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Illustrate Expressive People fun with wonderful gestures lesson by Iva Mikles

Updated: Mar 7, 2022

So, I had learned another class of Iva Mikles and it about illustrating expressive people started from a stickman poses into expressive character.

And the first lesson was about the basic of human body and a tips for sketching poses.

The weight of the character is very important, if we sketch the character without thinking of the gravity the character will be floating and have no balance.


The "action line" are also important, to make a expressive posture.

We can draw the action line to guide the character movement and the way the character will go so it not too boring.


This exercise is about drawing a back of flour.

It helped when we didn't have any idea of expressing the emotion of the character.


So I use this method "the back of flour" for my own character too.

To express the sadness and happiness.



Next lessonnnnnn.

It about sketching each part of our body, the torso or the head or the hands and feet.


And I use the action line to sketch my stickman eiei.

And then I turn it into a woman character and color it in 2 different way

  1. A rough sketch color

  2. Normal coloring


Anddddddddddddd, after knowing the basic like action line or the stickman sketches.

Next I learned how to sketch more interesting pose like confident gesture.

The space between two feet and legs show how stable the character is.

And the way the hand rise up will show the confident and power of the charcter.

And the back soulden't bend.


And I had lecture the body type of human too.


But there are also more gesture and poses that show confident and power of the character too.

like the chin up pose and the cross one's arm pose too.

But the meaning of the cross one's arm pose are interesting cause it mean that this character didn't open to listen even it look like they listening.

And then I chose one poses that I like and color the sketch, and I saw the different coloring style of myself. It have a stylish vibe and cute at the same time lol.


14 June Drawing Shy Poses

Shy poses have the absolute different from the confident poses

The key of sketching these poses are...

  1. keep the space between the legs close, and keep the feet pointing at each other

  2. the hand gesture will look more reserved if you sketch a hugging pose

  3. Chin down but the eye still looking up slowly to see what's going on in the world



21 June

The elegance poses have a foot posture that are fascinating, by lining the foot in front of another.

And I can search for the Ballerina dancer reference pose or elegance catwalk poses.


24 June

Happy pose.

How to draw happy poses?

the main point?




27 June

What is the jumping pose?

The tip for drawing jumping pose.




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