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In this demo, I'm simplifying torsos into boxes, deforming them to follow the pose's gesture. Using what we've learned so far to capture the perspective intuitively. This is a great exercise to balance gesture and structure.
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Cal Stanback
8d
Jack H
1mo
My post demo attempts. I think they look better than my first attempts after I started thinking more closely about the planes that were visible/angle of the torso. However, some still seem a little off or just don't look that nice.
I think I'm having trouble with the proportion between the ribcage box and the pelvis box, which causes the resulting connecting edges to be a bit off.
Zander Schmer-Lalama
1mo
Hey! So I had a bit of trouble with these. I really think that it’s my gesture lines again and I have to practice more on that. These ones were from imagination, tried my best with all of them. Please, give me some tips and pointers on these! Have a awesome day!
Krisztina Eperjesi
3mo
My torsos :)
Vue Thao
4mo
Sita Rabeling
5mo
just posting some of level 1 practice and one level 2. I want to work more on line quality. The second image is the same but is traced in procreate.
Will go back now to other assignments and I will keep practicing the gestural boxes until I really get it. ( +more Bridgman studies)
@bumatehewok
5mo
After following along with Stan I can see that didn't quite push the gesture enough in my own attempts. I also didn't really consider the hips and ribcage and how they pinch pull and twist.
Dermot
5mo
Here are my Torso Box attempts.
The Demo covered : 1, 5, 6, 10, 13, 16, and 18.
The Torso Boxes I tried after the Demo are:
2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, and 17.
I realise the torso boxes are open to interpretation.
I wonder if you could superimpose some of the boxes on the pose photographs
to help understand the torso box construction.
Any advice would be much appreciated, thanks.
Siv Nilsen
5mo
Level 2 - Torso boxes from photos. I see my boxes are way wobblier than Stan's.
Art Stark
5mo
These look great!
Siv Nilsen
5mo
Level 1 - torso boxes from imagination. I found this way harder than level 2, to draw from photos. I struggled with imagining poses...
Art Stark
5mo
Nice twisting action.
Sita Rabeling
5mo
Torso/pelvis boxes combined with some timed sessions.
Those are great for practice; so many good models there.
Scott
5mo
My attempt to follow along with the demo. One thing I like in following along is to see when to stop. I have a tendency to work things to death and I don't know when to call it good enough.
James Burnette
5mo
These are bitchin I wish he would do a whole chapter on this. I like the one piece structure. I always got confused when he hips were separate. Well more confused.
Juice
5mo
I like how you say hips😀
Daniel Lucas Nizari
5mo
@Stan, I would suspect with 5, to see more from his left torso side. Or is that my confusion where I focus to much on his muscles?
Jyayasi (*Jay-o-she*)
5mo
Yes, I also interpreted it with more of his left torso showing. To me, even the right shoulder seems to be moving backwards.. I know there can be different interpretations of the same pose, but mine looks too different from Stan’s.. i am not sure if I am making some basic mistake
Juice
5mo
I was thinking the same. I think stan exclude deltoid and lats from the box. But on the other side lats seem be included because stan choose to bloat the box there. ( deltoid is the pyramide shaped muscle on the shoulders and lats latisimus dorsi is a big back muscle that make the triangular shape on muscular mens torso/back)
Brandon
5mo
I guess the reason that i am confused about some of the posts is because I didn't really imagine the plane and was too focused on what I saw in the reference. I am also not sure about what looks good and what does not when making some decisions. Thx Stan. Heading to redo some of them.
Pedro Branco
5mo
Also bear in mind that there's a certain degree of subjective interpretation with the forms. There's really no fully "right" answer to any of these only degrees of "correct" as body parts such as the upper torso system change shape depending on factors such as musculature and the "stress" of the pose. As long as you interpret the landmarks and the gesture correctly then your torso boxes should be fine.
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