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trying to remember how to draw // remembering I never figured out how to draw people (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by XeroxCool@lemmy.world to c/artshare@lemmy.world

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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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[–] GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 6 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

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

[–] al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 3 days ago

Yeah mate get that "how to draw anatomy" book and practice.