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>>4169353
"Dynamic foreshortened pose" on Bing images (Google images is ass). First of all, understand why it even looks that way: Spiderman is basically about to slap you in the face, he's very close to the viewer. So his left arm looks elongated relative to his body. On most of those timed pose-drawing websites, you don't get super dynamic, foreshortened poses like that. You might get dynamic but not extremely foreshortened. Poses like this are harder to find in general because most people want a selfie or group photo, they don't want their hand all up in the camera.

So you have to learn how to find images like this. DeviantArt is saturated with years of stock images, many of them intentionally dynamic to meet artist demand. Also search engines as mentioned. Shutterstock and other stock image sites have lots of goofy distorted photos (key words "fisheye" or "foreshortened." Other key words: dynamic, fisheye, distorted, coming toward/pointed at camera. Also check out Hyper Angle.

And take the time to break down and understand a difficult or new pose. 30 seconds is "feel it out" territory and is not enough to make careful observations. Art growth is all about observation and memorization. So try doing it from imagination afterward.

A warning though, these are some of the toughest poses to do convincingly. It's going to be frustrating without a solid base of anatomy and perspective knowledge. Go ahead and try a tough pose, but don't forget about the simpler fundamental stuff too.