Figure drawing is a fun and good way to get better at drawing humans.Some free resources:https://quickposes.com/en/gestures/timedhttps://www.quickposes.com/enhttp://reference.sketchdaily.net/enhttps://quickposes.com/en/gestures/randomhttps://www.characterdesigns.com/non-nude-photo-indexhttps://www.lovelifedrawing.com/tutorials/https://app.posemy.art/https://line-of-action.com/practice-tools/hands-feet-practicehttps://www.rkgk.org/Might as well check the archives and active /ic/ threads for references:https://warosu.org/ic/thread/7019067#p7019080https://warosu.org/ic/thread/2015637https://warosu.org/ic/thread/6864584https://warosu.org/ic/thread/2023233https://4chanarchives.com/board/ic/thread/2015637Previous thread >>7637125
Man i guess fig was dead just when i got backAnyways, i am still figging so I’ll try to keep the thread alive
>>7725122figurativesketching, the gesture, the long axis curve, the fluid like quality, I don't want to feel the form but I want to feel the connections between the forms>>7725378looking good, /fig/ for life, the thread wants to fall off the catalog before it even starts, dang
>my shitty sumos made the OPneato. senpai noticed me. i shall draw figures..... ALL WEEKEND! no excuses
>>7725469they're cool what are you on about
>>7725492i mean, they aint that bad, but i feel i could try harder seeing my peers here being really good
careful with the bulges
What book do I copy to get good at anatomy?
>>7725552anatomy for sculptors for details morpho for easy/simple references
>>7725122Oh thank you for making a new thread.I was too busy I forgot about everything.
>>7725416I really like the fluidity of your lines and posing. Im currently trying to teach myself gesture drawing.Not full figure drawing but I did some 1 minute sketches of hands and feet. I butchered the hands but I think i did okay on most of the feet.
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>>7725877just keep at it with the hands, it'll click eventually. i've been trying to do them with the bones in mind so the placement is logically sound. you should try to draw some skelly hands from reference and then memory just to ingrain the anatomical design, helping you to draw real hands. but your feet look good. thank god the toes arent as complicated as fingers
anyone want to join me in a challenge?let's draw 100 gestures/figures (any level of finish/detail, only requirement is that they are complete)
athletic ladies are nice to study from
Love me some figure drawing. I really shouldn't skip the face though..
reecent study on drawpile. I love figure drawing.
i haven't drawn in a couple months, trying to get off the rust
>>77253789/100 The faces got me again>>7725469The sumos are readable and easy to find while scrolling through the catalogue. Also they amuse me deeply which is why they were selected>>7725910> let's draw 100 gestures/figures I’m down, I’ll try to get to 100 before this thread dies. Which is unclear how long that will be. I started counting from my early post in the thread>>7726354These are fucking hot - no homo
>>7726354You will never be Japanese or a good artist
>>7726367thanks for the kind words, tablefren
why do i turn all my vilppu beans into sexy women
>>7726367Almost defeated by 12, the paper was giving up on me and losing fibers>>7727393Did that old fuck die yet? I hate that man so much. He makes me not want to draw.
>>7727395what pencils are you using? It seems you're using a sharp point. I can't go nearly as dark and clean with mine.Also I'm noticing vast improvements over your earlier drawings posted, a lot cleaner in every regard/better readable shapes, so it seems you're quickly regaining your skills. The legs of the middle one seem a little bit off, and the pose is perhaps too exaggerated, the lower back seems to stretch out too much (but then again I don't have the reference so who knows)
random garbage
>>7727504keep on keeping on, its not as bad as you think. confidence can get you really far. in the end, its literally all in the head, what you do and what you perceive, so going in with positivity and a certain amount of chris-chan like delusion can be a lot of help. you have to think like a master to be a master.
I struggle with legs so muchneed to constantly erase and redraw
>>7727689looks cute, no homo. reminds me of kuro from sekiro, but i suspect its gacha? maybe? either way, recognizing ones mistakes is vital, redrawing is not a bad thing at all. if anything its the best you can do, instead of leaving mistakes as they are. try to recognize what exactly it is that you do wrong more often than not and work on that and be aware of it. i personally tend to make long faces stemming from long noses, looking all alien in the end. i tend to do the same with hands, where they are just longer than they should be, instead of compact, closer to spherical when closed, not eliptical.
