Description

Static poses can make your characters feel lifeless. This course teaches you how to infuse energy, movement, and drama into your artwork through dynamic posing techniques. You’ll explore the anatomy of movement and learn how to use gesture drawing and action lines to capture motion in a single frame. Whether illustrating a tense battle scene or a casual action moment, you’ll learn how to compose poses that communicate power, emotion, and story. The course also covers foreshortening, weight distribution, and balance, helping you create believable action shots from multiple angles. By the end, you’ll confidently depict scenes full of energy and flow, vital for anime, manga, and game art.

You'll learn how to:

• Break down complex movements into simplified poses
• Use gesture and line of action to convey dynamic motion
• Apply foreshortening and perspective to action scenes
• Balance anatomical accuracy with artistic exaggeration
• Compose impactful fight sequences and dramatic gestures