Learning how to draw figures (especially human’s because I am interested in drawing comics one day). However, it seems quite hard to make the picture “look right”. Blindly following the 1:7 theory, I still don’t know whether the body porpotions are correct after changing a lot!
And most importantly, despite the butt which I may should make it smaller since the leg is facing front, the face (head) just doesn’t look right! I did it following the so called luimn method or similar to draw the head (ball + mask) but even after redrawing eyes, nose, cheeks several times, it still looks strange!
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Michelist
Sorry, would be careful next time.
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I wonder how to sketch head with a somehow bottom up view. Tried but looks weird – face in the correct direction but jaw (the overall head) just doesn’t look right, body is even worse (I think the porpotion doesn’t have big issues) since it is still facing the front instead of the upper left! Overall, it looks like a strong but strange guy standing still facing the upper left corner instead of standing still with the camera placed near his feet looking up.
Still wondering how to tackle this.
Well, I changed the chest a bit to make it seemingly more “left”.
The usual way? So using references, tutorials and practice, practice, practice. References can be found a lot on the net as well as tutorials.
References galore can be found in thist post:
Michelist
Thanks.
Of course the “usual way” – I am not a quick-mastering-in-20-minute fan!
Gonna check the list later, very helpful:)
In your first drawing, your figure is in perspective… and perspective is sometimes difficult to deal with, especially at the beginning. And even using references and doing it as similar as possible, we think the pose is wrong. At least that’s what happens to me…
Maybe it will work if you use references with perspective to practice, but with a lighter perspective, not so distorted, not so radical.
Something that has been working for me is spending more time on the construction, on the sketch. Even if it’s necessary to redo it two or three times, I see that it tends to come out much better than the first time. There’s a feature in Krita that helps a lot with this part, see here.
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Wow, quite clever usage of Groups!
I appreciate your views and yes, I should start from something simpler when it comes to perspective – currently I could only well handle bottles or boxes when it comes to a special view point (without real ref or pic by hand). I don’t even know how to draw my dog well, no matter say human figures!
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I am now experienmenting with a single and simpler direction (slightly to the left – in the readers’ perspective).
perspectives are indeed tricky because seemingly we have to not only decide where something is (easy when thinking 7:1 plain but hard when the paper turns or even harder when body is twisted or doing strange poses which may be difficult for me to do it in front of a mirror myself.) but also how big something is.
Personally, I am not pursuing a realistic drawing style (as said, I am interested in manga), but sometimes it just have to look “right” – All in all, just tell a story in words might be better than telling it in match-man arts! Haha.
Here is a video about “Twelve Serious Drawing Mistakes”. It is narrated in Brazilian Portuguese, but there are subtitles available. The first mistake is related to its difficulty.
I still make this mistake, especially when I use references: I end up “forgetting” what I learned in drawing school and just start drawing. 
When I draw without references, I do it differently: I usually draw a geometric figure… and then detail it.
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Nice talk.
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Trying out shadowing.
It is quite convinient for krita to change opacity for shadowing layers.
Not nice of course but more vivid than plain though:)
Used 17 layers, sadly found out the forum doesn’t allow .kra files to be uploaded! As I think there would be more difference in .kra files than final picture file between a newcomer like me and some experienced digital artist.
At the moment, it seems that you mainly need to practice your hands and arms to make them match the representation of the body you have drawn, a neck like this is not impossible and could have been wanted. Then you should move forward and improve your overall skills, climbing the ladder step by step. If you are willing to practice, you will get better automatically, often without realizing it, or at least not until you compare your recent work with that of a year or two ago.
Carry on, you are on your way.
Michelist
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more shadowing
This picture is SFW of course but since my main goal in drawing this is still to get better on human figure porpotions – like the hands and lens
So I regard this to stay in the sketch book of same topic instead of complying to all the tags.However, This thread is still NSFW – I might post pictures including naked human body at any time. So don’t click the picture at work anyway
Sometimes, honestly speaking, certain part of the body can still look nice even not realisticly put or scaled – like the eyes in cartoon characters, but it is important to obey consistence – that is, when drawing manga or similar stuff, the same character unavoidably shows up in different poses, then it would be important that readers would not feel strange when porpotions change from frame to frame
imagine a character unintendedly have its leg and neck length as well as hand size varying! 
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