Posematics!

While browsing ConceptArt.org sketchbooks, I came across mention of 'Posematics' and lots of cool animation style pose drawings. Quick google later lead me to this website. It's actually really cool. Usually when you go to life drawing classes, there's a fast drawing warm up exercise where each pose only lasts 30 seconds or a minute or so. The idea is to get you to draw quick 'gesture' lines and get you to stop thinking too much and be more confident about making marks on paper. Thanks to posematics, I can now do this without asking a model to get naked and jump around the room in silly positions : D

It's good practice, and I got through half a sketch book last night. I'm only uploading a couple now though, as the real reason to do these is that when you slow down and take a little longer over a drawing you hopefully retain the nice fluid gestures, but actually get everything in the right place and can get some nice results.

*EDIT* The website is actually called 'posemaniacs' and can be found here. I'm leaving the above text though as it is as I'm currently the top hit on google for posematics and that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside : )

These are all venitian red derwent drawing pencil on quite thin refill pad paper.