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TUTORIAL VIDEO // constructing a pose (Patreon)

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2020-06-18 19:27:42
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Here it is: my first tutorial video! It was intended as a mini-tutorial but I was shocked to find that it was 50 minutes long when I was finished editing it! So I guess that just makes this a proper, full-on tutorial, haha. This is my first time recording a tutorial in this format: just casually talking while drawing. Let me know what you think and whether you find it useful! Any and all feedback is welcome! And I hope it answers any questions you might have about constructing a pose! If not, just drop your question below. 

Some stuff referenced in the video: 

 • The brush I use is the Macalabs HB brush and I talk more about it in this post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/step-by-step-i-34615265

 • The stock photos are from SenshiStock: https://www.deviantart.com/senshistock

 • And here is a compilation of procreate process vids where you can see me using this character construction technique in the sketching phase of each drawing: https://www.patreon.com/posts/process-video-35948435

Hope you enjoy!!

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Anonymous

Hi Loish, I'm new to your patreon and wanted to tell you THANK-YOU ❤️ for the clear and detailed way you explain all the topics making them look easier and making me gain confidence. I'm learning a lot with your videos, your patreon is pure gold. God bless you 💐

Anonymous

This was super helpful - especially about rhythm and shapes. There were many small details like how the thigh can tell you so much about balance... there are real gems here! And I love how we both drew from reference and constructed from imagination. thank you so much!!

Anonymous

I’m new here and more amazed every single tutorial I watch! Thank you for doing so much!

Loish
>>114658930

so happy to hear that stefi! thanks so much for the support!

Anonymous

hi, Loish. I have really just started looking at your tutorials and I am really glad to be supporting you! Not only I am supporting an amazing artist I admire, but I am also learning from you and your incredible videos :)

Anonymous

This was the most helpfull pose-related video I have ever seen!!

Anonymous

I come to these tutorials more than once because I always forget some tips and learn new things. Really saving me here haha

Anonymous

Thank you! I have learned so much from your Patreon. Especially during the sheltering in. I appreciate the talks and your activism as well. Continue to inspire others!

Kelly Johnson

Longer is always better Lois. We love to get into that beautiful artistic head of yours. And thank you for your continued support of the Black Lives Matter movement, even though as you have said it doesn't have much of a voice in the Netherlands.

Anonymous

I don't actually care if it is a 2 hours video!, it's your time and effort and actually we are learning from you!...This is much more than better for me!

Loish
>>38871567

thank you! I was actually amazed by the number of people who showed up to the BLM protests all across the netherlands. it exceeded everyone's expectations! so hopefully it will continue and more things will change around here.

Anonymous
>>38871784

Ok...Watched it, and for me, it was perfect!. Love that sound effect you add to the hair breaking the line of action at your last breakdown ahaha. And it's so wonderful to think not just in anatomy, but in the movement and the shapes who composes the character!. Thank u for this

Anonymous

Thank you for this video! I really struggle with perfectionism, especially in the initial sketches, so having a longer tutorial like this essentially teaching you it’s okay to build up the sketch rather than have it perfect all at once is incredibly helpful!

Anonymous

What a wonderful gift to learners like us Loish. We all strive to do better and demonstrations like this are so helpful.

Anonymous

I really loved this, thank you Lois! Had such a natural and easy-to-follow flow <3

Anonymous

This was incredibly valuable! That video flew by! I loved this format and found it very helpful to watch you in real time with your commentary. Looking forward to more tutorials!

Anonymous

That was really great and I am really glad it turned into a full tutorial. I felt like I was getting something out of the tutorial pretty much all the way through. Thank you for making this and I am looking forward to the next one.

Anonymous

This was amazing!!!! I watched it fully and enjoyed it. Taught it me very much. Please please continue!!!

Anonymous

Great!!! I like, that it’s a full tutorial and not a mini tutorial

Anonymous

This video was rad! Absolutely more than I anticipated and this isn’t the first tutorial I did by you , you have a way with teaching ! Best patron

Lynn Larson

ThankyouthankyouthankyouTHANKYOU! This has been one of the most helpful videos on poses that I have watched! I've watched tons on doing quick figure sketches and line of action, but this made it all make sense in my brain! I had more luck trying random poses and figure sketching following along than i have in my years of fumbling. Did I mention thank you? <3

Anonymous

Oh my gosh, this was amazing! Thank you!

Anonymous

This is brilliant. Thank you for taking the time to make such an easy-to-follow guide!

Anonymous

The lines you draw are so elegant! Do you have any advice for drawing long smooth lines for a newbie to the digital art world? I’ve only recently switched from using a pencil and paper... 😬 Boy, it’s a rough ride. Also, your video is fantastic! Thank you for putting this together!

Anonymous

Wonderful tutorial video Loish! so well explained. Thank you!

Kelly Johnson

Lois lives in the Netherlands. But her accent is American English. How does she do it?

Anonymous

This was great to watch! Do you have any advice on how to tell if you've pushed the gesture too far? I've been trying to add more exaggeration to my poses but am realising as I add detail that the body can start to look a bit broken. Do you just trust your gut?

