trying to remember how to draw // remembering I never figured out how to draw people
I'm afraid AI has surpassed me, as I still can't draw hands. Seriously though, I miss doodling all through school. I don't know where that free creativity has gone, but I'm working to bring it back. Some early jobs left me in a dark rut, but I've settled into a decent job, a career even, and feel a certain mental calm and freedom trickling in.
I was aiming for something resembling a pose often struck by St Michael in depictions of him defeating demons. I don't have a goal for the actual identity of the figure, nor what they're doing. Ultimately, I want it to be triumphing over something. The end goal is to explore ideas for a tattoo. It already worked beautifully once, where I took a crude drawing to an artist with a style I liked, then watched them bring it to life with more talent and their own flair. I picked the elements, laid the composure, and outsourced the details to an amazing artist. What better meaning to a tattoo than "I basically made this"? With any luck, lightning will strike twice... Or more.
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Don't be afraid to use references! I use pinterest myself and if I find a cool pose I'll use it as a reference to draw something else. Everyone does it. Heck I know people that will take an image into whatever drawing program they use, set the opacity of it to like 50%, place a layer over it, and then just trace out the body and create whatever from that.
I use references because for the life of me I can never think up a cool dynamic pose. I can come up with everything else but for some odd reason creating a pose off the top of my head eludes me.
Yeah mate get that "how to draw anatomy" book and practice.
Cool that you are getting back to it! practice quick gesture drawing, a lot. Don't concern yourself with proportions and details, just the flow of the pose and the placement of the head, spine, torax, hips and extremities.
Kick ass, keep going!
We are in similar places, somewhere along the way I let my relationship with art fall apart, and picking it back up can be hard