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I've tried my best, but things don't seem to be going very well. Therefore, I hope I can improve through your tutorials. 

MSketches the Body and continued

When drawing bodies, the thing that's helped me the most is practice. I've been fortunate enough to be able to visit a figure drawing class where I draw with pencil on paper. There, we learn how to use our pencil to check proportions - you hold it vertically at arm length and then see how often the tip of the pencil fits in the torso, the legs... and then mark it on your paper, similarily to how it's done in the tutorial with the head as a reference point:It's very difficult for me to find techniques that work digitally for me, though. Here are two practice drawings of the same figure I did with the help of the XPPen tutorial:They are based on a 5min and a 3min digital pencil sketch. I laid down basic shapes first: An oval for the head, a body line, the shape of the pelvis and cylinders for the arms and legs. Then I went around the shapes while always looking at the reference to get proportions and the outline right. After 3 and 5mins respectively, I added colors. It's easier to do this in greyscale first to get the values right, but I wanted to experiment.I still have a long way to go but it's been fun!

My Entry for How to Draw Body Community Giveaway  of Artist 12 (3rd gen)A few words i would like to share, This is my first time drawing a full body and throughout my experience i have seen a lot of mistakes specially when i finished it. I would like to improve on how i see the body as shapes, not only as cylinders, circles and boxes but as a 3d simple shapes that makes the character alive. After watching the tutorial i have gained a better knowledge and understanding on how to draw a body simpler and better. Thank you so much for giving me and the rest of the artist an opportunity to join in this giveaway as well as to teach us on how to improve our fundamentals. This tutorial have helped me and will use it for future art. Thank you.(I dont have colored saved since i combine all of them in the end)SKETCHLINEARTFINISHED

Hello,My name is NekkooXD, I am a self learning artist and I would like to improve dynamic pose in body drawing, it's hard for me to draw dynamic poses because I do not have the basics about body drawing, at least that is what I think. Here is a fan art of a game that I was making before not continuing it because the more I drew the body, the more I got lost not knowing what to do.First, I am not making this post to say that self-learning is bad or anything like that. On the contrary, it is truly important to learn things on our own.But like with any subject, you should at least learn the right way, because it is very easy to get lost when you are learning by yourself. If you don't have a friend to learn with, you can at least watch tutorials. There are a lot of experts who share their expertise online for free. Even in real life, you just have to look for them to find and assimilate the knowledge they are sharing. It may be hard at first, but after a lot of effort, you will be able to see the difference.While it feels satisfying to learn things on our own, it is also important to learn them well. There are rules, and rules aren't meant to be broken right away; they are there to be followed so you don't get lost. Take music, for example: if you compose a song but just use anything you want, it ends up being inaudible. At least learn the basics, and then you can try to break those established rules to create your own style.If possible, do not hesitate to ask—not always for help, but also to ask questions. Like, "how does one approach perspective drawing?" for example. Some people may just imagine the angle, others might draw lines to follow, among many other methods I didn't mention.One of the best sources is obviously the XPPen Community Tutorials. At first, I didn't want to watch their tutorials because I had already watched a lot of videos before. But when I watched just one, it was really helpful. Their tutorials are among the best and clearest I have ever seen. They are precise, and I really like the fact that they actually focus on the basics that a lot of other tutorial videos ignore because they assume you already know them.This leads me to the last point. Do not hesitate to watch tutorials even if you have already watched a video about the topic before. It is really helpful to gather knowledge from various sources. Why? Because even if we all have our own methods of learning, we also know that when information comes from multiple sources, we tend to remember it better because it makes it more important—it has more impact.Think of it like this: when a friend presents a game you've never played or heard of, you may or may not be interested. However, when several of your friends present you with the same game over and over, sooner or later you will actually give it a try. It is the same with drawing—if not everything you will learn in life. The more you remind yourself of something over time, the longer that thing will stay in your head.Thank you very much for reading.#XPPenTutorialPractice

My drawing of Daki from Demon Slayer is my most ambitious drawing (for me) when I started to focus on dynamic poses (since most of the time, I draw characters just standing). I imagined her sitting on a roof of a house just being cunning but beautiful. When I imagined her, I mainly focused on the details of her hair, her clothes, but not on how she's sitting, how her hands should position, her feet, her neck, and so on. I think not planning all those details make her pose look stiff. Especially, from her neck to torso and legs. Like, when I was trying to finish the drawing, it took me some time to figure out how her body should position logically, but they still ended up look... flat? Her toes look flat, her neck, her eyes almost "eat" the whole space on her face, the position of her shoulders look wrong, and her knees looked misaligned based on how I positioned her feet. Those are the things that I wish I could improve on this drawing. And of course, for my future drawings as well (since I love to draw the whole body of the character that I choose most of the time). I don't want to make their pose look perfect, but I want to make it look logically possible next time. #XPPenTutorialPractice

I can draw somewhat generally accurate bodies, so what I want to improve is making them more gestural and dynamic for drawing my characters!! ヾ(^▽^*))) #XPPenTutorialPractice

This is my entry for the giveaway of Artist 12 (3rd gen)I want to improve the way i draw poses and facial expressionsSKETCHFLAT COLORRENDERED

I wish to improve my positioning of the head on the body.