I can't do it. Every pose I draw looks nothing like the reference. I always change the angle or something else about it without realizing it until after. Is this supposed to be an impossible pose or what. How do you get better at following your refs?
Slow down. You're moving too fast. Check and double-check your work.
>>8021570zoom out more often, get messier
I wouldn't say this looks nothing like the reference, the main thing is the viewer is too low and more eye-level with the subject in your drawing. If you mean you actually want a more exact translation then work on your measuring, copy silhouettes and negative space, and check your results for length and angle immediately after committing to a line or shape.
>>8021570Draw over the reference (not necessarily tracing) first to get a sense of what it should look like.
>>8021570Do this (Dorian Iten's free accuracy handbook) and 1 hour of block-ins a day and you will never worry about accuracy ever again
git gud
>>8021617On top of this, you're also gonna want to do gesture studies and active recall/memory drawings of your reference.
>>8021570Drawing the same pose, and not just copying the reference, with different body types, is actually very difficult.Think people that need to animate multiple characters dancing together. Same choreography. Same poses.But there are small characters, tall characters, fat characters, female, male, children, etc.It’s just not about having the same angles at the joints.Think about it.
>>8021570Honestly that’s not even that bad. You didn’t push the angles as far as the reference, so if you wanted to say that you fell short because of that then ok, but your drawing isn’t bad and I might even like it better than if you had just traced it with perfect accuracy. Watch any pro do a study and they’ll never copy the reference 100% accurate. You’re going to have little inaccuracies and alterations, what makes the pros good is they’re able to turn these alterations into a final drawing that still looks good, instead of crumbling as soon as they stray from the reference.Anyway if you want to be more accurate then just tryhard and draw slower and more carefully, also overlay your drawing onto the reference to see where it’s different.
>>8021570It's fine though. It only deviates down at the waist and hips. Get a reference that isn't black on black and you have to squint to see her body.If you want closer to 1:1 accuracy then you'll have to get autistic with more rigorous methods.
>>8021893It is a shit ref but the arms are also completely off and the pose itself is very different.
>>8021570Try different approaches? I will go only by the picture you provided, but you should try some basic construction first. Maybe a few cubes and gesture lines that easier to redo.
>>8021570move your eyes back and forth from one image to the other, focus on small stuff, see the arm that's holding the sword, look back and forth, correct the size by drawing on top of it, like adding layers, until it looks right on comparison, it doesn't matter if it's messyand i don't know why you're using those thin clean lines but i feel they're keeping you from making fixes, it's a sketch, it can be messy, it should be messy
>>8021971also measure your proportions,check the negative space too
>>8021570Just imagine vertical and horizontal plumb lines. Use construction and rough out the figure first. That's all there is to it.
>>8022015>"git gud scrub"
you need to compare every angle, size and placement. like the elbow and head for example. you missed the mark by like half a head. it should be above the bobcutline. focus on observing the picture first, these things take time, dont rush it. try again when you have an hour or two. especially at your early drawing career you need to input more time and even suffer through failure (like now) but make sure to try again and again, even the same poses