>>7727707>but i suspect its gacha? maybe?nah it just really like bobcut haircutsi can't draw them for shit so i'm just gonna start putting them on all my studies>redrawing is not a bad thing at all. if anything its the best you can dothe problem is that i keep doing the same mistakesi do plan to do leg study for a while hopefully i'll get something from it at the end of it.
>>7727666thank you I appreciate the advice, it’s true that I should approach drawing with more optimism
>>7727725make sure to study the bones as well, that helps me a lot, just getting the sizes and placement right
>>7727729nobody aims for the gutter when bowling, but you should aim for a strike.
>>772739518/100 where is that other anon who is doing 100 figgies?>>7727439I am using a 0.9mm B mechanical pencil on some cheap toothy copy paper. It’s my goto for worthless pencil sketchesThanks for the crit, glad somebody is double checking my work. I fudged the middle one that you pointed out with the weird legs because i tried to fit it onto the page. I guess it was obvious. >>7727689These legs look awesome
Some daily ones
>>7728363Fuck off, your shit's so good.
>>7728363what is the process for these? looks like you might be using some stick figure as an under drawing idk how to balance the time spent and level of accuracy, do i learn to do fast figures accurate or accurate figures fast?
Man I wish I wasn't eternal /beg/ and I could actually sketch a figure in minutes without worrying about every little detail *but still producing garbage anyways* and tabbing out to brainrot every 5 seconds
i need to plan out my paperspace more with quick size and gesture sketches, so i wont get surprised while i just go at it. still fun and i can just single out limbs and stuff i would want to study better if i want to
>>7728940put the brainrot on autoplay on the side and do figgies on the main screen/part of your screen. i too, need to give my brain something to distract itself with in order to attack my doodling. music, podcasts, audiobooks, youtube etc. music obviously works the best in general, because its ever so light of a distraction and also gives you emotion and energy depending on what you listen to, it can enhance your subject and training.
>>772836321/100 calling it an early night, the noodles girl burned me out>>7728702Post yo figgies>>7728762I mostly do a quick stick to make sure that i can fit the figure onto the page without overshooting it. But otherwise for studies i usually just draw it like a printer and go from the top down.> do i learn to do fast figures accurate or accurate figures fast?I would only go for speed. Do those timed figure drawings. The whole set dont skimp because 30s is too short or because you don’t know how to fill 20min10x30s5x2min4x5min2x10min1x20minI have always heard that the first 30s should be the same for every figure, and likewise the first 2 min, the first 5 min, and the first 10min etc. It’s like you always start a figure like you are going for the full 20 or longer, but then once the timer expires you just stop and move on.>>7728991The ankle cut always gets me everytime. Or lopping off the top of the head from bad planning. You cant just expand the canvas or nudge the drawing down half an inch
>>7729275Sure, I can post a figure drawing. I'm mostly active on /beg/ and /int/ threads, but here's my last drawing of a real human subject. I fucked up the feet, and I'm working on improving that.
>>7729280Forgot the image.
i think it will take a while to reach hundreds with my 30ish minute approach. i dont want to just do simple gestures, these slightly detailed ones feel like they help me a lot. the foosball ones felt really good when drawing mostly.>>7729280i think feet are easier than hands, at least for me. but i did draw them more for a while, because i had feet fever for like a week and copped some porno imagery and only drew the feetas. i can see why people are attracted to them now, despite only appreciating their beauty in an aesthetic sense now. cute feet are cute. you should draw some several feet from a buncha picutres/models, it'll be easier after that.
>>7729275I really enjoy your sketches. You have inspired me fren.>>7729282feet are a weird shape to get wrap your head around. Like a duckbill with a ball at the back. What helped me I agree with the another anon though, they are much easier than hands. I would recommend going to the lineofaction website in the OP and doing a bunch of time sketches of feet, that definitely helped me.these are a few I did from imagination, which is my ultimate goal. I think I need to work on proportions and shoulder/upper body anatomy.
>>7729701>>7729946This is great advice, anons! I'll make sure to take your suggestions to heart, don't doubt it. I'm already reading a couple of books on the structure of the foot and copying Hampton's work, and so far you are right. I just haven't practiced them much, I think. I'm going to do that when I get home from work.
