So you want to get GAINS? Try this!

Timed Figure Drawing Practice

Your ABC homework every week is to draw from one of the provided references. You must draw from at least one of the official ABC refs for your submission.

However, you may also want to challenge yourself to do some timed gesture studies each week, to add mileage to your progress and really get those gains! Making a practice of doing short gesture studies will pay off in the long run.

It’s also a great low-pressure way to ‘warm up’ your drawing muscles. Try it and see how much a 5-10+ min warm up makes an effect on your drawing session.

If you do figure studies from outside the ABC refs, you can share them in the discord, in the #abc-wips-n-feedback channel. Show off and discuss them with your ABC peers! Do NOT submit them to the #abc-submissions channel. Only works based on official ABC refs will be accepted as submissions for the twitch showcase.

Online resources for timed figure drawing

• Line of Action (NSFW | SFW option)
  • choose clothing or nude, gender (including nonbinary), or draw hands and feet, faces, and even animals!
  • choose class mode (increasing time intervals) or just one time interval.
• Quick Poses (Usagi’s favorite) (NSFW | SFW option)
  • Quick Poses timed practice (can choose clothed or unclothed, male or female, time interval, etc)
  • Quick Poses Random Gestures - random poses without a time limit
• SketchDaily (NSFW | SFW option)
  • option to choose only clothed models
  • choose humans, animals, etc.
  • Timed practice (choose your interval)
• AdorkaStock - Free pose library (i believe its all SFW?)
  • timed gesture sketching
• PoseManiacs (SFW)
  • 3D models, not real people
  • timed drawing (choose interval, sex, difficulty)
• Youtube Playlist: Timed Figure Poses (Nude) by New Masters Academy (NSFW)
• Youtube Playlist: Friday Evening Figure Drawing #FEFDRAW by Draw This! (SFW)