How well have you managed to capture the poses? What could be improved?
Overall I’m satisfied with how I captured the poses. Sometimes there are slight errors of proportion but they don’t seem to disturb understanding of the pose. The main step forward to make would be to draw other people.
I made an attempt to look for videos of dancing people with the idea that I could pause them and draw the figures. I thought they might take up interesting poses full of energy. I tried this with chachacha videos. When looking at several paused images, I abandoned the idea because the figures on my computer screen were so small, and the poses looked artificial. Maybe I object that this task would be “too easy” in that it omits the step which I find most important when learning to draw, the translation from the real world to a 2-dimensional representation.
Maybe the approach works better when I try the same on my TV, because then the images would be larger. There’ll be a project “moving figure”, and TV watching might work quite well for that. For still poses, I might try news programs or talk shows, probably people remain in the same position for longer than they’d do in a movie. I’m a great fan of cooking shows, so maybe I’ll try depicting the chefs as well.
Do you think that your figures balanced? If not, where did you go wrong?
Yes, I think most of my figures are balanced. Difficult were the two backwards bent positions, one kneeling and the other standing. But actually yes, I think the balance worked quite well.
How did you go about conveying a sense of energy?
I think the sense of energy comes from the pose which depicts a movement, but also from my very quick and sparse line work. Interestingly, the one pose where I added shadings to correct an error looks strange but nevertheless quite energetic.