What a tremendous pose! I can see why you'd want to draw it. Such vitality.

I did a quick (5 minute?) drawing of it, just as I would handle it. I'm not particularly pleased with it and would probably do it again if I didn't have the 11 Second Entry to finish today before going off to Canada.



I dunno if that's helpful at all, but it's where I would start from and then try again a few more times from there.

I think we're forgetting some of the basics, the thing that really makes this photo so powerful are the lines! They're amazing!

I drew some of them out with red, see how they all kind of join at the front hand? The legs have a very strong line pointing there, the shoulders too, even the character-right hand kind of angles there. I'm not quite sure why I drew the green triangle, it was just a really nice setup.

dgovil wrote:

Also one of the problems with that pose is he's off balance and has a wire holding him up in the back.
If you don't draw the cable, then to get the pose down you have to reinterpret the pose with his Center of Mass further forward, or shift his rear leg further back.

You should be doing that anyway. Pushing the poses. Unless you're drawing just to learn anatomy or learning "to see" and then DON'T draw poses and photos like this, draw very, very clear images where you can see every detail, as robcat said.

guys how do i directly post an image here ?? i want to show what i drew

Yeah drawing foreshortening is pretty tricky.  It's one of the things that a lot of artists struggle with, cause when it's not right, it's pretty blatant.  But here is what i would say:

1)  Keep it simple.  Start with simple shapes.. like just lines and circles.. before thinking about mass.  You can easily get your angles and proportions this way without committing to much to anything else.  Take it one step at a time.

2)  Look at the relation of body parts to other body parts.  Considering you have fleshed out his upper body already,  I'm pretty much looking at the positioning of his knee, and then his heel/foot.  So looking at the knee, I notice it's almost directly under his R elbow.  Also, I notice that the outside back part of his heel is on a straight line from the right side of his torso.  Also, often times if you're having trouble drawing the leg, or even the arm, you can look at relations and draw the foot (or hand) to help anchor you leg.  Sort of like IK drawing!

Here are some quick drawings to help show what i mean:





I tried to show the relation thing I was talking about, with the red lines.  And the last thing to consider, is that you just need to keep drawing and keep practicing.  The more you do it, the better you get, and more this will become natural to you.  I'm sure at some point, it's going to click and you'll be handling poses like this in no time

how to draw?

did you learn some basic skill of drawing?

it is not a hard work to finish, try to use some line to help you up.

e.g use line and circle make a reference then, draw the detail .

but in animation world, you should keep the line simple and simple.

It has been awhile since my figure drawing lessons but here is my 5 minute drawing attempt at that image. 

Last edited by Icontak (06-03-2012 10:00 am)

for directly post an image you have to find the image code.
there is more then one way to do that but what i do.
go to the photobucket.com and sign in and upload image and it will give you a image code
you can see in this image.