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Oyindamola Adeniyi
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I finally got around understanding the chapter. Are my proportions correct here?
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Nice study! I think the hip is a bit too small in relationship to upper torso.
Ralph
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it is hard to tell without having the original picture you used next to it but just looking at your drawing I would claim that your shoulders might be a bit broad and the whole torso area seems a bit long. The bottom seems to be a bit small in comparison and the legs seem very thin (allthough those are only hinted add and obviously were not the main focus). Again though, this it just what it looks like to me. Neither am I a great artist nor do I have perfect memory of the reference picture you used. Since it has been a while since you commented, maybe take another look? With some time between the creation and evaluation of a piece you see it with completely fresh eyes.
Oyindamola Adeniyi
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URGENT. I've spent weeks watching this video over and again to get some meaning out of it but I don't understand. Could someone please help me. I don't understand anything about these landmarks. What is their purpose? How do I memorize them? How do I apply them? I have so many questions but it's hard to express because I don't even understand what I just watched. Please help.
Thomas already gave a pretty good answer, but I wanted to add, that these points are bone structures you can see on the body. The advantage of that is, that unlike muscles and fat, these landmarks do not stretch or change depending on the pose and are therefor good reference points. If you lift an arm for example, the muscles and fat between make the shape of the arm look different, but the elbow will always be the same distance from the wrist or the shoulder, because the bones connecting them do not bend or change.
The parts of the skeleton where muscles are attached can also be identified using these landmarks and once you understand how these muscles stretch and contract you can "calculate" what they should look like, once you know the landmarks.
So basically you identify points on the body that do not deform or change drastically and then you fill in the "blanks" between those points.
My understanding is, they are bony protrusions (hard points) that are fairly stable. I think of them sometimes as anchor points.
Perhaps I need a "resting place" for my line that indicates the hip angle, I have the two bony parts of the asis for reference to find this.
Or to find the angle of the shoulders, I know the clavicle hinges around the middle of the neck and I have the acromian process to follow and base a line on.
Having these "anchoring angles" and center-line, I can then have a go at building my form using the other landmarks as references. Hope this helps.
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An update on the Structure assignment I tried some months ago. Kindly critique.
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Hello. Please help me out with critiques.
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@Oyindamola Adeniyi I think these are looking good! The same recommendations I made on your gesture sketches apply here too: getting more mileage and loosening up. If you need help with any other thing specific, just let me know. Keep it up!
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Nice work, @Oyindamola Adeniyi! The drawings look very simple and clear. One thing I notice is that the lines feels a little bit tense overall, which is okay and even expected if you are still beginning your studies. For the sake of practice, just see if it's possible to do a lot more of these quick sketches - once you've grasped the concept of gesture, it's really just about getting more mileage. But try not to rush - face it as a long-term learning process. If you do a few minutes of this practice regularly, you'll probably notice a lot of difference already just over a few weeks and months. Don't worry too much about the linework quality, just make sure the figures are clear (aren't confusing) and try to relax and loosen up in the process. Try to push the exaggeration some more as you feel more comfortable. Also, you could even draw in smaller sizes so you could fit like 8 or 10 quick sketches in one same page. Hope this helps. Happy studies!
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Hello again. I've been practicing on making my beans more loose and drawing with my whole arm. Thoughts?
I tried to post these as a reply to my previous post but the text keeps disappearing so here I go again. I'd love to get some critiques on these. I'll post the references in the reply right below.
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Hi everyone! I practiced drawing a few animals in broken down basic shapes. I hope I got the assignment correctly. If I did, I attached the reference photos just in case. Was wondering how I did.
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@Oyindamola Adeniyi Good effort! But, for this exercise, we're supposed to break down the structure of the animals using 3D forms (spheres, cylinders and boxes). The shapes you used in your drawings feel too much 2D, so try thinking the forms a bit more in terms of volume and depth. Using cross-contours should definitely help, but make sure as much as possible your brain is indeed visualizing things in "3D" on the page, more as if you were actually sculpting or modeling a solid object. Here's a quick example of how I'd do it, hope this helps.