More Anatomy Practice
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@imaginear1984
Some more anatomy practice before I got to bed tonight. Tried doing some gesture and wire frame drawing over reference images. I dont own any of the stock images used. I got them off the Proko site, deviantArt and the internet. Once again C&C is appreciated.
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More anatomy sketching practice from last night before I went to bed.
Hi imaginear!
For now, don't worry about doing anatomical studies.
Of course, you can try to copy from some photographs if you like, but otherwise be patient and follow the lesson plan in order.
Later on there will be lessons on how to schematise shapes and on proportions, all very thorough and full of examples and exercises.
For now, concentrate mainly on gestures and pencil control so that you will be able to make quick sketches of a human figure with a few clean lines.
I know there's a desire to draw finished figures straight away but I assure you it's worth taking the time to practise each step.
At the end of the course, if you are patient and take the time to do the exercises, you will realise that you have made enormous progress, so don't be in a hurry :)
I dont know if you ever took a look at gesture drawings before. If no I would recommend doing that. Stan Prokopenko covers them in his figure drawing course. Why do I reccomend this? First of all he generally recommends to study gesture before anatomy and to be honest your drawings look kind of stiff. The proportions however seem to be quiet acurat.But all in all the picture is to small to put in a lot of anatomic details (atleast if youre not bridgman). I have also noticed that you seem to draw on only to axis. (x and y but not z).
There is no foward or backwards tilt in the pelvis and arm and legs also dont come foward. It looks 2 demensional. This obviously cotributes to the stiffnes. I guess the reason you made the drawing that way is simply because you dont know how to bring arms and legs foward. If you want to learn how to do that there are propably to things you should have a look at. First is to learn about the concept of forshortening and second is to sketch humans from reference. This will give you a visual library of poses and will help you in the longterm to invent completly new poses. The main advise that I can give you is to pause studing anatomy for now and absolve a figure drawing course first. I personally studyed this one: https://www.proko.com/course/figure-drawing-fundamentals/overview but there are propably otehr courses concerning that topic too.
Btw please excuse my bad gramma and spelling I absolutely suck at this.
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Some rough sketches I did on my breaks during work tonight. Done in charcoal, graphite and pastel.
I think you should focus on gesture and proportion before adding muscular details
I think in terms of perspective and finding basic shapes these are pretty good. The only thing I would say is that your lines look a bit scratchy. It looks as though you were trying to find the shape and form as you were drawing. So in terms of cleanliness, maybe observe and identify what you want to draw before you put down a line. Or clean up the line work on another layer. That being said seem to be able to figure out the perspective and direction of these forms fairly well. Keep going! Hope this helps!
I just traced over the images with a pencil tool in photo editor. I didn’t really use layers as I was just practicing late at night before going to bed. And making clean lines is something I struggle with still at least in digital art.
