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A tutorial 8D I listened to the commenters in my last poll thingy and went with a pose tutorial first. Hopefully someone finds this helpful!
Here are some additional links on DA:
Anatomy tutorials:
cedarseed.deviantart.com/art/B… artistshospital.deviantart.com…
Another great pose reference:
what-i-do-is-secret.deviantart…
*edit*
And another pose reference link suggested by Kidj3 , www.posemaniacs.com/pose/thirt…
An anatomy ref link suggested by Nethrion , www.elfwood.com/farp/figure/wi…
Comment if you have any questions or if I made a typo or something, not that I'll actually fix it, haha.
My other tutorials:
Expression tutorial
Hand tutorial
Foot tutorial
Ladies tutorial
Fellas tutorial
Face tutorial
Commission Tutorial
Coloring Walkthrough
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Comments: 1425
How are there never any sketch lines?
How long did it take you to get this good?
Or were you born with it?
>:C
FRUSTRATED!!!
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There were sketch lines 
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ah ha. Well, I have 7 more years to practice then I guess. Did you take any lessons or anything? Any extra tips to help me out. For example do art in highschool or take an art class after school?
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Nope, just observation and practice
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Thank you for all of your tips and help (:
You are a big inspiration to me.
hehe. Keep up the good work.
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is that last pose related to Avatar: TLA by any chance?
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Chinchillas.
Got it.
Epic tutorial, btw. ^^ I think it'll help me out a lot.
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I love this. Great tutorial and funny as heck (plus, it has an obligatory giant chinchilla).
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This tutorial was too awesome. Also, chinchillas FTW!
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AWESOME! Good advice, and chinchillas!
Thanks for helping me avoid my English commentary!
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I tend to have trouble WHAT pose to do for my chars
how do you get around to doing it?.. if you have any pointers that could help
i can try and explain better if you dont get what ive just said
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Like you're not sure what pose looks good? The way I do it sometimes is to act it out... pretend you are in the same situation as one of your characters. If they're being thrown, jump backwards onto your bed or something and try to take note of what you're body is doing. Or, you can google for images that are similar to what you'd like your pose to look like (for things like running, jumping, etc)
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actually im more intrested when you 1st make them (i mean where opacity is...but i cnt see them clearly) but nice tutorial...
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That is just a rough sketch
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This probably won't get answered, but I might as well ask.
I see this tip repeated over and over: flowy lines, don't draw stiff characters, that kind of thing. I totally agree. The art that works for me is dynamic and fluid. Problem is, I have no idea how to do that myself. My sketches are a complete mess, and I usually rework poses so much that I get sick of the drawing. I've done my share of drawing by reference (even though there's only so much you can do when you're self-taught) but it still doesn't work. Or rather, it only works occasionally when I'm super inspired. Not when I have to get inspired for a commission. What to do?
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If you have messy sketches but you like what you can see in them, then the issue is finding the "line of best fit" (kind of like in algebra). Somewhere in there is the line that works for you, and is the most dynamic. You can refine your lines down to that one line by using layers in photoshop or some other program. I do it by sketching loosely on one layer, then turning down the opacity from that layer and then putting a new layer on top and trying to find the lines I want. Then repeat several times until you find the lineart you want. IRL this is the equivalent of using several pieces of tracing paper to get to the final version, which you'd get onto paper with a lightbox.
Reworking an original sketch doesn't tend to help, since you're erasing the lines you need as reference.
Hope that helps.
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This helped a ton! And its true I do get a little nervous using references because I feel like Im cheating or something.
Thank so much for this!
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Oh this is wonderful! I lol'd at the cake part. It's so helpful! <33
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I could have sworn pose triple star was spider man =3=
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The **pose looks like Brian Regan in his Emergency Room standup.
"Did you get some eight? Have some eight! Some eight!" [link] at 8:04
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Your tutorials are amazing, thank you.
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Thanks for making all these tutorials. I'm eating them up as I speak ("gasp! it's impolite to talk when you chew!" my bad!)
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I love your tutorials. I feel like they will help me become a better impromptu artist. Don't want to keep looking at 50 pictures to figure out how one pose should go.
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hehehe, you said dedu...and drew a fat guy dropping cake.
I LOVE this tutorial! /faved~
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Great tutorial. It has good tips as well as some great poses.
Chinchillas shall rule teh earth.
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my anatomy sucks...and finding this not only helped with poses and accuracy, but made me giggle.
fantastic tutorial and i'm throwing it straight into the reference pile.
thanks a bunch.
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Of course! Chinchillas! How could I have been so blind? XD Thank you for showing me the error of my ways.
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Thanks for the great tutorial! I used it as a reference for one of my drawings, I hope you don't mind: [link]
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lol. do u kno what desu means? cuz it makes sense how u put it it's just tht alot of ppl who use it don't kno what it means. XD
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Saying this now, Great tutorial and I knew it was your making without seeing your icon or your username.
I love your style, forever and always and of course I love your comic The Meek.
D: So much love, I tell you!
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wow this really helps me thanks alot
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Once again, very useful. I love how fluent your motions are, even when still.
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