Proko - How to Draw Exaggerated Poses

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How to Draw Exaggerated Poses

by Stan Prokopenko in Figure Drawing Fundamentals

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It took a while, but I learned so much! In some I didn't have the space to extend to four figures, and, since I don't know a lot of anatomy I kept the robotic exaggeration versions as the third pose. I am getting more confident with mannequinization each day, and this course is perfect preparation for a deep-dive into anatomy. I go out of my way to minimize use of the digital eraser as well as ctrl+z, since I come from traditional and want to replicate that experience as much as possible. In some, I feel like I took too much liberty in the exaggeration so it became another pose entirely. And the hardest for me is re-orienting the upper limbs. I hope this will become easier after the anatomy course.

LESSON NOTES

You want an easier way of exaggerating a pose?

Ideally, you want to get to the point where you can look at the model, or a photo, and design/change it in the way you want to as you’re drawing it. That’s what you're working towards.

But copying your reference is hard enough… Changing it in your mind and then drawing it that way and still making it look natural.. Now that’s hard.. And it takes a very long time to develop the ability to do that successfully. So I want to give you an approach that might help you a bit to push and change your reference. It’s like training wheels. We’re gonna take it one step at a time. And when you’re ready you can combine all the steps into one. And eventually, do it from your imagination.

And its also just a really good exercise to get you better at drawing the figure in general.

I broke up this approach into 4 steps...

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Exaggerate Some Poses

Try doing the process that I just described from any poses you feel could be more dynamic. I’ve also included a collection of a few photos with 2 versions of the same pose. One rigid and another more dynamic one. Try exaggerating the rigid ones and check your drawing against the dynamic version.

Keep in mind that there are multiple ways of exaggerating something. If you choose to exaggerate in one way, then check it against the dynamic version and it’s different, that doesn’t mean yours is wrong. They could both be right. You chose to exaggerate it one way and the model chose another way. The dynamic pose is just there as a suggestion. But keep in mind that the model can actually feel the pose. Compare yours to it and see if there’s something you like better in the dynamic photo. Is there something you can learn from it?

mike mcdonald

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It’s kind of interesting - I always thought it was weird when Stan would say “exaggerate because it will get stiff” but now I get it. You’ll think you’re exaggerating, you’ll think you’re capturing motion, but then it won’t even look different at the end. I had to shift the robo bean what seemed like a comical amount, and you can still barely tell I altered the poses.