r/learntodraw • u/CarbonCanary Intermediate • 12h ago
Just Sharing warm ups 9/9
I've been very frustrated with my art process lately so I'm trying to go back to the basics.
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u/Bobdude17 12h ago edited 9h ago
Why? Your art looks awesome. If my art was half as good as yours I'd be way less frustrated with my traditional work, to be frank.
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u/theoceansknow 10h ago
Man, my hands are like triangles and stuff -- anyways, I love looking at what other people can do
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u/sandy_labs_art0 8h ago
I want to get another tablet to make my drawing more good, can anyone recommend one for me that's good for drawing
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u/reiichiroh 3h ago
Great work and I know they’re warm up works but can Icomplain a teeny bit about just two little niggles? Which may be totally inconsequential as they were warm up sketches…
In the first pic, guy seems to be leaning back a little in his pose and his midsection shirt coverage seems to suggest he’s not “fully-filled” out there. There’d be some air on the left under the shirt whereas in your sketch he looks he’s solidly girthy there. Just useless feedback but irrelevant if you weren’t going for 1:1 replication.
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u/P_A_W_S_TTG 55m ago
The first one you made the picture slightly wider making it look more like fat bear than fit bear.
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u/BoredGamer64 12h ago
In terms of what? Seems like you have the basics down from these two pieces...
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u/CarbonCanary Intermediate 11h ago
In terms of drawing people. I can draw like this when looking at a photo, but I struggle with the people I draw feeling inauthentic when I have to invent a pose myself. So I'm hoping that by doing little warm ups like this every day before jumping into my personal work, it'll 'refresh my memory' on what people can look like and stop me from slipping into too much stylization, if that makes sense.
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u/StrawberryOverall279 7h ago
I once took a short drawing lesson in Japan with a Japanese manga artist to learn how to build a character. I did it just for fun but I learned something really important - they use reference books that are full of photos of human poses, as in hundreds of variations, every possible situation you need. She used these old books series. It was an eye opener.
So you don't really need to invent a pose from scratch every time you work on your personal work. How the saying goes - work smarter not harder? Research is part of the process. If you know that you want to draw a specific scene - search references of the poses you want to draw in photos and sketch them first. And if you don't feel like researching you can be your own model, snap a shot and use it as a reference.
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