Hugging
There are several poses that I always struggle with. As I reminded myself to my great annoyance the one I keep having trouble with is hugging. I don’t know whether its the two or more figures interacting, getting the foreshortening right as the arm wraps around an object, or if it’s the four limbs going in as many directions, it’s a hard image to visualize and execute properly and I’ve wasted a whole lot of paper by only getting it right on the fourth try. Fortunately it’s the more exotic variations that give me the most trouble. Passive romantic “cuddling” is relatively doable. But it’s poses like the one I’m struggling with now. A scene that involves an enthusiastic but completely platonic best friends hug that caught one of the huggees completely by surprise (a variation of what anime fans like to call a “glomp”) Frequently I spend more time trying to find the visual reference than drawing the actual picture.
