wrong and I can’t get the limbs right. Any advice?