Sketching Dynamic Action Poses in Photoshop

Throughout the duration of this tutorial we'll be sketching six different action poses and we'll spend a couple of lessons sketching and breaking down each pose to bring it to life.

For each action pose we'll begin by visualizing any story-telling elements that might be associated with the action taking place. From there we'll focus on sketching in lines of action to establish movement and fluidity with the form. Follow this we'll block in simple shapes to nail down the final pose.

Once we've sketched our rough pose we'll begin to sketch in additional details to build up the form and add volume. Along the way we'll discuss how we can take these additional details to push the action of the pose even further.

By exploring how we can break down and sketch these action poses, you'll be able to explore sketching your own action poses with more confidence while having a lot of fun.


Lessons in this tutorial
1. Introduction and project overview (01:04)
2. Sketching an action pose involving a weapon (11:14)
3. Adding form and volume to our weapon pose (15:04)
4. Sketching a running pose (10:16)
5. Adding form and volume to our running pose (15:39)
6. Sketching a kicking pose (08:48)
7. Adding form and volume to our kicking pose (13:23)
8. Sketching a falling pose (08:34)
9. Adding form and volume to our falling pose (10:07)
10. Sketching a punching pose (08:44)
11. Adding form and volume to our punching pose (12:32)
12. Sketching our final action pose (09:30)
13. Adding form and volume to our final action pose (14:24)