If you get this question a lot please just ignore me, but besides your amazing use of colours I am always so impressed with your poses and anatomy in general! Even looking at your older art, it was always something you excelled at. So I was wondering, did you ever specifically practice these things and if so, could you share with us how?

Thank you a lot, anon! To answer your question, I’ve always tended to focus more on anatomical aspect of the drawing( maybe at the expense of other aspects), which I’ve been studying by using books, by drawing my parents/ myself while looking in the mirror, and by studying various photos from the internet. I haven’t paid much attention to gestures and neglected doing them until last year, which I deeply regret now: nothing improves your grasp of proportions and helps you with drawing good poses better than practicing gestures. I also recently started attending life drawing classes, which turned out to be very different from drawing gestures using photos, and I am also taking an anatomy course right now( we’re still on the skull part). And that’s pretty much it.

Here’s a list of material I’ve been using and found to be the most helpful: Gottfrid Bammes, George B. Bridgman,  Villpu( books and videos), Zarins Uldis, Kondrats Sandis - Anatomy for Sculptors, Michael Hampton – Figure Drawing, Eliot Goldfinger – Human Anatomy for Artists, Alberto Lolli - Struttura Uomo ( and a lot of anatomy books and videos in Russian, sorry, but none of them is translated :C)