08-15-2013, 12:59 AM
My advice is don't even bother making your gesture drawings "accurate", try to analyze the forces that are making the pose look how it looks, what the pose is about. Then draw that as simply and clearly as possible, regardless of what the pose actually looks like. One great way I've heard this put is "draw verbs, not nouns".
You don't want to draw a hip in an accurately angled relationship to the rib cage, you want to draw the hip seductively thrusting outward and swaying upwards. Don't draw an arm and forearm with a grabby-looking hand, draw an arm stretching to its limit and straining to grab the most delicious donut in the universe!
IMO it's better to have an exaggerated pose which tells the story of the gesture than a drawing that's mostly true to the reference but doesn't clearly show what's happening in the pose.
You don't want to draw a hip in an accurately angled relationship to the rib cage, you want to draw the hip seductively thrusting outward and swaying upwards. Don't draw an arm and forearm with a grabby-looking hand, draw an arm stretching to its limit and straining to grab the most delicious donut in the universe!
IMO it's better to have an exaggerated pose which tells the story of the gesture than a drawing that's mostly true to the reference but doesn't clearly show what's happening in the pose.