Do yall think those speed anatomy YouTube videos will help be better at anatomy and form or will they just make me be able to copy the reference faster?I’m trying to be able to do these forms in my head and apply it to my work, so would this be a good way to help or is this the wrong approach to take?
>>7725416>>7725877thank you, glad you like them
that quick zappa came out really good. i do have a talent for portaits, but i like doing em as well. thats all talent is, eh? the stuff that drives you? .... what is it called again? f... fun? that one leg came out a bit too long, but i was wavering in concentration a little, so i didnt check proper. i do like that muscly tigh though, the referenced lady was really strong in general but its interesting to see how many muscles bulges and strings there can be on a pimped out body
>>7731878/pro/ I kneel
figging this out. >>7731878very inspirational. those hands are really nice
>>772927540/100 forgot to post for a few days, im barely hanging in here. >>7729946Glad to hear it. It’s always good to see more figgies.>>7729282You did good anon, we are all here to see the figure drawings so keep turning the crank>>7731878Jesus fucking Christ>>7732269Nice hatching, i love that dark shit
>>7732708for me, its pink heels lady
I suck at time management. 21 minute video meant I still had 39 minutes for 9 figures for the hour, but I had to rush the last 5 in like 14 minutes, including 4 minutes of overtime. Gotta be stricter
>>7732970i think time restrictions are stupid. take however long you need to get it right, especially in the beginning. speed comes with experience.
>>7732995>speed comes with experience.I'd say speed comes with confidence, and confidence comes with experience. But drawing with a time limit can also help with learning confidence. You can't fuss over every detail when you're running out of time, so you need to trust yourself and just go with the flow sometimes.Also it's just fun to challenge yourself in different ways.Doesn't mean you can't take it slow as well, they're not mutually exclusive, but I think there's a reason timed gestures/figures are one of the most common things you find recommended.
>>7732995while you're right that speed increases with experience, thats not all that timed sketches are about. Doing timed sketches forces you to only focus on the most defining aspects of an image and to draw gesturally, along with increasing speed. You do have to give yourself a reasonable amount of time however, depending on your skill level.
some mediocre ones due to shitty sleep cycle this weekend>>7733054>>7733019fair enough, i guess its more for getting the figures right rather than study the body as a whole. i'll try it out one of these days next week, i feel it could help me with judging the sizes of the limbs and shapes
>>7733298some more to amend the mediocre ones. i guess i just needed a good warm up. i need to cap some screens from jackie movies, because the online ones are very limited
There was someone one here a month or two ago posting pictures of hands that look like Tarzan. Does anyone have those pictures, or know the name of the method he was talking about?
>>7730449moresketching>>7734929cute faces, i love the knees>>7733298love the detail on the clothing
some 1min thumbnail poses
>>7735130i feel like i should use elipses for the ribcage and pelvis instead of a deadass circle
>>7735232good job, where did you spend most of your time on? the face?
>>7735237yeah the face took about 30-40 mins
>>773270862/100 i cant count like a fucking retard. I was taken on a journey drawing more diverse figgies. I didnt like it, but when i came back i felt like i had gained clairvoyance.>>7732785Heels are so impractical. I love that women are forced to wear them by society
>>7731878That bottom hand is fucking inspired. Love how you shaded the knuckles.
>>7737056what is your endgame junkbutt
i've been lazy but thats okay, sometimes we need to relax a little. figgies coming up later, figgots.
>>7736945These are really nice anon
>>7736945Really nice looking figures, how much time do you usually spend on one of those ?
drawing juiced guys feels like drawing silicone females, not the best body study material i think. but what do i know? it was fun either way and the day of rest helped counteracting creeping feelings of burnout. >>7737056>>7736945very inspiring as usual. i shall be working ahead on my spooktober pieces (i'll try a cancer man portrait), but i will still do some more figgies later after seeing your splendid study works.
