arwing wrote:
wolf346 wrote:
Yeah, I know. Everything I seem to draw turns out soulless like a puppet. And just as rigid.
If you're serious about trying to draw you should do some gesture drawings. Like Impy said, draw real people in somewhat stick figure form so you get a sense of what people actually look like and how they fit together.
I took 3 years of figure drawing classes, and that's the best way to start. Make an oval with a cross to represent the face, an oval with an inverted "U" on the front to represent the chest, and twosmall ovals locked together at the bottom to represent the pelvis. Hands are triangles, and feet are rectangles. Get out of your chair and move around... think how your body moves in three dimensions and think how that would look as a "stick" figure. Spend a lot of time in front of a large mirror to see how the muscles and bones interact when you move. After awhile, you'll start to get the feel of how your musculature works and begin drawing it in more detail on your "stick" figures. Once you get comfortable with that, then you start studying the musculature of the neck and face.
Just remember, you can't move just one muscle. If you lift your arm, you also move muscles in your lower back.