Improve your Figure Drawing with Boring Poses

You can greatly improve your figure drawing by working with boring poses! I wanted to make this video to encourage you to not skip over poses that you might think are uninteresting. Instead of dismissing poses that we think are dull, we can use these opportunities to go deeper in our drawing practice, and to improve our observation. In this video, I’ll share with you my thoughts on what to do if the pose is boring, and this one tip is my top tip to improve your gesture drawing, figure drawing studies in charcoal, gesture drawing in general. This applies if you are drawing at home, in your sketchbook, or in a live figure drawing class.
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[@Drawing-Life]

Thank you so much for watching! Hope this helps you in your figure drawing to better tackle those un-interesting poses or subjects! What have been your breakthroughs in drawing? I'd love to hear about it in the comments :)

[@g3nius]

I really like your approach. A natural and intuitiv way.

[@ARTYCOATY]

Great art! Thank you for sharing your wonderful work. Your work is very great. And I will continue to support you.

[@Drawing-Life]

Thank you so much, coming from your that means a lot!! Love your channel :)

[@rolfarnquist8343]

Another great job Siobhan! Alas, I’ve gotten behind again in watching your videos. Am now catching up. Like your philosophy on combining contour with gesture principles. So many ways to draw shown/described on the internet. It can get confusing. I like you philosophy.

[@Drawing-Life]

Thank you Rolf! I'm aiming to do 2 videos a month, as it's the most i can do at the moment, but glad to hear you are still interested in watching! Appreciate your support :)

[@w00olf]

Thank you for sharing your wonderful work.

[@albertromero6575]

Love your drawing approach.

[@Drawing-Life]

Thank you for watching! :)

[@funkyc6755]

Great video!

[@GuReumArtStudio]

Amazing sketch. Thank you for sharing!

[@kasandramanering7400]

I love this idea, Siobhan. Like you, I'm always scouring for poses that appeal, but maybe there's more to be learned from ones that don't. This model is beautiful. I have often thought of drawing her, but none of her poses leapt out. I think I'll try one now. Thank you for the inspiration!

[@Drawing-Life]

Thanks so much Kasandra! I agree, actually she is one of my favorite models to draw, very natural poses - not overly "posing" lol! Thanks for watching, really appreciate it :) I have been away from instagram for a while, must catch up on your work! :)

[@kasandramanering7400]

@@Drawing-LifeI agree. Her poses are more natural. I, too, have been away from Instagram. I'm working hard to improve my watercolour skills and it's taking most of my spare time. It's funny because I feel like I do my best figure/portrait type work in charcoal and pencil. It's a huge curve to paint figures - like learning the figure all over again. I didn't think it would be like that. I'm taking a break from the frustration of that (haha!) and doing some more charcoal, so I'll post some again soon.

[@roycarmona1740]

I've been loving your videos! thank you so much for the great content

[@Drawing-Life]

Wow, thanks Roy, that is wonderful to hear, I really appreciate it :)

[@kalpanaartwork4230]

Beautiful drawing 😊😊

[@antwanyarbrough6485]

Love the title

[@Drawing-Life]

Haha, thanks! :) hope you enjoyed the video too tho!

[@HerradaJulio]

Thanks.