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>>7737325You’re drawing the limbs well but try working on value transition. Try to practice gradually shading darks to lights >>7736945Wonderful work per usual. Love the way you drew the black women’s hair >>7737056Very nice work, those clothing folds are strong>>7734929Nice work, very harmonious and intentional lines>>7735006Love your stuff, your style is very appealing>>7735130I think some of the torsos here are inconsistent. Try to get a general understanding of how the ribcage moves in relativity to the pelvis. Make sure to study skeletons alongside doing this because that helps you simplify the shapes more
>>773694566/100 all the figgies lined up today, you can draw in the dancer girls penis>>7737227Maybe like 15-30 min each? Some are kind of fast and loose, you can kind of tell if i my heart was in it or not>>7737325I always liked the idea of drawing because you know there is some anon in a basket weaving thread that is drawing because you are drawing. Positive feedback loop of drawing>>7737332It’s kind of racist, but drawing black people is a waste of lead. I nuked like 2 leads on those refs
>>7737881what did she mean by this?
>>7737881Lmfao not racist at all. I literally have run through pens just trying to get through peoples hair . I still have drawings with white hair
>>7738406its a banana silly. she was hungry!
OK you have inspired me to fig. Turns out I really suck at figging but I had fun anyway so I will probably do more.I really struggled with 1 and 3 in particular
>>7738718the more you do the easier it'll get
>>7738718keep it coming homie, just takes practice. You did really good on #2 imo
>>7738718more>>7738761Thanks for the encouragement anon>>7738976Thanks, I will keep practicing.I like your line work. It is very clean
>>773788169/100 i hate drawing fat figgies. I took things into my own hands. I forgot that this is drawing and you can do whatever the fuck you want.>>7738406It was a popsicle, but i had her grab the pop instead of the stick>>7738418Honestly not worth it to color them>>7738976Nice legs>>7737333Damn you drew these in pen. I gotta step it up>>7737325Nice poses>>7735232I’m always pissed when i sink like 40 minutes into a face and it’s just like 6 lines that i couldnt place right. If i was better i could drop 6 lines in less than 10 seconds
1 min gestures
>>7739905I just love the way you draw legs. It’s so expressive while still maintaining anatomical accuracy >I gotta step it upI’d love to see what you bust out in pen
>>7739905>>Nice legsthanks, knees always throw me for a loop thoughtrying to incorporate rhythms into my sketching
ugh.... women discuss me!
Still experimenting and trying to find what works for me.Number 9's face was throwing the whole thing off so now she has no face.
>>773990571/100 biker girls now. I spent like 80% of the time on the bikes. Pretty hard.>>7740189Inktober is in a couple days. Maybe i will switch to pen>>7740536Open for discussion>>7740839Dont give up on the faces. I skipped faces for like 9 years. Now i pay the price.
>>7741037to be fair, the bikes do look really cool though
>>7739905>>7741037i used to give you shit for having technical skill and no appeal but you've improved a ton after grinding these figures for so long
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>>7725955>>7732970
>>7741268Woah mama
>>7735006>>7737332>cute faces, i love the knees>Nice work, very harmonious and intentional lineshugbox general
>>7742361>hugbox generalpositive encouragement is not a bad thing sometimes. there has to be a balance though. fucking faggot. now order is restored ~ it seems youre getting more confident with your figures? i know you had some issues when referencing before, but these look alright logically/anatomically.
More experimenting with different methods. I like how construction forces me to slow down and actually understand the forms. However it took me so long. I guess it will get faster as I practice. >>7741037>Dont give up on the faces. I skipped faces for like 9 years. Now i pay the price.Then I will continue drawing faces.
>>7743140aaand some adjustments to the proportions.. Not sure if I made it better or worse
>>7743240oh the arm. i think the one before worked better for the perspective, but i see you wanted to make it closer to her left arm i think? sometimes you just have to trial and error it till it looks right. not sure if you took this one as reference? if yes, just compare
>>7743272maybe now?I don't know if I can fix it without redrawing the arms completely. also I fixed the face maybe? or made it worse?I think I am just going to stop looking at it before I go completely insane.
