How to draw ANY POSE in 10 minutes _ DrawlikeaSir

Hi guys , my name is Marcel .

And today you are going to learn how to draw poses like us , sir .

Again , I've already made a video on how to draw poses which you might have already seen .

But it's a pretty old video and I thought it might be helpful to make another one in which you can see how I draw poses .

Yes , of course , there's going to be a step by step part , some tips and tricks for you to use and so on and so on .

But for now you're going to learn how to draw poses like a set .

Again , of course , you might have already taken a look at the thumbnail and said , yeah , I want to draw a pose like that .

But in order to draw poses , you have to understand how to construct them first .

And that's how I'm doing things as always try breaking your subject apart into its most simple components .

So in easier terms , you need to simplify a body first .

The worst mistakes beginners make is that they try drawing detailed poses right from the start .

That's not how you should do it at the beginning because even pros use basic shapes first .

That's the best way to get your pose down reliably and anatomically correct .

Anyways , there are many different ways and shapes to simplify a body with in this video , I'll show you my approach .

So this is the way I started drawing a human body in case you wonder , some people like to draw the rib cage around other people like to draw them like a square .

It honestly doesn't matter for starters just draw it the way you are more comfortable with .

Meanwhile , I'm trying to draw the rib cage as an oval shape since that's anatomically more correct .

Anyways , let's start out with drawing an easy pose for starters .

Let's say I want to draw something simple like this pose .

Now , I'm not just drawing in every single lego brick and color of the day .

My approach is to determine the direction of this body first .

So let's say I'm starting with that right .

I'm drawing in an oval shape and from the very get go , I determine which way it's facing .

Yeah , that's kind of a no brainer .

You've seen this dozens of times .

I know .

But the same thing also goes for the rib cage as well because the rip cage is kind of the main part of your body .

If it's facing the wrong direction , all of the limbs attached to it will be off as well .

You determine the direction of your rib cage with two lights first with the way your shoulders are facing for that , you draw a horizontal line and then you draw in the way your rip cage is angled with the vertical line .

The most surprising thing might be this was the hardest part .

No , really , everything that's still missing are the limbs you can continue any way you like .

For the sake of this tutorial , let's just complete the torso underneath your rip cage .

There is a middle part containing your stomach and also there's this triangular shape that's connecting both of your legs .

And the thing is there's barely anything left .

I have to say about this drawing .

The rest of this stigma like figure is kind of self explanatory .

You draw circles for shoulders , tubes for limbs and then again circles for joints .

There's nothing more that I could explain to you with this easy pose .

And yes , the very same thing goes for your other limbs as well .

And if you're unsure about how long the arm is supposed to be , how big you have to draw the head , you can just refer to your reference .

Now , of course , this isn't a finished drawing .

This is just basically a stigma or maybe a glorified lego statue .

But since you now have the template drawn out , you can just apply your atomical knowledge to this blank figure .

So if you know how to draw muscles and human anatomy , you can just apply your knowledge as usual .

And if you don't know how to draw muscles or human bodies .

You can just check out my video where I showed you how to draw a relatively detailed human body with almost every muscle for beginners because I'm not going to explain muscles in this video again .

Instead I'll help you tackle harder poses .

This post from before was kind of simple , right ?

That's because it's very two D and flat .

It's not a bad pose .

It's just very simple .

I think you'll be struggling when you want to draw something more like let's say this since this video is about drawing every pose , I'm trying to help you drawing harder poses as well .

Many people still approached these poses the way I just did , which is drawing them with simple building blocks , et cetera .

And there's nothing wrong with that approach .

But actually , when I'm drawing complicated poses , I'm applying a very certain trick in beforehand .

Maybe you can even recall my old posing video where I said that drawing smaller poses is much more useful since it helps you with keeping an overview .

And that's why I'm always drawing thumbnail sketches first .

That's basically a small version of your drawing or artwork before you start working on the real deal .

And in case you don't believe this is actually helpful .

Yes , I drew thumbnail sketches for every single artwork I drew last year , without exception , every single one in case you're asking why it's because you don't hesitate to correct stuff .

And that's very important with harder poses .

Now , let's compare this chat thumbnail sketch method to the Virgin novice method from the beginning .

Imagine you're drawing a detailed pose right from the get go and then you're noticing , oh man , something's wrong with the arm .

So you have to erase and redraw the entire arm , including all of its details and then you're noticing .

Oh , maybe it was just the shoulder , I guess , rinse and repeat and so on .

You know what this amounts to .

Don't even bother with this method .

If you're just having a tiny thumbnail sketch , you can endlessly adjust and erase things in the seconds .

Also , that's very helpful when you're drawing artworks with multiple people in it , it just helps you not to lose track of what's important .

So you can basically break down any complicated pose as an easy download sketch first , maybe even just as a stick man .

If you're really struggling , you're basically drawing yourself a blueprint of the pose you want to draw .

This also gives you more confidence since , well , you already drew the pose once now , you just need to do the same thing just a bit bigger and while doing so you can just reference your own previous sketch of it .

And by the way , if you want to see more drawings and thumbnail sketches , I did , I released two art books last year and in my smaller art book , like a sketch , you can see almost every single drawing I made last year .

Yes .

Also including their thumbnail sketches .

If you're interested in that , go ahead and check out my online shop .

Anyway , I know the struggles when you're endlessly redrawing something and getting more and more frustrated in the process , just try making a thumbnail sketch to avoid that .

Also , looking at this comparison , I think you can see that drawing a smaller version first helps you a lot with keeping an overview of the post .

I mean , you can't even see the whole thing without zooming out .

That's what she said .

Sorry .

By the way , don't hesitate to render your thumbnail sketch out a bit on this done sketch .

I spent over an hour just because I always changed or rearranged something .

By the way , I'd love to show you the finished artwork of this as a comparison , but I'm still working on it .

I'll just post it on my social media once I'm done with it .

Of course , when making my thumbnail sketches , I still sometimes use references as well .

I still think photo references go a long way kind of make sense .

Having a human reference is the best thing to learn when drawing , you know humans .

That's why you should definitely check out life drawing .

There are so many challenge videos here on youtube which will help you get down poses faster .

This is honestly the certified best way to learn drawing poses since that's the way they learn drawing poses in basically every art school .

But yeah , combining all of these tricks will help you drawing pretty much every pose there is .

And of course , this won't work overnight .

You'll still need to practice with all of these methods first .

But when you do this is the very first step in drawing poses from imagination .

And also I do have more tricks up my sleeve .

But this video is long enough as this .

What do you say ?

Do you want the full video about how to draw poses from imagination ?

If there's enough support for this ?

I'm happy to make another one .

But don't ever forget .

Drawing from imagination is nice though .

You should still always use references .

Shut up .

I know what you want to say .

You want to say that drawing with references is cheating and that pros don't use references , but that's total bull crap because even pros like post for their own drawing .

So that's not a reason at all not to use references yourself .

I just wanted to ask if I could use the bathroom .

Oh yeah .

Yeah , it's OK .

I don't need to anymore .

No .

Well done .

If you're interested in more tutorials for me , check them out .

I've made some on basically everything from drawing perspective to drawing air or how to shape .

They're all on my channel and of course they're all free well done .

My name's been Marcel and I'll see you guys in the next lesson .