Anonymous

i love this video so much, thanks lois

Anonymous

Amazing tutorial and really helpful! Thank you so much Loish!!!

Anonymous

Keeping the sketch lines also helps to avoid this (?) https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=213838943039350 It was really funny to listen to you say twice "mini tutorial" while watching a 50-minute video. Not that is wasn't totally worth my time. Cause it was. I'm glad you decided to keep the full length video instead of trying to make it shorter but with less content. I always struggle to find time to watch long videos but when they are making good use of that time they are much more rewarding in the end.

Anonymous

Thank you Lois! As someone who gets stuck with anatomy details I have learned a lot from this video. It is absolutely true that doing slow anatomy studies is good but it doesn’t help to have fluid movement in my drawings. So they look anatomically correct but they lack that movement. Thank you for your great content. Love it.

Anonymous

So many things in this video have helped me a lot. Drawing the arms last is brilliant! I never would have thought of that!

Loish
>>38982640

haha yeah when i was done editing this i was like: nope, it's not a mini tutorial after all. glad you liked it!

Loish
>>38963501

thank you! in my case i try to trust my gut, yes - basically i draw something and then look at it, trying to assess whether it works. if it doesn't, i'll try something else. it's really just trial and error until i land on something that 'feels' right.

Loish
>>38958304

i lived in the USA from age 4-8 and after that i went to international schools where english was spoken!

Anonymous

Thank u for all this amazing tips! the thing about angles and muscles helps me a lot to understand some stuff I was missing. Thank u so much for share with us all this

Anonymous

Great tips, I love the point you made about drawing the arms last it worked well for me! Excited to see other videos you do Lois!

Anonymous

Thank you you are so inspiring. If you see this comment, can I ask how you got so popular on ig? Im a jewelry artist and have been for 15 years now, I would say my work is on the higher end but I can’t ever seem to get traction on it. Then I see you have been drawing the same amount of time but have 2 million followers to my 20k lol. Any tips?

Loish
>>39195276

hey julliet! glad you like it! as for the followers, I can't really say with certainty why I have the number of followers that I do. I'm just lucky to have them, but it's up to them in the end whether they want to follow me! I have been building an 'online following' since about 2003 when i started my deviantart account, and later shifted my focus to tumblr, before moving to instagram. so i think i've been very lucky to have followers that also make the jump from one platform to another. a general tip for anyone using social media is to not just show the finished product of what you make but also the process, snippets of inspiration, and glimpses into who you are and how you think! i hope this helps in some way.. oh and i think 20k is a lot of followers so congrats on that :)

Christina

Thank you for the awesome tutorial! I love your beak down and the simpler way of explaining things work great!

Anonymous

You are the best! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge! I’ve learned so much with this one video.

Anonymous

Thank you, really!!! It's a kind of magic for me you know) I learned a lot from here, keep doing your job. I'm very proud and happy to be your patron.

Anonymous

Very helpful!!! Some of the tips I never even thought about, I find that you're really good using the basic shapes to give the line of action and contrapposto on your characters really quickly. I tried it your way and it came out very stiff so what I used to fix it really quick was to do the bean shape, kind of ovals instead of the torso and hips and then I used your method on top, looked way better. Is hard for me to imagine so many poses this helped me a lot!

Loish
>>39533079

glad that helped! i feel like the more curved shapes you use, the more movement you'll get.

Anonymous

Amazing

sukka

you've been one of the biggest inspirations on my art ever since your deviantart era, and for me, it's always been this sense of freedom in your art. it always felt to me like you were constructing your own path with your own aesthetic, instead of following preset rules (but maybe letting those rules help you on your path?) and that inspired me to do the same with my own art! and listening to this, it really felt like my feelings have been correct, the way you talk about your method.. but also encourage others to find their own? it's wonderful and inspiring, and i love it! thank you for the video, as usual with everything you create, it inspired me a lot ❤ keep on being you!

Loish
>>42171352

thanks so much, that means a lot :) I'm glad my work had a positive influence on you!

Anonymous

THANK YOU so much for sharing this process - you have no idea how helpful it has been - I've done lots of practise and study of poses, anatomy, gesture, etc, but this video helped it all click together - thank you!

Anonymous

im spanish native speaker and i can undertand you perfectly sooo thanks for that :D

Anonymous

Thank you so so much for this tutorial. Explained simply and fast with very valuable information. I admire how fast can you sketch so beautiful characters. Wish I will be able do that once 😍

sandviart

I'm so glad that you are doing this tutorials, because they help me a lot!! I always have the problem to make my characters too many statics and I have never understood why. I will try all your tips. I am sure that the result will be very different and better. Thank you so much!!

Anonymous

I just ~have~ to say that simply hearing that you struggle with arm length & that you’re someone who ‘needs reference points’ is such a game changer for me. This kind of sharing really directly combats imposter syndrome. I had to pause the vid to say thank you soooo much!

Loish
>>46353586

happy to hear that! there are arists (like Kim Jung Gi) who can just draw faces/bodies line by line off the top of their head! i'm definitely not like that myself haha, i need to see it first and then adjust accordingly. thanks for your comment!