>>7743284redrawing isnt a bad thing, you should commit to it if you feel it can help. you should take small breaks inbetween struggles though and come back fresh with new eyes and it'll be easier to figure out what works
>>7726354Make a damn blog already>>7726871You too plz, I like your studies, good range/variety if you drew the animu on the bottom too.
over 1 hour for only 3 figures, I’m too slow..
getting back into trying figure drawing again, actually getting the correct proportions and sizes from reference is way harder than I remembered damn, so much comfier just constructing your own from scratchalso keep estimating the space poorly so extremities drop off the page lol
>>7743701Speed comes naturally as you draw, just don't rush
>>774103775/100 inktober might kill me if i keep drawing figgies>>7741197I appreciate the shit flinging, that is what ic is meant for>>7742361> hugbox generalIt pains me to say this to your face, but these are nice>>7743701Do the timed drawing thing, quantity over quality>>7743766I over shot the page too, i had to improvise and then the non referenced parts look all chicken scratchy. Thats the price you pay for not planning anything
i've been trying to study hampton gesture lately but i'm still struggling sometimes with figuring how to start and where from. one page he suggests after the head to first find the axis of the rib-cage and pelvis then denote said axis and place the simple shapes down. but i feel like this makes it harder to place the gesture down afterwards. i saw him in a video he tries to place down about 4 lines for the spine but unless it's a pose from the back i find it hard to figure out each part of said spine
I lost count of how many times I redrew this.>>7744820spoopy
i feel bad for not drawing much within the past year.. hopefully will change that for the end of this year and into the next. good to see yall are still here :) everyone that was here this time last year has very much so gotten WAY better! gonna hopefully get into a better routine of this.. life’s been kinda ass cheeks for me lately
I have been improving slowly but I feel like I am missing something crucial. My best guess is that I'm just aping what I'm looking at without understanding how the human body connects together. Or I just haven't aped enough and the understanding will come eventually.
>>7747306I can see it getting there, just need to work on proportion. Also a little trick that I do redline my own drawing, it helps with seeing if I understand what i'm doing and also help with moving on to the next drawing without dwelling on it too much.
>>7747155hello fellow trad chad, have you tried drawing with 2mm lead or even with a different hardness lead? I find that it helps with quicker drawings and also changing it up a little makes me want to draw more
>>7746432gestures like that don't really have a fixed formula, the gesture for a backview will not be the same as for the front view. You really don't need to worry about exact placement/count of lines, do whatever feels best for you (my "gesture" is literally just a single line per body part, that actually feels best for me), as long as it captures the pose, and more or less is proportional (but even the proportional part doesn't need to be so, that's just how I do it).
>>7747321yea i remember that's something he mentioned in a video is that gesture is just for "you" and everyone's way of laying it down is unique. i guess i still feel i might be doing it wrong and trying to limit yourself to less lines i feel could help to make my marks sooner and cleaner, especially if i try to do timed gestures>my "gesture" is literally just a single line per body part,do you have any examples?
>>7747314friend gave me a carpenters pencil forever ago, no idea of the hardness, but i assume it’s just HB, and then i also use a 2H mechanical pencil. I mostly practice digital, and then use the sketchbook like a journal ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ >>7744820these are all so dope,, i love the aesthetic :’)>>774032210/10
>>7747306Study the skeleton
>>7747619just started really getting into tablet drawing, and it’s insane how much easier this feels
>>7747312I used to redline my own stuff [pic related[ 90 second gesture]] but it felt kinda silly. Maybe I should keep doin it. Would be good to take note of things that come up a lot.>>7747736Yeah this is probably my best next step. Will do O7.>>7740107These rule.
>>7725122Hey, so question about gesture.One of my preferred exercises to do is 2 minute figure drawings, and those rely pretty heavily on gesture. But I have a problem, which is every now and again, I'll run into a pose that just has like, very little to no gesture. Or the gesture is very, *very* subtle.It makes finding action lines very difficult or flat out impossible sometimes. It's fucked up because I love doing the crazy, whacky poses with lots of crazy gesture or perspective, but more neutral poses I completely flub up.Is there any way to easily grab the action lines for subtle poses? Or am I just approaching this completely the wrong way?
>>774482078/100 i cant count
>>774814783/100 i wasted too much time CLOWNing around with these. I gotta do inktober>>7747736I love these>>7747155I was dead for like a year, i miss some of the old anons like that colored pencil guy that drew lots of asuka, but you guys are alright too. I wont complain.>>7748012Feel the form, draw it fast. For me I spend the longest amount of time in a gesture looking for the shapes to throw down. The actual lines drawn are very fast. This is a good pose. Her feet are in tension. Her legs are long, You can push her into the ground. Maybe think of it like where its heavy go hard on the lines, where she is relaxed go easy on it.
