[PandaPops]

i ve been doing life drawing for the past year b4 that i dodnt know how to draw, but now im ok at drawing what i see. the big difficult is that when im drawing for my head i cant draw anything and im back to skeching out very crude stickmen. if u put my life drawing and stickmen together u wouldnt belive it was by the same person.

what am i doing wrong?

[James Bradford]

Try to apply the properties of life drawing to drawing from imagination. Block in form, outline, texture/shading. This will of course take a lot of practice but you will eventually rise up from the stickman. Play with shapes and composition for a while until you feel comfortable with that before proceeding to adding details.

Feng Zhu illustrates this in a section of his website, worth a look. http://64.246.38.49/artbyfeng/tut2_01.html

[eyewoo]

...and pay attention to the perspective of the human form. Perspective is often most associated with architectural or mechanical objects... but the human form, properly rendered is also under perspective's iron rules. When you are drawing from life, that perspective is built into what you are seeing and the relationships that exist between the individual forms and structions of the person being drawn... Not so from your head, so you have to not only understand how the human form is put together, but also how it exists in a real world of vanishing points - perspective.

[burn0ut]

when your life drawing, dont just draw what you see. you need to _analyze_ the figure. its too much for me to go into but take a look at vilppu's basic figure drawing book(s) www.vilppustudio.com