Term 1 - Figure Drawing AndyDB

Hey AndyDB!
Hope you don't mind if I redline, I'm not particularly good at explaining with words and seeing things visually always helps me. A handful of your practices have a line of action that resembles an S. Going off of whats said in the video, standing poses don't' have a pronounced curve but they not straight either. Since this is a nude figure drawing portion, perhaps take a look at some nude stock photos and practice lines of actions and cylinders on those. To alleviate your issue with stiff poses on petite figures, perhaps add the curve that goes along with the joints in the photo reference.

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Hey AndyDB, nice job on those figures. You got those action lines and cylinders pretty neatly! As critique I would say: try to focus less on the contour of the figure. Focus instead of simplifying the forms to simple basic shapes (cylinders, boxes, ovals, with various proportions) and construct a figure with those using the action lines as a guide. As to the 'stiffness' you mention, that could be related to not using enough gesture in the limbs. Use flowly curves rather than straights for those limbs. When you construct your body parts on top of that, the figure will naturally 'stiffen' out a bit anyway. By having a tad more curvy gesture lines you can compensate for that to avoid overly stiff characters. Anyway keep it up! Looking forward to seeing you progress.