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Tutorial 53 - The Quick Pose
🕑 Added 2016-02-23 09:29:39 +0000 UTC The quick pose is an exercise designed to force us to capture the spirit of a pose, to teach us how to identify the areas of most visual importance and to warm us up for the longer poses.The quick pose usually has a time range from a few seconds to several (5-10) minutes. After doing many quick pose drawings we are more prepared to handle longer poses. We are generally relieved to have more time to carefully think about the drawing.
There's a lot we can communicate with minimal marks when working with quick poses. There's no right or wrong way to begin a quick pose drawing but we should try to get the whole message across in as little as possible.
Try to test yourself; if you had to communicate this pose in one mark, what mark would be best? When you've made that mark, think about this question again. If you had just one more mark to add, what mark would be best?
We learn a special kind of discipline when thinking in this way. We learn how to answer the most important question in visual arts and we learn how to answer that question quickly. What is the best mark I can make? Eventually, the answer will become a subconscious act.
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Nathan Aardvark
Thanks Ric! :)
what a great way of looking at a figure... one critical mark at a time. Thanks Nathan!
Nathan Aardvark
:) Hey Spiros, haha! Well, it's all about making mistakes and learning from them, trying to get over them for the next drawing. It's important you don't get attached to the drawing. To make sure this happens, make many sketches on one piece of paper, so that the drawings overlap. That way it will feel more like a study than an illustration. Also, you don't need to know anatomy for life drawing if you can draw what you see in front of you. These quick poses will help you learn how to represent complex anatomical forms in just a line or two. Notice how rough this drawing is in most places. A few blobs for the knee and shoulder, one value for the core shadow, one for the midtone, a light line for contour detail, and that's it. If you want to get good at this style of drawing, fast, then all you need to do is keep a sketchbook on you and draw the people you see around you as much as possible. If you can fill a sketchbook in a few weeks then you're winning! :)
Spiros Mouzakitis
I tested myself and failed! hahaha! Step 1 is really hard for me, i guess the exercise assumes that one has mastered anatomy beforehand? Many thanks for all the tutorials i love them!
