/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

To any one who feels like they're not understanding what people mean by feeling "flow" (because admittedly it does sound esoteric), try to just spend 30 min doing 1 minute gesture drawings on as many sheets as you need. You don't have to make them detailed. What you should focus on is just the line of action. You can sometimes think of this as the spine, but this isn't always the case. You might've heard this before, but this is extremely important to help your drawings feel less stiff. During the gesture stage you don't have to really make the anatomy accurate, just make sure the proportions feel right. You could do this as a warm up. This isn't the only way to practice, but it can help you figure out what kinds of poses you have trouble with and why. Learning the anatomy goes hand in hand with this too, but this is a good place to start if you have no idea how to do anatomy.