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I'm still trying to learn how to draw people! I'm not there yet, but with every drawing, I get closer to what I'm trying to achieve...

What I've been trying to do every day is fill two sketchbook pages... the first with quick, 30-second gesture drawings from photos, to warm up and improve my fluidity, then I'll use the other page to draw more refined, five to ten minute drawings, also of people from photos. I can fit between 5 and 12 of them on a page.

After that's done, I try and draw relatively quick (about 10 minutes) figures from my imagination, and these are two examples of some of those. I've done a few now, but I'm embarrassed about showing off most of them.
I'm actually embarrassed about these, too... They were originally nude, but I added crudely-drawn bikinis EVEN THOUGH I've already got nude people in my gallery... I suppose I've been feeling uncomfortable about seeming like some kind of pervert, even though I'm sure everyone here realises that nudity is not necessarily sexual. Yes, I bet everyone totally thinks that, deep, deep down. All the young boys who watch me. I bet they all think that. "Nice lighting and composition!" they say, with their hands down their pants.
I bet that adding the bikinis makes these *even more sexual* than if they were nude though. That'd be just typical. o_O

I'm working on a bit at a time. Today I specifically studied the waist area... I still don't *fully* understand it, but I hope to get to that point through further study. I have some in-depth tutorials about muscles that'll help, when I can be bothered to actually do them.
I haven't done legs yet, and the legs that I was drawing without specific study were turning out knobbly and ugly rather than sleek and smooth, so I didn't bother adding them here.

I have been using this same face on most of my drawings of females, and I think I've talked about it before. Partly it's a chance to work on drawing a character consistently - which I've never been good at - but also it means that I don't have to really think about what to make the head look like, and can focus on drawing the body instead, which is the bit that matters for these studies.

I'm interested in developing a stylised style that I can draw quickly and consistently... I'm not going for realism. One day I'd want to make some kind of webcomic-like thing, so I'm aiming to end up with a style that I could use for that.

Anyway, I feel I've come a long way over the last few months if I can draw things like this without references now. There's still a long, long way to go, but I've probably made more progress this year than I had since I was about 9.

Description
I'm still trying to learn how to draw people! I'm not there yet, but with every drawing, I get closer to what I'm trying to achieve...

What I've been trying to do every day is fill two sketchbook pages... the first with quick, 30-second gesture drawings from photos, to warm up and improve my fluidity, then I'll use the other page to draw more refined, five to ten minute drawings, also of people from photos. I can fit between 5 and 12 of them on a page.

After that's done, I try and draw relatively quick (about 10 minutes) figures from my imagination, and these are two examples of some of those. I've done a few now, but I'm embarrassed about showing off most of them.
I'm actually embarrassed about these, too... They were originally nude, but I added crudely-drawn bikinis EVEN THOUGH I've already got nude people in my gallery... I suppose I've been feeling uncomfortable about seeming like some kind of pervert, even though I'm sure everyone here realises that nudity is not necessarily sexual. Yes, I bet everyone totally thinks that, deep, deep down. All the young boys who watch me. I bet they all think that. "Nice lighting and composition!" they say, with their hands down their pants.
I bet that adding the bikinis makes these *even more sexual* than if they were nude though. That'd be just typical. o_O

I'm working on a bit at a time. Today I specifically studied the waist area... I still don't *fully* understand it, but I hope to get to that point through further study. I have some in-depth tutorials about muscles that'll help, when I can be bothered to actually do them.
I haven't done legs yet, and the legs that I was drawing without specific study were turning out knobbly and ugly rather than sleek and smooth, so I didn't bother adding them here.

I have been using this same face on most of my drawings of females, and I think I've talked about it before. Partly it's a chance to work on drawing a character consistently - which I've never been good at - but also it means that I don't have to really think about what to make the head look like, and can focus on drawing the body instead, which is the bit that matters for these studies.

I'm interested in developing a stylised style that I can draw quickly and consistently... I'm not going for realism. One day I'd want to make some kind of webcomic-like thing, so I'm aiming to end up with a style that I could use for that.

Anyway, I feel I've come a long way over the last few months if I can draw things like this without references now. There's still a long, long way to go, but I've probably made more progress this year than I had since I was about 9.