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Hey, I love your work. Do you have any exercises you recommend to get better at figure drawing or even just drawing in general?

Hi, thank you!

For figure drawing, I'd say there are two things that will really give you a good foundation - gesture drawing and anatomy.

Practicing gesture drawing (like doing super short poses, using different limitations i.e. continuous line, cutout, different mediums, not looking down) and focusing on getting the feeling of the pose and the weight nailed down more and more instinctually will give your drawings that much more of a solid base.

And learning anatomy will make it easier to understand what you're looking at when you're drawing, which in turn makes things faster.

Andrew Loomis' "Successful drawing" and Mike Mattesi's "Force" are two books that I found really helpful. I don't necessarily think the drawing styles in them are the most interesting, but the insights are useful and you can always pick and choose what you think is necessary for your own goals.

And draw a lot, don't be too precious about things. Especially figure drawing. Someone said to me they always try whatever idea pops into their head, even if it ruins the drawing, because that way they'll have learned something new, instead of played it safe.

Have fun drawing!

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spilled all my ink at the second session

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Life drawing on Saturday, first session

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Mina makes me cry

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voguing at the life drawing session!

y'all I did NOT tag this as mature content, why is dumblr slandering me

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Last four!

And all 30 PleinAirprils together. :)

All the paintings are based on photos I've taken myself, and all are painted in Procreate.

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nr. 22-26

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hi! your art is gorgeous! can i ask which brushes you use? (and if possible, can you link them?)

Thank you! I work in procreate and I mostly use the built-in brushes Mercury, Inkbleed and Inka, but sometimes a custom brush I got from a colleague on a job so I don't know where it's from originally, and then some brushes out of this brushpack by Mateusz Urbanowicz.

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nr. 16 to 21 (not in order)

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I thought I was picking an easy one bc barely any perspective but did not consider many light sources on wet street would kick my ass

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I tried a different brush!!

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looking for a place to swim

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Would you ever post a program of any kind for purchase teaching some of your incredible techniques? If not do you know of any resources that may be helpful for someone interested in your art & process?

This has never crossed my mind. Not sure how many would be interested.

As for resources... James Gurney's book Color and Light is great. Devin Korwin has some threads, and now courses, on fundamentals that I like. Other than that, I try to look at artists whose work I enjoy and a) collect their art somewhere (my pinterest is overflowing) so I have quick access to a bunch of art that I want to inform my current work in one place, and b) also sometimes write down in words which aspects of their art that I like, I find that makes it easier to synthesize what it is I want to learn and remember to implement it.

For plein air type paintings I look a lot at Kellan Jett, Pixelpchan, Kaye Bin, Sseongryul, Aymeric Kevin, Neo1900, and older nordic artists like Karl Nordström, Carl Larsson, Helmer Osslund, Akseli Gallen-Kallela to name a few (for environments, specifically).

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Nr. 11 & 12, to get caught up

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it's Paree

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nr. 9 (I have fallen behind!!)

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hey do you use refrences to draw? and if so, where do you get them from? i really like your stuff

Hello, I'm glad you like my paintings! Yes I use reference, mostly my own photos that I've taken over the years, specifically because I want to use them for reference like this.