Anatomy of the Pelvis
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Anatomy of the Pelvis

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Anatomy of the Pelvis

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Assignment

Use a simple representation of the pelvis as a bucket. In the next lesson, I’ll show you how to break it down further to construct the minor forms of the pelvis. In the meantime, fill a page with buckets from various angles. Premium Anatomy students, you can login to your account and use the 3D model of the bucket and pelvis as reference. Spin it around and draw the bucket! If you’d like to sign up for the Premium Anatomy Course, go to proko.com/anatomy

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Joseph Osley
Bucketing
Olga K
21d
Practicing in drawing buckets.
Joseph Osley
These are superb.
SolisUmbra
27d
My page of buckets drawn from imagination
Waner Hoogleiter
@aeyt
4mo
Moving on from the spine for now and revisiting the pelvis lessons for the first time with the premium course! A couple ones from imagination today.
Rachel Dawn Owens
Nice! These are wonderful. You did a great job simplifying the forms. I think the curve going around the back of the pelvis would be higher. Keep it up!
Rachel Dawn Owens
Nice! These are wonderful. You did a great job simplifying the forms. I think the curve going around the back of the pelvis would be higher. Keep it up!
hArtMann
6mo
The 3D model was pretty helpful.
Arman Jucutan
Hello everyone, here is my work this assignment. I've had some trouble with the perspective. Please let me know if there are any improvements I can do! Thank you in advance kind stranger
@dooby
6mo
Bookit
Rachel Dawn Owens
Very nice 👍
@nemuiyo
9mo
Waner Hoogleiter
John Kavvadas
Сухроб К.
Fck so nice
@dooby
6mo
Hot Diggity Dog nice shading bro. The bucket legit looks like a 3D Blender model slapped right on the page
Marco Sordi
2023/2/4. Good morning everybody. Here's a study of the pelvis and its parts. Thanks and have a good Sunday.
Сухроб К.
Do you really need drawing course? You draw amazing
Adela Stopka
3-pointed perspective and elipses? Wau, real challenge :) I Started with square frustum (for me deformed cube with smaller base). Into this shape I added elipses. It was really hard (to draw nice ellipses when I know only 4 points) but I understood how it behaves. After that I started with ellipses and added perspective and rubber bands. Much simpler, fewer steps and much faster. Now the reall challenge will be to catch the proportions of height/length of the bucket :)
Nicolas Ladouceur
Re-visiting this exercise after a long time. After going back and learning more about perspective helped with this, but I still got ways to go on my cylinder forms.
Gannon Beck
11mo
Very cool. Good for you, doubling down on perspective. It will help you solve so many problems.
@kotka
1yr
A hard but quite fun exercise! First I failed but then found a formula that worked best for me: 1) Establishing vanishing point lines 2) Drawing the ovals within 3) "Cutting" off the part that is not necessary.
Samuel Sanjaya
re-visit the pelvis construction again. Bucket shapes is still hard for my head to get it. especially on a certain angle. It's the way it tapers and squish that makes it confusing to draw in angles for me. I hope i can get some feedbacks on this. For now I'm probably gonna stuck with boxes for a while
John Kavvadas
John Kavvadas
@gsvidyaa
1yr
Really nice!!
Liandro
1yr
I truly can’t work like that in a sketchbook - these are beautifully rendered drawings!
Samuel Sanjaya
My page of buckets. I find it hard to differentiate between this and cylinder when drawing. And sometimes subconciously draw a cylinder instead of bucket. Any feedbacks will be greatly appreciated.
Liandro
1yr
Hey, @Samuel Sanjaya, good job spending some time with these bucket sketches! I’m attaching a couple of drawings which might help you get a better understanding of the differences between the regular cylinder and the pelvis bucket. One does derive from the other, so there’s not much difference besides the tapering and the squish (which is what makes it more challenging in perspective, as Stan explains in detail in the lesson). I think it’s important to have in mind that the bucket helps a lot in constructing realistic anatomy. But a simple cylinder with a bit of tapering and without the squishing, even though not so anatomically accurate, could already get you around with placing the general forms and even with designing stylized, non-realistic characters. Hope this helps!
Eveline Rupenko
Hi everyone! Here are my bucket studies!
Hannah Lim
1yr
Oh wow! These look great! Awesome job.
Daniel Wood
Good lord these are beautifully drafted. What resources have you found helpful to improve your perspective skills to get this level of accuracy? I’m am starting drawabox soon, as recommended on the Draftsmen podcast, but always looking for more options. Keep up the great work (and maybe someone with more skill than me can find some actual critiques…)
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