Figure drawing is a fun and good way to get better at drawing humans.

Some free resources:

https://quickposes.com/en/gestures/timed
https://www.quickposes.com/en
http://reference.sketchdaily.net/en
https://quickposes.com/en/gestures/random
https://www.characterdesigns.com/non-nude-photo-index
https://www.lovelifedrawing.com/tutorials/
https://app.posemy.art/
https://line-of-action.com/practice-tools/hands-feet-practice
https://www.rkgk.org/

Might as well check the archives and active /ic/ threads for references:

https://warosu.org/ic/thread/7019067#p7019080
https://warosu.org/ic/thread/2015637
https://warosu.org/ic/thread/6864584
https://warosu.org/ic/thread/2023233
https://4chanarchives.com/board/ic/thread/2015637

Previous thread >>7550744

>>7592159 (OP)
how to achieve sex lines like yours?

>>7592159 (OP)
do you need /beg/vision to find this good?

Gonna post some daily stuff to kick this thread off.

What are some good brushes for figure drawing in krita?
I've been using the pencil 5 tilted, but everything else feels kinda like shit to use.

>>7592474
Make your own brush based on what feels good.

Just copy the Basic-3 brush and play with size curve, flow curve, opacity curve, and softness. You can make a brush for pretty much any non-painting purposes this way. Don't touch ratio, texture, shape and other stuff, it's unneeded.

>>7592159 (OP)
Totally killed my streak to take a 10 day vacation in Hawaii. I'm feeling *rusty*
I'll post more soon, I'm flying back tonight.

>>7592159 (OP)
Have not drawn much in the last two weeks, I feel so rusty.

>>7591598 (Cross-thread)

hard to say for sure with such an extreme pose but i thiiiink this is about right. the scapula pushing out the lat + the relaxed serratus + the stretching of the pec/delt is what is flattening out the arm pit i think.

>>7592839
Stunning work, lad.
But I feel like you didn't get the angle of the shoulder and back quite right, my personal theory is that the model is hyperflexible/hypermobile and that's why the pose looks so funky at certain points. The low quality of the image doesn't help either.

>>7592851
yeah, that wouldnt surprise me if i got stuff wrong here. lots of guesswork.

the struggle

>>7592883
looks good

>>7592474
these sketch brushes are quite nice. you might want to adjust the flow and pressure curve until it feels good to you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6_K_Fb-rYs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlDNC1P0We0

What a nightmare this session was. It’s been so long since I did 1min figures and what a set I chose for a comeback.

>>7592839
wonderful rendering, whats your technique?

str8 tweaking.

>>7592903
>whats your technique?
Flat brush, opacity tied to pressure. I use the broad side for shading and the narrow side for accents and lines

>>7592839
>>7592926
if you could give some tips for an intermediate artist who wanted to get to your advanced levels, what would you tell them? What practice was most helpful in your experience?

>>7592935
>>7592935
Studying from reference and then trying to do it from memory is probably the most helpful thing I've done. Understanding what I'm studying is another one -- just copying ref doesn't work so well because you're liable to misinterpret stuff. So really learning the structure of what you're studying is important, which is not to say you shouldn't simplify and break things down. It's one thing to understand the structure of, say, a skull. It's another to analyse the individual grooves and bumps that don't show on the surface of the face

>>7592949
thank you, anon, that makes a lot of sense to me

just out of curiosity, where you also the one who did the ecorche in the last thread? (>>7566604) it would be super cool if it was you

>>7592951
Yup, that one was mine too

>>7592952
awesome, thank you so much for your advice, i wish i could get your level of draftsmanship one day

line of action has been hitting hard recently. Has anyone got any tips to drawing hair that is kinda dark in the picture and not got a lot of detail?

>>7592964
meant to post it portrait woops im retarded

Practice from earlier today. It's been a while since I did anything other than 1 minute figures, I think I should do 7 or 10 minutes. Seems it'll give me enough time to try to finish a basic figure in 5ish minutes if I focus and take the rest to try to shape shadows/details. I think I'm going to take practice more seriously, I'll probably start doing a couple pages of Bridgeman everyday. I really want to get better I've been way too lazy for a while now gonna get out of my comfort zone.

