[music] Hi guys. My name is Marcel
and today, you are going to learn how to draw poses like a Sir. Again. I've already made a video on how to draw poses,
which you might have already seen but it's a pretty old video.
And I thought it might be helpful to make another one in which you can see how I draw poses. Yes, of course.
There's going to be a step by step part, some tips and tricks for you to use and so on and so on. But for now, you're going to learn how to draw poses like a Sir. Again. [music] Of course you might have already taken a look
at the thumbnail and said, "Yeah, I wanna draw a pose like that." But in order to draw poses, you have to understand
how to construct them first. And that's how I'm doing things. As always, try breaking your subject apart
into its most simple components. So in easier terms, you need to simplify a body first. The worst mistakes beginners make is that they
try drawing detailed poses right from the start. That's not how you should do it at the beginning because even pros use basic shapes first. That's the best way to get your pose down
reliably and anatomically correct. Anyways, there are many different ways and shapes
to simplify a body with. In this video, I'll show you my approach. So this is the way I started drawing a human body. In case you wondered, some people like to draw the rib cage round.
Other people like to draw them like a square. It honestly doesn't matter.
For starters, just draw it the way you are more comfortable with. Meanwhile, I'm trying to draw the rib cage
as an oval shape since that's anatomically more correct. Anyways, let's start out with drawing an easy pose for starters. Let's say I wanna draw something simple
like this pose. Now I'm not just drawing in every single Lego brick
and call it a day. My approach is to determine the direction of this body first. So let's say I'm starting with that, right? I'm drawing in an oval shape and from the very get-go,
I determine which way it's facing. Yeah. That's kind of a no-brainer.
You've seen this dozens of times, I know. But the same thing also goes for the rib cage as well because the rib cage is kind of the main part of your body. If it's facing the wrong direction, all of the limbs
attached to it will be off as well. You determine the direction of your rib cage with two lines. First, with the way your shoulders are facing. For that, you draw a horizontal line. And then you draw in the way you rib cage
is angled with a vertical line. The most surprising thing might be this was the hardest part. No, really. Everything that's still missing are the limbs. You can continue any way you like. For the sake of this tutorial, let's just complete the torso. Underneath your rib cage, there is a middle part
containing your stomach. And also, there's this triangular shape that's
connecting both of your legs. And the thing is there's barely anything left
I have to say about this. Drawing the rest of this stickman-like figure
is kind of self-explanatory. You draw circles for shoulders, tubes for limbs, and then again,
circles for joints. There's nothing more that I could explain to you
with this easy pose. And yes, the very same thing goes for your other limbs as well. And if you're unsure about how long the arm is supposed to be
or how big you have to draw the head, you can just refer to your reference. Now, of course, this isn't a finished drawing. This is just basically a stickman or maybe a glorified Lego statue. But since you now have the template drawn out, you can just apply your anatomical knowledge to this blank figure. So if you know how to draw muscles and human anatomy, you can just apply your knowledge as usual. And if you don't know how to draw muscles or human bodies, you can just check out my video where I showed you
how to draw a relatively detailed human body with almost every muscle for beginners. Because I'm not going to explain muscles in this video again. Instead, I'll help you tackle harder poses. This pose from before was kind of simple, right? That's because it's very 2D and flat. It's not a bad pose, it's just very simple. I think you'll be struggling when you want to draw something more
like, let's say this. Since this video is about drawing every pose,
I'm trying to help you drawing harder poses as well. Many people still approach these poses the way I just did with just drawing them with simple building blocks, et cetera. And there's nothing wrong with that approach,
but actually, when I'm drawing complicated poses,
I'm applying a very certain trick in beforehand. Maybe you can even recall my old posing video
where I set said that drawing smaller poses is much more useful since it helps you with keeping an overview. And that's why I'm always drawing thumbnail sketches first. That's basically a small version of your drawing
or artwork before you start working on the real deal. And in case you don't believe this is actually helpful, yes, I drew thumbnail sketches for
every single artwork I drew last year without exception. Every single one. in case you're asking why,
it's because you don't hesitate to correct stuff. And that's very important with harder poses. Now, let's compare this chad thumbnail sketch method to the virgin novice method from the beginning. Imagine you're drawing a detailed pose right from the get-go and then you're noticing,
"Oh man, something's wrong with the arm." so you have to erase and redraw the entire arm, including all of its details. And then you're noticing.
"Oh, maybe it was just the shoulder, I guess." Rinse and repeat and so on. You know what this amounts to?
Don't even bother with this method. If you're just having a tiny thumbnail sketch,
you can endlessly adjust and erase things in the seconds. Also, that's very helpful when you're drawing artworks
with multiple people in it. It just helps you not to lose track of what's important. So you can basically break down any complicated
pose as an easy thumbnail sketch first, maybe even just as a stickman if you're really struggling. You're basically drawing yourself a blueprint
of the pose you wanna draw. This also gives you more confidence, since, well, you already drew the pose once. Now, you just need to do the same thing,
but just a bit bigger. And while doing so, you can just reference
your own previous sketch of it. And by the way, if you wanna see more drawings
and thumbnail sketches I did, I released two artbooks last year and
in my smaller artbook, Like a Sketch, you can see almost every single drawing I've made last year. Yes, also including their thumbnail sketches. If you're interested in that,
go ahead and check out my online shop. Anyway, I know the struggles when
you're endlessly redrawing something and getting more and more frustrated in the process. Just try making a thumbnail sketch to avoid that. Also, looking at this comparison, I think you can see
that drawing a smaller version first helps you a lot with keeping an overview of the pose. I mean, you can't even see the whole thing
without zooming out. That's what she said. Sorry. By the way, don't hesitate to render your thumbnail
sketch out of it. On this thumbnail sketch, I spent over an hour just because I always changed or rearranged something. By the way, I'd love to show you the finished artwork
of this as a comparison but I'm still working on it. I'll just post it on my social media once I'm done with it. Of course, when making my thumbnail sketches,
I still sometimes use references as well. I still think photo references go a long way. Kind of makes sense. Having a human reference
is the best thing to learn when drawing you know, humans. That's why you should definitely check out life drawing. There are so many challenge videos here on YouTube which will help you get down poses faster. This is honestly the certified best way to learn drawing poses since that's the way they learn drawing poses
in basically every art school. But yeah, combining all of these tricks will help you
drawing pretty much every pose there is. And of course, this won't work overnight. You'll still need to practice with all of these methods first. But when you do, this is the very first step
in drawing poses from imagination. And also, I do have more tricks up my sleeve, but this video is long enough as this. What do you say? Do you want a full video about
how to draw poses from imagination? If there's enough support for this,
I'm happy to make another one. But don't ever forget drawing from imagination is nice but you should still always use references when-- -Oh, wait. Can I--
-Shut up! I know what you want to say. You want to say that drawing with references
is cheating and that pros don't use references but that's total bullcrap, because even pros
like Boichi pose for their own drawings so that's not a reason at all
not to use references yourself. I just wanted to ask if I could use the bathroom. Oh, yea- yeah, go. -That's okay. I don't need to anymore.
-Oh. Well then, if you're interested in more tutorials from me,
check them out. I've made some on basically everything -- from drawing perspective to drawing hair
or how to shade -- they're all on my channel. And of course, they're all free. Welcome. My name is Ben Marcel
and I'll see you guys in the next lesson. [music] [sobs] Shut the f--