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Hello Michael, it is really a pleasure for me to have enrolled in this course. I have been following your methodologies for figure drawing for years now and I found them extremely effective. In any case, there is one aspect of your method I am not sure I can really grasp, either from your original book or within your current course. It seems to me that the list of steps you use for building anatomy out of gesture does not follow a strict order. In some cases you first start adding directions and tilts to your gesture, then you create cylinders and boxes with perspectives, you assess the proportions of the volumes through landmarks. At that point, you superimpose more realistic volumes on the basic ones, and ultimately you refine the anatomy. In this video you seem to do something slightly different. You first create some anatomical "drafts" on your gesture, then you add landmarks on your construction and use the basic volumes to assess the perspective. If you have nailed the perspective, you keep refining the anatomy. Would it make sense to claim that the list of points do not really follow an order and changes in relation to your level of expertise? Many thanks. Dewey
Michael Hampton
Hi, To answer your question, no, I don't think it necessary that you follow a strict order every time. I guess I'm not really seeing the anatomical "drafts" included in the gesture which you're referring to. At least in my mind, these lessons track with my consistent workflow. While, I'm not opposed to these types of variations to an approach I don't remember it being conscious lol. In any event, you're super perceptive! Good for you for noticing such subtlety. Very impressive :)
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