#and I've been drawing since 2016 lmaoo :3

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too shy to do this off anon but how do you come up with your poses and anatomy?

I gotta admit I think posing, especially from imagination, is one of my weaker if not weakest areas. I struggle with it a lot. Personally, I have near complete aphantasia so that may be a part of it. I draw through feelings and rhythm and my sense of weight/mechanics only. I feel like I map my figures out in slightly different ways every time. It's often spine first, but the rest can be boxes, just lines or mostly circular masses lol. Ngl it's basically just trial and error drawing simple mannequins/thumbnails until I get one I like, then I'll sketch a more final version. 😅 Ref is my best friend when coming up with or checking my poses. And hiding half of the figures (vertically or horizontally) and then making the hidden part up, or trying to draw my ref, but from another angle is how I practice.

For anatomy, it's mostly using reference again! I wing it until it looks off, then will search up something like "sitting cross legged" to see where I went wrong with my pose/anatomy. Another really helpful thing for me was knowing where major muscle masses, insertion points and body landmarks are. All of those helped the names and functions of muscles sink in more than trying to sit and memorize them individually or before I knew their general areas and shapes.

Lastly these two books are the ones I learned the most from when it comes to organic drawing. The method the author uses really clicked with how I "feel" through my figures but ymmv!