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@xander
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3yr
added comment inBlending and Lost Edges (Painterly)
I enjoyed these lessons and learned a lot. Here's my assignment. Any feedback is appreciated.
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Here's my attempt, any feedback is much appreciated.
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3yr
Hi @xander, nice studies! Well simplified and nice flow!
I'll do my best to help you further:
-In #2 you have the foot going from wide at the heel and talus, to narrow in the front. Usually it's the opposite; the foot is narrower in the back and wider in the front. I'm a huge Tarzan fan 🤩🤪 and if you look at Tarzan's feet in the Disney movie, you can see this clearly exaggerated .
-In #4 the foot is twisting; we see the outside of the heel, but the inside of the toes. You're showing the medial plane of the toes, but remember that when we do that we no longer see the lateral side.
- Just a thought:
I looked through your album to see if I could give some macro guidance rather than just some anatomy tips. I noticed that you haven't posted any of the assignments from the Figure Drawing Fundamentals course. Have you taken it? (or anything equivalent to it?) If not, I strongly recommend waiting with the anatomy course. The things taught in the figure drawing course, like gesture and 3D-forms, are crucial for being able to execute the exercises in the anatomy course well. You could think of it as the Anatomy 1 course.
Here´s a little story from my life:
A few years ago I dreamed of being able to draw Tarzan. The Disney movie had been my favorite since I was a baby. I really wanted to learn anatomy, I found proko´s course, and started taking it, but I soon felt that something was lacking: I didn't know the fundamentals well enough.
It was difficult to realize that, because it felt like my goal of being able to draw Tarzan was miles away, but I decided to take the figure drawing course anyway. I´m so glad I did! It gave me exactly what I wanted!; being able to draw gestural 3-dimensional figures, from imagination. I learned the most important part of drawing Tarzan!
And to my suprise my figures felt quite accurate eventhough I didn´t know anatomy. It was like I had learned the pattern of the human body. I realized that rather than thinking of the figure drawing course being a obstacle in front of the anatomy course, it is more like the Anatomy 1 course.
Hope this helps :) Keep up the good work!
@xander
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3yr
Asked for help
Here's my attempt at the assignment. Interesting to finally learn about the knees. They were always a mystery to me. Any feedback is appreciated.
From looking at your other feedback requests, I’d say you’re trying detailed anatomy a little too early, and you keep shading your drawings which I think is distracting you.
Try simplifying forms to a very large degree. Do it to a degree that makes you think “yeah this feels like a hand,” even if it’s not anatomically correct. Try to think like an animator even if that’s not your goal. After, add what you can or would like to. Slowly build the complexity.
Hey! I would highly recommend to study a little more about the fundamentals. Right now, I can tell from looking at your work that you learned a lot about the triceps and its individual muscles. But the proportions of the overall figure are quite off here and there. Also, your linequality would benefit a lot from more and focused practice. Maybe take a break from anatomy and do those things first :) But keep in mind: no matter what you draw, as long as you do it regurlarly and consume good art meanwhile, you will improve!
Hi Xander. I think you did great! However for your first image the thumb bones look kind of small, and on your third image the pointer finger looks very thick. Keep up the good work though.
your representations of heads are lacking fundementals. Stan Prokopenko also made a course about portraits, there you can learn the loomis head method (wich is easy and accurate, almost everyone uses it)