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An artist Josh Phillips ) sent me his character for my thoughts on her. I sent back these notes on how he could push her pose and get a greater sense of weight. Its inspired me to create some new lessons on Taught By A Pro for "Drawing and Posing Attractive Women". Coming soon! Interested?
PS, Please don't send me your drawings/portfolios to review, I don't normally have time to do this. This was a special situation. Thanks for understanding.
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This is a huge help! It's really kind of you to help younger artists.
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Doing great work pointing stuff out for young artists.
Was very nice of you to take your time to do that.
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super helpful! weight is def one of the trickiest things for me to find! possibly the worst is size proportions of various characters though, when they stand by one another. Is there a helpful trick you use to make sure you get them all proportioned correctly? I find that i tend to get a few ok, then the last ones feet will be way down the page bc his head was to big or whatnot. Any thoughts or tips?
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Its always hard to do a line up of characters on the same sheet of paper and get them to all stand right/look right next to each other. The key, I think, is to sketch them lightly, quickly in rough shapes, top to bottom, then start adding the details. This way, you get the basics down and can make sure the proportions are there before going to town on the details.
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yea that make much more sense... hahaha i get excited and start drawing heavy too soon normally. sometimes its hard to slow down, but i'll have to practice that more. 
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A great lesson, specially to describe the rythm of the curves and the weight distribution.
By the way, that book (your first one) is really great, I almost finish to read it, hope I can use those lessons soon...
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Thanks and I'm glad my first book has been helpful to you!
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hat was close!! I alsmost sent you some art to review. Also great points there, good lesson.
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Great idea about the lessons;I might lead to ask for some
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Where do you think 'unattractive' women (or men) stand in animation? I know animation is all about exaggeration, but there must be a way of drawing an interesting women who is neither attractive nor grossly unattractive? How does one portray the average woman (who may not be beautiful, have big hips and curves, etc)? I feel it's an important question because of the problems with how women's bodies are generally represented and idealised in the media.
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I don't think curves are unattractive by any means. If you're looking for a big debate, you won't get it here. I agree with you that there are all different kinds of "attractive" shapes on women and men. I may tend to draw a certain version of an "attractive" shape, but I like all kinds and need to draw all kinds from time to time.
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I mean that curves and big hips are attractive, and that they're fun to draw, but I would like to know how to draw women who may be more 'straight down' or conventionally attractive without them just looking boring. I'm not looking for debate, I am just interested to know how I could portray people who don't have those stereotypically feminine features that are so common in animated characters. I need to draw not-beautiful characters too.
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I think you nailed the upper body in that lesson, but think the hips could be a tad wider imo
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This is useful! I really struggle with "pushing" poses.
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