Working on poses (Patreon)

Here's a little anecdote for all of you, and that's how I really don't like setting up character poses.

Don't get me wrong, its a fun and rewarding part of design, but it can be really daunting when it takes up sooo much time! This actually the reason I switched over to 3d to pose my models. Simply trying to figure out how a character should stand, their posture and gesture, working with balance and perspective, and trying to figure all of that effectively made working on artwork a pain. Especially way back in the day when I used pencil and paper, it was always a chore.

Well now its a decade later, and I've grown better skilled and more ambitious with the types of shots and angles I want to draw. Though at the same time those same impatient feelings have started to come back. Ideally I wish I could skip the planning step and just get to drawing. Because after I've devoted so much time to figuring out what I want to draw, I'll find myself too drained to actually start drawing.

And so I got an idea. What if I just take some time and just make a ton of poses in advanced? This won't work for comic strips where I'm trying to tell a sequential story, but for standalone art pieces, having everything posed out well in advanced would make it so I could just grab a pose at random and start working. And so that's what I've been doing.

I don't think I'll be posting what I've done so far, because you aren't here to see 3D mockups you're here to see the finished work. But when I have the time I've been doing virtual photoshoots in order to build up a catalogue for later use. The first model of which is my swamp frog Ariana. But of course Faulkner is in the dressing room waiting for his turn too.