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I think you've hinted at it, but years ago I was interested in learning how to draw and was given the advice of drawing poses on a timer (I think it was 120s bu
by 22c 2y ago
I think you've hinted at it, but years ago I was interested in learning how to draw and was given the advice of drawing poses on a timer (I think it was 120s but the goal is to eventually get it down to 30s or less).
There were websites back then which would automatically flip to the next pose once the timer ran out, you'd have to start a new page and sketch it out again.
If you do this for even 10-15 minutes a day every day, you eventually start to see an improvement on your ability to draw poses (starting with picking up on which lines are the most important to convey a silhouette, eventually moving into things like muscles, bone structure, etc.). You can even refer back to your earlier drawings to see the progression.
I never got any good because I didn't stick with it, but I did get a lot better than how I was when I started.
- Pamar 2y agoThese sites still exist, this is how I started: https://line-of-action.com// https://line-of-action.com//
- egypturnash 2y agoYes, when I was taking life drawing classes in animation school, every class opened with about 15 minutes of 10-60sec poses, followed by some longer poses, as well as chunks of lecture from the teacher on how various body parts are put together and how to think about that on the page. Those short poses seemed impossible at first but very quickly became pretty good. Later on a regular exercise at one of the studios I worked at was "cartoon life drawing", we'd pause a video tape on a good frame from an old WB cartoon, and draw. There was a built-in timer since the VCR would only hold a single frame for so long before saying "okay we're playing again now".