/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4169353
you could start by studying the pose you got there.

>>4169360
where do you learn about those lines that connect the edge the character?

>>4169360
where do I learn about those lines that connect the edge the character?

>>4169353
>30 second figures
You fell for the crab advice. This is dumb and doesn't help you learn anything. Isn't it a little too good to be true that you could improve at drawing by mindlessly shitting out a bunch of rapid-fire drawings without actually putting effort into them or analyzing your mistakes?
>What the hell should I be studying?
Have you tried just fucking drawing the poses you want?
You have arms and hands and legs, take pictures of them and use them as references. It's easy to approximate the parts of the body with cylinders and boxes, just arrange the boxes in the right way. You don't need any knowledge beyond the absolute basics you probably know anyway, just start drawing and experiment.

>>4169375
i think its just similar to what kim jung gi would do, fitting a pose into a shape. take your ref superheroes, look for the shape. look at the negative shapes too, curve on the right and straight on the left of spidey for example.
foreshortening and perspective as well.

>>4169353
"Dynamic foreshortened pose" on Bing images (Google images is ass). First of all, understand why it even looks that way: Spiderman is basically about to slap you in the face, he's very close to the viewer. So his left arm looks elongated relative to his body. On most of those timed pose-drawing websites, you don't get super dynamic, foreshortened poses like that. You might get dynamic but not extremely foreshortened. Poses like this are harder to find in general because most people want a selfie or group photo, they don't want their hand all up in the camera.

So you have to learn how to find images like this. DeviantArt is saturated with years of stock images, many of them intentionally dynamic to meet artist demand. Also search engines as mentioned. Shutterstock and other stock image sites have lots of goofy distorted photos (key words "fisheye" or "foreshortened." Other key words: dynamic, fisheye, distorted, coming toward/pointed at camera. Also check out Hyper Angle.

And take the time to break down and understand a difficult or new pose. 30 seconds is "feel it out" territory and is not enough to make careful observations. Art growth is all about observation and memorization. So try doing it from imagination afterward.

A warning though, these are some of the toughest poses to do convincingly. It's going to be frustrating without a solid base of anatomy and perspective knowledge. Go ahead and try a tough pose, but don't forget about the simpler fundamental stuff too.