/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3585381
>fluid gestures and poses
exactly that, you study gesture and poses, which is among the most difficult things in drawing when you're first starting out. there is an actual grammar that connects the visual world to all the other aspects of life. energy, weight, emotion, and so forth.

>draw something from memory without making it look stiff
once you understand gesture and you know the anatomy it's a few steps short of making a toy puppet dance the way you want it. the real difficulty comes when you add more layers of action in rendering, style, poetic devices, symbolism, and so on.