Yes, DA was the first site I started uploading things to, back in 2008. Since then I moved to tumblr, twitter, instagram, facebook (of course), drawcrowd, artstation... and a couple of forums. But slowly went diching everything except facebook and deviantart. And even in here I deleted my old acount and started from scratch. Too many disaster pieces haha. Tumblr I love, but It's sooooo easy to end up browsing for ours I had to delete my bookmark because of how much time I spend on there...
About the study techniques, I have been taking art seriously for almost 8 years now, and seeing my current level, I don't think you should follow my advice, because I am definately doing something wrong... However, I started by coping Dragon Ball characters when I was a kid, and never got interesting in backgrounds, so most of my study growing up was focused on characters. When I started art school, we mostly drew statues, like Michelangelos David, the Discobolus, some madonnas... and then moved into live modeling lessons, wich I think are one of the most effective forms of practise for realistic anatomy. However, if you want to get interesting poses, I think gesture is much more important than getting anatomy right. So everyday I do a 5 minute warm up with gesture pictures. 30 second sketches, to focus on the "flow" and movement of the body rather on details. I'll leave you some links at the bottom. But if you can't go to live modeling sessions, feel unconfortable around nude bodies or just prefer a fully "on my own" learning experience, I would study the hell out of Loomis or Vilppu. Also, some excercised I do often, is to get some pics from mma figters, get some anatomy guide, and trace the muscles over the pictures with the help of the anatomy guide. Another one, draw four dots at random positions, and then try and draw a figure whose hand and feet are placet at the dots. Or another one I got from a spiderman artist (dont remember who...) is to draw an interesting shape, and then try and fit a character inside, like if it wat a torsion artist.
Yes, so many people its hard to follow.. I did watched your last three videos though, and congrats on winning the kameha contest!! I actually worte you a reply there, but when I hit publish, the forum or my inernet crashed and did not get posted D: I thik the final video we are supose to post it's gonna be a decisive element. Because for him it has to be as hard as for us to follow that many people... That's why I think the ones that posted more videos have the better chances. I already started to think of a top 10 winners, and you are definately in there. And quite up I must say.
Heres some links:
Here's what I use to my gesture drawing warmups:
reference.sketchdaily.net/en/artists.pixelovely.com/practic…www.quickposes.com/ (this one is a bit sexist, ence I use it the least)
www.posemaniacs.com/All Andrew Loomis's books:
alexhays.com/loomis/VIlppu's drawing manual
drive.google.com/folderview?id…this guy has a youtube channel, although its a bit messy:
www.youtube.com/user/glennvv/f…Oh¡ and forgot about Stan Prokopenko! He's a great teacher and has a couple videos on Loomis and Vilpu, in case you find manuals too boring. Also, his anatomy exercises are very good.
www.youtube.com/channel/UClM2L…Hope this helped!