>>7592429
I like how the meido came out.
>>7592883
I like it, pretty sure it's from the same reference pack I used today.
>>7592839
Super cool.
>>7592631
Good job. Quickposes? I think I recognize the bottom 5 minutes one.

Daily 1 min gestures

>>7593038
how do you do that and make it look so cool?

>>7593045
nta;
..maybe by wanting to draw cool?

>>7593045
Im not quite sure what you mean but maybe its the brush im using? Heres an example from imagination with another brush.
The shape language I use has just been created through practicing a bunch of timed gestures

>>7593065
sorry I realise now how stupid of a question that is,

I guess what I meant is how do you manage to draw a figure like that digitally (I presume it's digital) so quickly? I guess at the end of the day it's skill, pardon me though I'm still new to this thread as I'm more of a /p/ro guy and shocked at the speed some people can work at.

My gf uses a tablet to draw but drawing figurines like that at that speed on a tablet seems borderline impossible for a plebian like myself that only uses pencil and paper.

Also I guessed I was asking about how u structured all the figurines together in the aspect ratio as you did, looks v smooth and yummy

>>7593096
>how do you manage to draw a figure like that digitally (I presume it's digital) so quickly?
Practice, practice, practice. And yes its digital. Pic related is when I practiced traditionally two years ago, I've filled plenty of sketchbooks with just practicing drawing the body and breaking down the shapes. So now even if draw digitally or trad, I have the muscle memory. So it basically boils down to practice and keeping at it. Timed figure drawings should be stressful and mentally taxing, it forces your brain and hand to look for shortcuts and develop shapes that reads correctly (imo)

For the aspect I just use a 7000x3000 canvas and zoom to roughly 75% so I basically get 10 figures in before I need to scroll down the page to the "row". I dunno, thats just my way of doing it

>>7593131
looks great anon, ty for the inspo xoxo

Trying to get used to draw on my pentab...

some timed figure drawings, i'm rusty

>>7592981
Thanks! Yeah I think so. I kind of bounce around whatever free site I can get but I frequent that one the most.

>>7593038
>>7593131
these are incredible, but do you find short poses to be that beneficial, or is it just a warmup? Like, how does it compare to studies you spend 10-20 mins on?

>>7593387
Thanks
I mostly do 1 min gestures nowdays because I like trying to capture the form and flow, and quickly iterate through different poses. If I were to spend 10-20 minutes on a figure, it would serve as a rendering exercise where you're trying to define the forms through values and edges. I hardly do that anymore (would rather just do master studies of art I like)

tried to practice some fore-shortenin'

How shitty is this, is it possible to fix these shitty crappy figures, I hate them, no matter how hard I try, only this shit comes out, what to do...

>>7593723
you scribble in exactly hte same way the 4 months schizo did in 2021...

>>7593752
I'm not him, what should I do with these figures, are they fixable?

I tried to make a 30 second gesture like that anon, but I was very nervous during the process, since there was not enough time even to understand the perspective, sometimes I did not even have time... In the end, this is what came out

>>7593723
The phase your currently in is the frustraton-phase; i once was there when i began with gestures, it was painful.. the only solution to this is, to fight against it and watch videos and also imrpove your linework and ur understanding of form; you have to want it and believe in it to go trough that phase.
There's only two outcomes here, you gonna end drawing out of frustration or you gonna keep moving and susceed.

>>7593780
>>7593723
You realize gestures aren’t meant to be a full figure drawing right? Like, it literally doesn’t matter what you put down on the paper as long as it represents the figure/pose and you, the person who drew it, are able to read it.

All of you niggers need to read Nicolaides.

>>7593723
>>7593780

This is what I dub the "quick gesture trap." Basically, you hear the word "quick" and think that you have to do these fast drawings to get good at drawing bodies. WRONG!! You don't get good at drawjng bodies, you get good at making marks on the page. Slow down, learn to divide the body into simple shapes, 3 ovals for the head, torso and pelvis, 5 simple lines for the spine, upper and lower arms and upper and lower legs, 2 triangles for the feet and 2 boxes or 2 ovals for the hands.

