#fun way to practice poses

[abbeyofcyn]

[kotilae]

aaand the finished thing :D

it was fun doing a full drawing with just the lasso & shape tools! might make a series of hsr pieces like this. I have other work to catch up on soon but I might try to do it in my free time..... we'll see how much steam I have for it :0c

(poses were referenced from @adorkastock ! great stuff over there!)

[dxoxlinq]

ends off 2023 drawings w/ strawberry and her bestie who is (used to be) a war criminal ^_^

(close ups !!!!!!!!!)

[sysig]

Caughtcha, gotcha, not letting go ♥ (Patreon)

[stormbreaker-290]

@bumble-the-sun-bee y oull never guess who :3

(close up under the cut <3)

[pineappleisland]

Have been obsessing over enki

Again

[secondstar-acorn]

they’re talking shit

[bacchuschucklefuck]

as an artist who just wants to get to drawing the pretty clothes and is terrible at posing i am forever enamoured by your poses..... they have so much energy and movement!!!

was this via art study, a general knack for anatomy or do you just enjoy posing specifically? and do you have any tips?

(i was just wondering bc your pose work is always so dynamic :D (your lighting also slaps /pos))

this is one case where it's a secret fourth thing lol. I have never successfully studied a single thing in my life, I am not at all a naturally "gifted" artist (and as well I reject the idea altogether), and posing has never jumped out to me as its own task in drawing at all! the way I do anything art-related, and posing specifically, is a lot more mechanistic than how it's perceived I think; I've just assumed this came as a function of how narrative-forward I see art, and how much I focus on comic work.

what folks talk about as "posing" I usually think of in two terms: composition and character acting. composition is how the figures fit into the intended frame, and character acting is the actual motion that'll be portrayed. you can see how that logically works itself out! there are more words than stars in the sky written about composition already, I honestly don't think there's anything I can say that'd be more useful than words from artists like thomas romain. character acting is itself more a matter of writing than visual art to me; you've got a guy and they probably do things, you draw them do those things, that's really it. the rest of it is just, figuring out weights and accenting in a scene, shape language, line flow, discipline-specific stuff like that; since no matter what I'm drawing I always mentally think of it as a comic thing, I usually try to insist on the strong points of that medium, one of which is colloquializing shapes to imply the entirety of a movement through a single panel. I don't always succeed at this! I hope to do better in the future. but it's how I approach this matter.

I think sitting down with your art to think about like, how you're approaching it and what you're in it for would help with troubleshooting a lot of the times. it's helped me before! I'm a completely hedonistic artist, I don't draw what I don't want to draw. what is it exactly about posing that's giving you a hard time? is it something you can do without? usually it is. if it's the thinking up a pose part, you can copy poses from high fashion magazines and sewing pattern models and just photos you find. if it's the fitting a pose into a nice looking complete picture part, don't make it a nice looking complete picture, do it sketchbook style, collage a buncha stuff together. if you never want to think about posing ever again, that's what stock bases are for! make urself some or get some from an artist and just draw the nice clothes.

if ur committed to figuring out posing and wanna ease urself into it, I find prompt lists are pretty good for giving ur brain a ground to build on top of and start asking questions. it's also a good exercise to sit down before drawing a thing to ask urself what u want it to be like, genre-wise: is it gonna be a comic cover, or a family photo, or a professional photoshoot, etc. these things have their own visual languages, and keeping that in mind will direct u on how to frame and choose the movements for ur piece. or, if that's overwhelming, drawing characters running is always good! there's plenty of character acting involved in there, it shows off the physicality of the clothes nicely, and it's decently easy to frame.

(I am similarly mechanistic about pretty much every other aspect of drawing lol, lighting/shading included. fully a case of "if it looks alright I put it in, if it doesn't I don't do it". I still struggle with it every time I do colors, but what can ya do. if the piece asks for it that's what it'll get. thank you very much for the nice ask!)

[aurumdoesthings]

first of a batch of sketches based on crystaahhl's dancing in cosplay videos (haru/the ballerina, yukari)! her haru cosplay especially is soooo pretty and her dancing is beautiful, she clearly has so much fun with it :)

[malbenita]

The Kick It Anya and guys being grumpy, as a practice

[jessamine-rose]

*squeezes aine this time*

Read my Yandere! Dottore fics first (⁎⁍̴̆Ɛ⁍̴̆⁎)

Chemistry ๑ Magnum Opus

So @ainescribe decided to surprise me with more Darling fan art, this time of Dottore’s Assistant!! *sobs* I love it so much ｡ﾟ(ﾟ´ω`ﾟ)ﾟ｡

Once again, feedback will be in the tags. Thank you so much for enjoying my writing, Aine <3

[storfulsten]

You know what would be good? A SpongeBob SquarePants movie reference with Patrick in heels and small SpongeBob but instead it’s Whitty as Patrick and BF as SpongeBob!

Good idea right? 😉

hmmm yeah sure

they r goofy goobers yea

[feeling--pink]

Crayon Tails from reference :)

[sysig]

Family ♥ (Patreon)

[rottencoreflesh101]

Sketches I did of my ocs and my close friend’s durinh the process of getting all my comm info together to update trello! Which soon I’ll upload here!

[msenglishgent]

Did one of those Twitter outfit memes