I’m working on a post about drawing people from reference, and how I’ve been using this to help me:
Warm up for the day’s creative work
Get and stay in practice drawing people
Experimenting with stylizing features in different ways
Keep digging deeper into my “style”—the things I don’t do on purpose, that make my work unique (we all do this subconsciously in our work, and it’s worth trying to isolate, to figure out what our own unique ✨magic✨ is)
Do you have any questions, thoughts, fears about drawing people, or using reference? Anything you’d particularly like to explore?
(I posted this in Notes, too, just to see which works better for this kind of conversation! I’m still finding my way around here.)
Have you tried this same practice with full body poses? I am interested in the same process but for full bodies as well. I want to try this because I think when I draw from reference it seems to be much more realistic and harder for me to simplify and stylize but I like this idea of doing other iterations no longer looking at the reference, I see how your style comes through!
Yes! You can absolutely do it with full body poses. It's been a minute since I've specifically focused on full body poses with this exercise (I'll often just pick a reference photo that resonates with me somehow that day, and it's sometimes full body, sometimes not), but I'll do a few full body ones and take notes to see what comes up and share anything helpful! I think that actually could be a great way to give even more room for finding and honing "style"--the things you can't help but do--if you're creating more of a whole character and even scene from memory and forcing yourself to fill in the gaps. I'm excited to give that another go, thanks for suggesting it!!
Have you tried this same practice with full body poses? I am interested in the same process but for full bodies as well. I want to try this because I think when I draw from reference it seems to be much more realistic and harder for me to simplify and stylize but I like this idea of doing other iterations no longer looking at the reference, I see how your style comes through!
Yes! You can absolutely do it with full body poses. It's been a minute since I've specifically focused on full body poses with this exercise (I'll often just pick a reference photo that resonates with me somehow that day, and it's sometimes full body, sometimes not), but I'll do a few full body ones and take notes to see what comes up and share anything helpful! I think that actually could be a great way to give even more room for finding and honing "style"--the things you can't help but do--if you're creating more of a whole character and even scene from memory and forcing yourself to fill in the gaps. I'm excited to give that another go, thanks for suggesting it!!
My pleasure! Excited to see your results!