Duendeartist

This is the best tutorial about poses that I have ever seen! before it could take me even more than an hour to construct a pose but now is 10 minutes I'm able to to make a proper pose !! Thank you so so much!!!

Anonymous

Great! I just embarked on a „100 days of character sketches“ challenge, and this tutorial is giving me some very useful advice to put into practice right away :) Already feel less stressed out about the remaining 90 days, haha.

Loish
>>53395334

ohhh what a challenge! good luck! you will find your flow :)

Anonymous

Very good video, Thanks. No spanish subtitles :( . my english is not very good. anyway thanks for the tutorial

Loish
>>53479380

hey alex! so sorry about that. I currently only have the subtitles in english. if you want the .srt file to put it through a translator, just send me a DM!

Anonymous

Loved this tutorial, super helpful, will apply it to my simple sketches

Anonymous

this is a kick-ass tutorial!! <3 I`m new here and i can`t believe it took me so long to sign up to your patreon!! you`re the best! xxxx

Anonymous

Wow Loish!! I'm honestly mind-blown. This video was so wonderfully done. I felt really stuck on my creative journey, so I finally decided to learn from someone I have been looking up to for a while now. Signing up to your patron was a fantastic idea, I have learnt so much from this video. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!!

Anonymous

Thank you for the tips, simple shapes, energy and life and speed sketching

Anonymous

Hey Loish, this was such a great fundamental video. Really helped to fill in some very important holes in my knowledge and approach. Even though I am a professional character designer I still have so much to learn from you! So glad I signed up for your Patreon! :D

Loish
>>63006818

thanks so much for the support, it means a lot! I'm glad you enjoyed this video :)

Anonymous

I feel like I found a treasure chest😍😍 I'm so happy I decided to sign up here, all the love to you Loish for sharing these amazing tips🙌

Anonymous

So much great information packed in this tutorial. Thank you. I love your sense of shape and line quality...you make it seem so easy.

Anonymous

Hello Loish, thank you for the tutorial. I am trying to improve my figure drawing, something I'm struggling with a lot is the proportions of the figure, when i compare with the reference certain parts of the body are bigger than they should be. Any tips/ recommendations on how to improve this? thank you very much for any advice.

Loish
>>73268751

hey raquel! I'd say keep practicing and adjusting those proportions when you see errors! if you work digitally you can do that quite easily with the transform tool. but I do recommend only adjusting the bigger errors and not worrying too much about details!

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2023-06-13 05:42:03 Hey, Loish! Thanks so much for this! I'm trying to practice my sketching both digitally and physically, but I'm so painfully unconfident in my lines and keep erasing. I tried inking, so I couldn't do this, but I was terrified by the permanence of it. Seeing how you change proportions of, say, the head or sometimes even the angles of the body by using transform tools, I just wondered how you'd recommend tackling this in pencil sketches? Would you typically erase the head and start over? Thanks so much! &lt;3
2022-02-12 21:29:01 Hey, Loish! Thanks so much for this! I'm trying to practice my sketching both digitally and physically, but I'm so painfully unconfident in my lines and keep erasing. I tried inking, so I couldn't do this, but I was terrified by the permanence of it. Seeing how you change proportions of, say, the head or sometimes even the angles of the body by using transform tools, I just wondered how you'd recommend tackling this in pencil sketches? Would you typically erase the head and start over? Thanks so much! <3

Hey, Loish! Thanks so much for this! I'm trying to practice my sketching both digitally and physically, but I'm so painfully unconfident in my lines and keep erasing. I tried inking, so I couldn't do this, but I was terrified by the permanence of it. Seeing how you change proportions of, say, the head or sometimes even the angles of the body by using transform tools, I just wondered how you'd recommend tackling this in pencil sketches? Would you typically erase the head and start over? Thanks so much! <3

Anonymous
>>73268751

Aaah, and I've just seen you'd already answered quite a similar question to the one I just posted. Sorry!

Loish
>>77756824

hey! this definitely sounds relatable to me, I also hate 'permanent' lines and usually combat it by drawing really lightly at first. Sometimes I will indeed erase entire parts and start over. Here's a process video with me sketching so you can see how I approach it: https://www.patreon.com/posts/process-video-40448551

Anonymous

Hey, thank you SO MUCH for this class... Is there a way I can obtain it on google drive, please?

Loish
>>78830675

hey! unfortunately that's only an option for those who were supporting the patreon on the month it was posted. sorry about that!

Luna

I’m not able to access this :(

Loish
>>79880745

thanks for letting me know! it should work now - let me know if you can see it.

Luna
>>79880745

I’m able to see it now yay!! Thank you!

Anonymous

I had been following you since deviant art days and finally got your patreon because I’ve been trying to do digital painting and none of the other courses really helped. I need things simplified and for me your tutorials did that and I’m getting the hand of it easier than before you’re a great teacher so thank you 😊

Anonymous

Hi Loish! I know you get this a lot but I am a HUGE fan of yours. I look up to you a lot as a fellow artist. I'm new to your patreon but I absolutely love everything that I am seeing. Thank you so much for this amazing video and showing us a step by step process of what you're thinking about when creating. I learned a lot and am excited to see what else I can learn with you. :)