hey, first of all i ADORE your art i think it looks fantastic! do you mind sharing how you get inspiration for poses or just… things to draw? i always end up drawing my characters in the same poses with the same expressions simply because i cant come up with cool ideas. thanks a lot x :-)
why thank you, kind and mysterious stranger! i’m glad you like my stuff.
as for being inspired… well, honestly most of the time i feel the same way, like i’m sort of always doing the same poses and expressions… especially in the case of expressions, but that’s mostly because i don’t like to draw unhappy characters. BUT! i get a lot of poses from old timey silent movies (especially in the case of my spongemusical drawings)
silent films have a sweetly romantic way of framing the actors together that i like to try and copy when i draw shipping art. then there’s stock photo resources like senshistock which i really like…
they have a ton of pose resources and a bunch of pretty cute couple ones. i don’t always copy exactly some of the poses i get from photos because of course sometimes they don’t suit the characters, so in this you can see how i altered beast boy and cyborg from the models, however without having this photo to help me i would have had a much harder time creating the drawing.
i also like to look at a lot of photos of models on clothing websites, since a lot of the time my drawings are usually ‘a cute outfit i saw i wanted to draw a fictional fave in’, so i use them to help me draw bodies in the clearest possible poses to show off clothes without them looking too dull and static, right now the ASOS site is my favourite because their models pose quite dynamically. i also like to sometimes screenshot movies and tv that i’m watching on my laptop to if i see a particularly nice way that characters are interacting with each other.
anyway, that’s how i do it!!! though i’ll admit i do also make some of the poses i draw characters in up, that’s because i’ve looked at enough reference pics in the past in order to draw that i can kind of figure out how bodies work or would fit around each other from memory.
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