Now Strike a pose: Drawing a pose

As artist, we tend to have to study the body in a multitude of ways. In some of my previous post, I have shown you Gesture and Contour drawing as well as Anatomy. Well taking these teachings I want to explain how all 3 correlate into the posed figure.

Now, there are many ways we can take our pose but like both contour and gesture find a bunch of reference images of people in different poses. This will help you develop a concept of the pose you want.

Representational example

As well as taking anatomy of your figure in to consideration, there is a visual technique that I haven’t talked about before its called Foreshortening. The technique of foreshortening takes perspective and applies it to the body (primarily arms and legs). It can be set up to give the appearance that some parts of the body are closer than other parts of the body. In extreme cases, it can be used to warp the body to give it a bit of dynamic angle.

Here are two examples of posting what foreshortening can do:

I believe if you have followed the blog up to this point I want to see what you have learned from my previous post by trying to create a posed character. Then you can [Share Your Stuff]