{"id":4757,"date":"2014-04-12T22:49:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T22:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2014\/04\/12\/how-what-process-do-you-go-through-for-human\/"},"modified":"2014-04-12T22:49:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T22:49:04","slug":"how-what-process-do-you-go-through-for-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2014\/04\/12\/how-what-process-do-you-go-through-for-human\/","title":{"rendered":"How… what process do you go through for human drawings? I admit to drawing a humanoid maybe once or twice a year on average, but it’s like ??????? I know the key is to draw them more often, but how do you start out your drawings? Do you have any pointers that help you?"},"content":{"rendered":"

stripesandteeth<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Tbh\u2026I didn\u2019t start getting better at people until I was in a position where I had to haha. Like. Basically when I started taking figuring drawing courses and was drawing them every single day. If it wasn\u2019t during class, I had homework that involved figures of some kind. (Not to say, weLL OBVIOUSLY THIS IS THE ONLY WAY TO GET BETTER. But that\u2019s how it happened to me. I know plenty of people who just\u2026get better by always drawing people and using good reference)<\/p>\n

When my anime renaissance of sorts came along when I hit like..20?? That alone fueled me to get better because I wanted to indulge in fanart and stuff. So I guess one thing I would definitely suggest is finding something that will push you and inspire you to get better. My Hetalia phase got me started forever ago.<\/p>\n

As for the process? It\u2019s no different than the process for drawing something non-human. It\u2019s just different anatomy you\u2019re dealing with is all. I start off with a gesture of some kind and hop to it. Sometimes I\u2019ll just wing it from the beginning, often time I\u2019ll go through my heaping pile of references before I do any drawing to get some ideas if I don\u2019t have any.<\/p>\n

When I\u2019m doing full body stuff this is how I usually start off before I go in for a clean up job.<\/p>\n

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Right now I\u2019m kinda indulging in FMA at the moment, so I used good old Edward.<\/p>\n

Hope that kinda\u2026helps. At least a little.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Reblogging this here because I think this is very important. Having something to motivate you to get better is, I think, essential. Be that your own internal fire, wanting to get into college, wanting to draw fanart, whatever.<\/p>\n

Just whatever it takes to get you to practice, and practice a\u00a0lot.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Also look at that full-figure sketch before going in for the details! \u00a0A++<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

stripesandteeth: Tbh\u2026I didn\u2019t start getting better at people until I was in a position where I had to haha. Like. Basically when I started taking figuring drawing courses and was drawing them every single day. If it wasn\u2019t during class, I had homework that involved figures of some kind. (Not to say, weLL OBVIOUSLY THIS … Continue reading How… what process do you go through for human drawings? I admit to drawing a humanoid maybe once or twice a year on average, but it’s like ??????? I know the key is to draw them more often, but how do you start out your drawings? Do you have any pointers that help you?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44,618,2004,742,2003],"class_list":["post-4757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art","tag-important","tag-is-amazing","tag-reference","tag-stripesandteeth","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}