Lyraina's sketchbook

[Samszym]

Cool stuff! How are you starting on those exaggerated photo-ref drawings? I think it'd be easier to figure out what direction you want to go with the pose if you start out with some smaller thumbnails like your 60 second sketches, and then do a more finished drawing after you've made your decisions. Since you were disappointment in how the female figures are all sexed up, maybe try and draw some female poses that are more threatening, or exhausted, or laughing. Try and make a whole bunch of different moods out of the same pose by varying the body language and what the limbs are doing!
Maybe do some studies of the clavicle+shoulder blade system, shoulders have a huge range of independent motion and the more aware of it you are the more expressive your drawings can be.

color stuff's looking really cool, you're definitely working super hard! Keep it up :D