Kimi
UK
Hi! Currently doing: Anatomy of the Human Body, Figure Drawing Fundamentals
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Kimi
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added comment inHow to Simplify the Motion of the Torso – The Bean
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Kimi
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Hi @Kimi, nice studies! The corrections you did look really good. I think they amped up the realism with better proportions, and a stronger sense of form and gesture.
- I did a paintover with some suggestions.
- I would encourage you to draw some poses of these muscles from imagination and post those drawings in your reply. Drawing from imagination is a good way to check and improve your understanding of the anatomy. For example, the two ovoid forms of the erector spinae feel a tiny bit like they're floating, not clearly anchoring to the pelvis and the top left drawing in image 2, shows some uncertainty in how the latissimus inserts into the humerus.
- I looked through your album and your instagram posts; nice illustrations!
To take you drawings to the next level I think you benefit from revisiting some of the exercises in the Figure Drawing Fundamentals course. Particularly the gesture quicksketch exercise. You seem to have a pretty good understanding of form, but the gesture feels weaker.
Improving the gesture in your figure drawings will also improve the shape design in the characters you're drawing I think. You can use your understanding of gesture, to create a flow between the shapes you draw. Check out Vixiearts on instagram for example https://www.instagram.com/vixiearts/. You seem to be working in a similar style. Notice how the compositions have a very nice flow. It might be a bit too "flowy" for your taste, but a dose of that flow could really improve your work I think.
If you feel like revisiting gesture is a good idea, feel free to post some gesture quicksketches and tag me @Jesper Axelsson in that post.
Hope this helps :) Keep up the good work!
Kimi
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Hi @Kimi, really nice studies!
- In the top row drawings, did you start by first sketching in the major form of the obliques, before adding the digits? I feel like it got a little lost in the detail. When adding details, such as digits, try to use them to clarify to major forms.
- You've drawn a bump at the outside bottom corner of the pecs that I don't recognize. Is it the lower digit of the abdominal portion? If so, I think what makes it look strange is that it is overlapping the part above it. I think it should be overlapped by it.
Hope this helps :) Keep up the good work!
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Nice!
One thing that helped me attach the obliques correctly to the ribcage was to memorize a line running through all the origin-points. I attached an image from another critique that shows this line.
Hope this helps :)
Kimi
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Second attempt after watching assignment examples and critique (I'll post these at the same time next time)
Kimi
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Pecs after watching the assignment examples, I'd appreciate feedback on the cross contours.
Redline after watching the assignment examples and critique. Practising them again helped so much. I'd appreciate any feedback as well.
Kimi
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Assignment drawings for the ribcage. Left picture is my first attempt at the exercise, and right picture is a redraw after watching the assignment videos and critique. I'd love any feedback!
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Hi @Kimi Great job! I think these look really nice overall!
- Watch out for making parallell lines diverge instead of converging, especially the imaginative line between the corners of the 10th ribs.
- I think your ribcage drawings on the second page were very sucessful! They seem accurate and feel solid and 3D. One thing I noticed was that the crosscontours on the drawing in the top left corner don´t seem to be correct. I attached a paintover with two alternatives: crosscontours when thinking of the ribcage as a cylinder, crosscontours indicating the ribs.
- In some of your drawings it doesn´t feel like the spine is following the arc of the ribcage, like the bottom left in your second image. I would suggest doing a few only-ribcage drawings like the ones on your second page but with the thoracic part of the spine aswell. Being able to accuratly place the spine in the ribcage is a huge help when trying to give the whole spine the right curvature. Note that the thoracic portion of the spine, follows the arc of the ribcage, therefore the ellipse crosscontour will change angle. Start with getting the top and bottom cap right, then add a few crosscontours inbetween
I hope this helps :)
I feel like the ones on the left are better, mostly because you focused on the whole torso, but both drawings have issues with the proportion and shape of the ribcage in general I made an overdraw, without the reference is hard to really know what it should look like, but from your own pose I would say is the most accurate I can get. The main issue is that you are not drawing the whole spine, you need to draw it as if you had x-ray vision, that way you can tell if the perspective and proportions are correct.