>>7748152where do you get your references from? these all look sick! also glad to see you back then B) im sure more familiar faces will be in and out, usually how it works it seemsi was feeling confident, so i did a little refining to the figure i drew earlier and put her in a perspective grid,,
>>7748152Tableguy saying he loves my work? My day has been made Lovely work from you as well, I’m a big fan of these Horror-esque girls you’ve been drawing. I’m pretty impressed that you’ve managed to post in fig and inktober
First ten took a little over one hour, while the last two almost took an hour each, a large part of it being the faces. Kinda feels bad taking so long because of it, but I also know I won't get better if I don't do them and put some time into them.>>7748012I also think these neutral frontal poses are really hard. I'm still figuring it out myself, but what helped me is to remember that figures and especially gestures can be exaggerated to get stuff across. TG already touched on it, but her feet are stretched and tense, so really emphasize that. It also looks like her right(out left) shoulder is pulled back a bit, so I exaggerated that as well.
>>7747564With the line of the torso I try to match the spine, and that's about it in terms of anatomy, the other lines are just indicative of the placement, nothing more. I also included a second step, since you could still consider that the gesture part, where I try to make the perspective more clear based on landmarks of the torso/basic shapes, and also the center line of the torso. All of this isn't super exact, and it isn't supposed to be, I'm not super committed to the placement, I can always correct it later, but with this the overall pose, the placement of the parts, and the basic perspective is made clear (to me).
>>7748612(also note that I fucked up the placement, the hand holding the revolver is cut off, normally I would restart or measure properly before starting)
>>7748012I think for more subtle poses you can find gesture in the individual shapes rather than the whole figure. If you watch western comic artists draw, they tend to construct figures with "gestural shapes" so even static poses can have a lot of movement to them.
>>7748152you should do a vampira like pose. 'tis the season after all. i'm doing a vampira drawing sometime this month, i might just post it here when its ready
>>7748627These are incredibly pleasing to look at, so I must ask, what's your process/any courses or books you recommend?(pic related is a 15 minute pose, just so you know I'm not a nodraw endlessly asking this question to everyone; Currently working on learning anatomy still using the Vilppu videos + anatomy for sculptors book, and just practicing in general/refining my process.).
>>7748838Thanks friend. Im not the most most well read person, so I can't recommend any books. 90% of my knowledge comes from David Finch's youtube channel. Im not particularly into comics, but his videos are a deep well of knowledge of drawing fundamentals and practical advice. I've also learned a lot from his streams from him answering random questions. The other 10% is random youtube videos about drawing fundamentals and word of mouth from the interwebs. Embracing the grind and drawing the boring stuff for the sake of learning is massively important.One specific thing that I don't see recommended enough is practicing shape manipulation. It really helps with weird poses and foreshortening, and forces you to think in 3d.As far as my process, I usually start with drawing the torso-bean, then break it down into the ribcage + hips. Ill then draw a center line to help identify what the torso is doing. Then I draw the limbs with some gestural shapes, keeping muscular anatomy in mind. Everything else is just filling it in with simplified shapes that I observe in the reference, or just winging it.
I wanna say this took me around 30 minutes? I've been trying to learn how to draw bodies. This is my 3rd sketch so, I'm still new. Is the head too big?
>>7748610>Frontal poseMan, you did that beautifully... Reminds me I still have a long way to go lol
>>7749265very interesting, thanks. Using the beanbag makes a lot of sense actually, I think I'll try using that; now I use completely separated constructions for the ribcage and pelvis, which often makes it hard to place them correctly with regards to each other, often being ending up with a stretched out torso. But using a bean bag first (and practicing with it so I understand it of course) will probably help fix this.The shape manipulation tip is also very useful, I've been thinking about learning just simplified forms of the body and just manipulating them, anatomy helps you understand why certain shapes are there and see them properly but not much more than that.Funny how everyone seems to have a different process.
>>7749268open up photoshop (or gimp or whatever), take the original reference and your drawing, overlay them and adjust the opacity, and you will see all the mistakes you made clearly
>>7749547good suggestion
