Does this look like a good approach to drawing people?
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I've been trying to learn how to draw figures for years, and never getting that much better. Sure, I learned a little anatomy, made my characters shaped a little better, but one thing I always struggled with was actually drawing poses besides basic standing around poses. Action poses of any sort confused me. Almost everyone around me gave me suggestions to mechanically draw still pictures to improve my technique, but it never worked well for me. Then I stumble across this - [URL="http://design.tutsplus.com/articles/human-anatomy-fundamentals-learning-to-see-and-draw-energy--vector-17027"]http://design.tutsplus.com/articles/human-anatomy-fundamentals-learning-to-see-and-draw-energy--vector-17027[/URL]
And so far, this approach is working for me. It feels more natural, and I've always hated really rigid techniques anyways. I don't just want to copy what I see, but give things life and interpret the very essence and motion of it, not just what it looks like for one frame.
So, since mostly almost everyone who posts here is probably better at this than me, I wanted to ask, is this a good approach? Or will it lead me to some bad habits?
I want to draw fantasy characters, mostly. With anatomical accuracy, mild stylization... I know that I need to learn how to draw realistic anatomy BEFORE I stylize. (Wish I could've told my teenage self that)
What do you guys think? Good approach, bad approach?
