Walent's sketchbook

[walent]

Question for you on inventing poses:  If you had your mind set on a pose but couldn't find a reference photo for that exact pose, how would you go about inventing that pose?

It happens quite often and one thing I do is constantly practice the poses I THINK I'LL USE at some point, not just random poses. Then I try various things like drawing the poses using basic figure drawing knowledge, meaning actually break it down to boxes and cylinders, using gesture, rhythms and shape arrangements (even going abstract), then add basic anatomy; if it really doesn't work I try to take that pose myself, see how it feels and find what's not working. I then imagine the camera angle and try to figure out which parts of the body are closer and which are further away. Adjust either the camera or the pose until it feels dynamic enough, I never want everything on the same depth level, because it creates stiff and flat poses.
Another thing would be to actually get someone to pose, but that's not always easy
I also constantly gather tons of refs and eventually combine them to get the pose I need.

Fuck didn't realise you started posting again. Awesome work as always :) Especially your figures, I always use them a reference for how I want my figure drawings to look.

Thanks, Peter!


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