Look up photo references and take your time studying the line of action, perspective of the body and what exactly is the pose suppose to be. Is the person in the photo running, boxing, pitching, swimming, bending, twisting, etc. Then go back and do timed gestures, 2-3 miss each pose, if you have to give yourself and extra 30-60 seconds, do it. Don't beat yourself up if you don't fully draw the whole figure in a short amount of time, you'll get faster eventually.

I just did these real quickly for an example. The top left is an example of what you should be doing and then I did some quick 30 second gestures. It's been a while, so I'm a little rusty but the top 2 on the right where my last figures and came out looking as my best ones.

>>7593936
your gestures are shit too though.

This shit is HARD, fuck. Tryina make line interactions that convey solidity, indicate but not iverdo accurate anatomy and hit proportions, all together. It feels like I'm gettin closer to being kinda gud, but i look at bridgeman or henry yan and their forms all just LOCK together so solid.

Like I gotta learn to ask before each mark, 'how will this lock-in?' But jugglin the other stuff makes it so challenging, but I know it can be done.

>>7593939

I said it's been a while and they're 30 second gestures. I don't do 30 second gestures anymore as I don't see the point on doing them. I prefer quality gesture studies over quantity. If you want to get better at drawing bodies, again, slow down and do longer sesh figure studies.

>>7593896
>literally doesn’t matter what you put down on the paper

Yeah if you're happy with drawings that look like shit, sure. But we're striving for greatness. Look at the main drawing in picrel, it's a two minute pose.

>>7593947
>Look at the main drawing in picrel, it's a two minute pose.
Compared to a 30 second gesture. It’s also charcoal and they’re drawing with mass. But I also don’t believe it’s a 2 minute drawing.

>>7593947
Also is this guy dead or something? Why has their website not been updated in over 10 years and the book is unavailable for less than $500 anywhere?

>>7593941
Looks quite nice though, especially her midsection

>>7593131
>Timed figure drawings should be stressful and mentally taxing,
I have such a hard time with them because of that. Can feel my body tensing up as I draw, and end up feeling drained after a relatively short session. After a few sessions like that I begin to dread the prospect of practicing

>>7594066
I've been doing it recently and I've never felt myself improve as much as I have in the last week out of years I've been drawing, I'd recommend doing a 5 minute timer instead, it really gives you time to properly draw something.

Also focus on one thing, hands, figure, face etc for a week as oppose to going back and fourth,

Had a bit of time before going to sleep so I did a lot of 30s figs. Daily 1 min practice, I also started Bridgman I'll stick for a couple pages a day and see where it takes me. Excited about it honestly.

I just have no clue how people even decide "Ok this is how long the neck is supposed to be, this is how wide the shoulders are supposed to be relative to the head"

It does not make any sense to me. Even drawing from reference

>>7593891
Proportion is so fucking impossible to me. I can't even do basic gesture because of it.

>>7593969
I think he just teaches in SF and quietly makes a living, then a workshop when he wants to travel. Born too early to GAF about insta.

>>7594028
Not to me. I mean, it looks okay and I've improved, but I know what gud is, I know what it would feel like, and I'm not there.

>>7594147
Draw a neck. Look at it, did you make it too long? Draw it again this time shorter. Rinse repeat forever

Some 3 mins. Think I prefer sticking to 5 or 8 minutes. Just make more interesting decisions when I do.

>>7593941
It helps to do a longer study of a subject then do it in increasingly diminishing time sets. So 1 hr, 30 min, 10, 5. I find it really helps you develop some short hand.

>>7593188
I like these

still struggling with gesture
2 min per and sometimes it takes me almost half of that just to understand the pose
i don't feel like i have a concrete way to putting down the lines

>>7594251
How long have you been drawing, how did you train?

daily 31 (lost a bit count towards the end) x 1 min figures
Had to pull out extra effort to do these as Im very tired from work
Wish I could just draw all day every day instead