Pose Maniacs: Me drawing a lot of poses

[dakotasapphire]

So even though I'm lacking at drawing (I need a lot more practice? but i'm better than a teacher drawing a stick man on the white board) I'm practicing poses now. The only reason I started was due to finding a really neat website, http://www.posemaniacs.com/. Anyways they have a 30 second drawing category, where it times it (You can make it up to 90 seconds). The whole purpose of the thing is to get people to draw better and understand posing and how human anatomy can be placed. Anyways, I just drew 53 poses that look kind of weird, but I figure i'll improve. What do you think? Will you try it?

[Jelw]

I'm a big fan of that website. Last year when my art resolution was so get a lot better at anatomy I used it a tooonnn and it helped a lot. Keep up with it- you'll see results!

[heterodont]

Posemaniacs is a p good site for learning poses and studying muscles but I always found the poses themselves to be really 'stiff' looking. It's good to use in conjunction with gesture drawing, drawing from life, and what not - but on its own I can't really recommend it unless you want your drawings to look stiff.

Theres are other websites that have the 30 second gesture study too! off the top of my head, theres http://artists.pixelovely.com/ which has the choice of hands/feet, models, animals, and faces. it uses photos of real people too so there isn't an issue of the pose looking stiff and lifeless. it also has the option of giving you like 10 second pictures to 'warm up' and gradually lengthen the time, as if you were in a classroom.

[dakotasapphire]

Thanks that's really helpful. ^^ I do need to learn more hands/feet and animals would be good to draw too ^^

[dakotasapphire]

Thanks i'm glad it helped you