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The way that I see things, the purpose of art is to illicit a response from the viewer. Typically when we draw characters we are trying to convey a feeling or an emotion. As visual and visceral creatures much of our perceptions of emotions are expressed through body language and tone.

I gave the following assignment to my student ~Gray-Mecha-Fox :
Choose one of the poses from the previous assignment and redraw it from 3 different "camera" angles.
1 with the "camera" in front and above the character looking down at them
2 with the camera directly in front of the character looking up at them
3 with the camera behind/ to the side and above the character looking down at a sharp angle.

I then wanted him to tell me what kind of "feeling" each new angle invokes when combined with the pose.

I did the assignment myself and opted to draw the pose from 6 angles. the bottom 3 are the required angles and the top 3 are viewing the figure straight on, at a 3/4 view and a profile view.

Note that in all 6 poses I've tried to keep the head about the same size and used that as the focal point for my camera.

I don't mind telling you though that about halfway through the first view I thought "why on earth did I pick THIS pose..." lol The assignment was harder than I expected and I was grateful that I was just using StickMan.

I challenge you to try this exercise out yourself. pick a static pose and draw it from 3 or more different angles. Play with camera heights as well, don't just spin your figure around a turn table

Description
The way that I see things, the purpose of art is to illicit a response from the viewer. Typically when we draw characters we are trying to convey a feeling or an emotion. As visual and visceral creatures much of our perceptions of emotions are expressed through body language and tone.

I gave the following assignment to my student ~Gray-Mecha-Fox :
Choose one of the poses from the previous assignment and redraw it from 3 different "camera" angles.
1 with the "camera" in front and above the character looking down at them
2 with the camera directly in front of the character looking up at them
3 with the camera behind/ to the side and above the character looking down at a sharp angle.

I then wanted him to tell me what kind of "feeling" each new angle invokes when combined with the pose.

I did the assignment myself and opted to draw the pose from 6 angles. the bottom 3 are the required angles and the top 3 are viewing the figure straight on, at a 3/4 view and a profile view.

Note that in all 6 poses I've tried to keep the head about the same size and used that as the focal point for my camera.

I don't mind telling you though that about halfway through the first view I thought "why on earth did I pick THIS pose..." lol The assignment was harder than I expected and I was grateful that I was just using StickMan.

I challenge you to try this exercise out yourself. pick a static pose and draw it from 3 or more different angles. Play with camera heights as well, don't just spin your figure around a turn table