This post features a series of figure drawing studies, done either in Photoshop or traditionally.
The first image has a few 30 second poses referenced from real photos. It’s a nice warmup that forces me to focus on what is essential in a pose and where its lines of movement are “flowing” towards. The 30-second phases can also fit onto quick or longer study sessions.
I try to keep these warmups between 10-15 minutes, and sites like Line of Action offer custom setups for the amount of time and type of photo you’d like to reference during your practice.
I also love Force: Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators, by Mike Mattesi. It helps a lot in expressing movement through drawing (by using lines as guides that represent basic movement direction in a pose, as well as training the view to notice silhouettes and relationships between shapes). Glenn Vilppu has incredible material as well!
Finally, I’ve also written a blog post recommending James Gurney’s (a lighting and color theory master) works.
Keep studying!
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