life drawing techniques
I decided to also do some research into some life drawing techniques to hopefully help me improve. While doing some searching the main thing each article I was reading kept repeting was that the only way to really improve is through proactice. Which makes sense, as much as I don't like life drawing its something I despreatley need to improve in.
At the moment in class what I tend to do is just draw without realy thinking about it too much, but the technique of trying to make sure everything is proportionate by making the length of the body about 7 heads long and the shoulders around 3 heads wide is something I used to do before joining the actual life drawing classes, so I think I might start to try and incorporate that in my drawings again.
or because we don't always have allot of time on each pose I might just use that as a rough guide on where to put the shoulders and waist and feet for example rather than making sure everything looks ‘perfect’ so that when I draw it wont take too long for each pose and its still quite expressive.
Another method is the gesture drawing method which is something I sometimes do In my work without even realising it so that I can get the basic shape down.
This focuses more on the line of action rather than anything else, typically you have three circles for the head, torso and waist with the line of action going through them all. I quite like using this technique especially as it helps with animation by getting the line of action down right to mak interesting and dynamic poses.
https://paintingdemos.com/5-techniques-to-make-your-life-drawing-class-fun/
https://paintingdemos.com/life-drawing-techniques-and-methods/