6 Reasons to practice Drawing Poses.

Upcoming Art gym Workshop

I was almost 40 when I realised the importance of drawing poses. Slow learner.

Here’s why it’s so important.

1. Visual Storytelling: Understanding poses enables you to communicate emotions and actions in drawings.

2. Believability: Learning how to draw various poses helps to create characters that move and interact in realistic and convincing ways, adding depth to the artwork.

3. Observation Skills: Focusing on poses can sharpen our observational skills as artists, helping us to notice subtle details in how people express themselves through body language.

4. Versatility: Mastery of drawing different poses allows artists to tackle a range of subjects and scenes, from dynamic action sequences to quiet, emotional moments.

5. Anatomy: Understanding poses involves a grasp of basic anatomy, which can improve storytelling when drawing human or animal characters.

6. Setting the scene: Engaging and believable poses allow the character to exist within complex compositions and to interact with other characters.

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Katie Stack

and

Adam Ming

present,

POSES: A NEW ART GYM WORKSHOP, LIVE on Zoom!

Drawing poses is a great way to bring energy onto the page, and in this workshop we’re to going to share the easiest way we’ve discovered to draw great poses of people doing virtually anything even if you’re an absolute beginner.

We’ll also go a little bit into the topic of building characters.

WORKSHOP Breakdown!

Art gym is schedule for an hour, but the optional cooldown may go on for another 10 minutes or so.

Art Gym Begins with

a fun warm-up, followed by a

2-minute demo, before we jump into

training together with references for 7-8 sets, followed by

a strong finisher.

then cool down by sharing our drawings and what we took away from the session.

It’s fun and social workout where pros and beginners train side by side and learn from each other!

Printable:

Download and print up to 8 copies of this for the workshop, this optional worksheet will speed up your work. You can do the workshop without it but using it is a fun way for all of us to be on the same page!

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You can join Art Gym LIVE! Or watch a recording, both are available to paid subscribers of either Katie or Adam.

Art Gym News

When Katie and I started thinking about ART GYM at the start of 2024, we decided to do 6 workshops, and see how it goes.

And it’s going well! Each workshop feels like it’s better than the last, it’s more fun for us and our fellow GYM mates tell us they are loving it too. So we’ve decided to Make ART GYM it’s own Substack and keep going after June. (More soon)

Here’s an offer, if you are an active annual subscriber of this substack or

Katie’s Newsletter

through June 30th you will get an additional free 6-month subscription to the new ArtGYM substack featuring 6 new workshops for FREE!

Subscribe now to sign up for this month’s workshop and consider getting that annual subscription.

Art gym is a group workout for your creative practice! By meeting together we provide each other accountability to start and finish practice sessions that level up your skills. Lets level up our drawing skills together at Art Gym!

I forgot to hit record in the last Art Gym! So I rerecorded a demo video, you can find that and the slides here: