blobbing
today i made my students learn how to blob their way to greatness (drawing animals), watched them improve before my very eyes. mission complete
blobbing is basically when you slap down little circles to show the gesture/line of action/pose of something before you go in and add detail
told my students to find the largest mass in an animal and draw that first instead of starting @ head and going one direction
most people start at the head. hell, they start at the eyes half the time too. but the head we go to instinctively to read expressions so it's a natural inclination
you can't do this in drawing or you end up with weird proportions a lot of the time, or run out of paper
instead, start with trunk/body + spine + hips, get the gesture, then add limbs. head should be last
if you use a line of action, that often follows the main mass/spine of vertebrates, limbs often are slightly unaligned
after that it's just a matter of learning EVERYTHING ELSE
