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I have a problem with picking or identifying emotions or scenes that I want to portray so most of my art ends up being in this horrible vegetative state where nothing is expressed, there is no movement, no anticipation and no interesting composition. Everything forms and returns to the void like some sort of a cheap joke.

Please help me figure out a way to cheat around it?

>> No.6657296

hmm, do you have more art to post as an example? do you only have problems with facial expressions or are your body postures just as stiff and rigid?

>> No.6657297
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>>6657296
every time i try to draw literally any living being, it just seems so bland and uninspired. My composition sucks, my posing sucks and I don't care anymore I just want a way around it.
I don't have any recent art but these should be a good example.

>> No.6657303
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I'm decent technically, but somewhere along the way the character dynamic and 3D space is lost.
Every time I draw something my muscle memory somehow makes it the most static thing in existence - look at that skeleton.
pic from a multiplayer drawing session.

>> No.6657322

>>6657282
>>6657297
>>6657303
draw a comic bro. if you're no good at stories, then adapt a fairy tale, like Disney did

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>>6657322
ehhh, I guess I should do that. Maybe I could redo the sleeping beauty or red hood but happening in africa with black people, for clout.
But seriously, how do I pose a character? They always seem to be so stiff as fuck, do i just have a bad taste?

>> No.6657331

>draws skeletons and retarded lizard demons
>hutrrrr why are they lacking in emotion durrrr
draw people, retard

>> No.6657336

>>6657328
>But seriously, how do I pose a character? They always seem to be so stiff as fuck, do i just have a bad taste?
gesture drawing. gobs and gobs of it

>> No.6657343

>>6657336
whats that

>> No.6657352

>>6657343
https://youtu.be/GNfe_ypQG9w

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>>6657352
alright, thanks for that, I guess I could test me some gesture drawing. You'll probably see me later blogpissing in /beg/ if I have any succes with that

>> No.6657823

>>6657343
I recommend Gesture Drawing For Animation by Walt Stanchfield and FORCE: Dynamic Life Drawing For Animators by Michael Mattesi.

Gesture isn't just a particular method, it is a mode of thinking that requires you to think in terms of storytelling, cause and effect, physics, weight and force. Animators are by far the best people to learn gesture from, because they live and die by it.