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How to Draw Abs – Anatomy

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Stan Prokopenko

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How to Draw Abs – Anatomy

Lesson by

Stan Prokopenko

in Anatomy of the Human Body

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Mark as Completed

Assignments 147Lesson NotesDownloads 3

Assignment: Draw the Abs

Your assignment for this week is to do some quick sketches of models in various poses. Make sure to focus on the motion and form of the abs.

Sometimes to show the forms, it might make sense to indicate some tone. But don’t go overboard. The assignment is not to spend hours rendering a single pose. It’s to do a lot of quick studies. Sometimes an indication of a core shadow with the right shape and edge will be enough to indicate the form. If you’re new to shading, don’t shade for this exercise since it will be a distraction.

Daniel Lucas Nizari

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19d

Hopefully someone can help with deciphering this image for me. Is the green part, part of the abs or pecs? And what about the pink one? It’s the first image of the assignments

Rachel Dawn Owens

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18d

They are both actually part of the rib cage. This model has a very wide arch to his ribcage, so you see it more than usual. This arch can be greatly exaggerated on men to make them look more masculine. It’s something that Frazetta did a lot on his figures.

Giorgi Karkuzashvili

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2mo

Proportions are always difficult

Martin

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4mo

Abs, abs

Yoyo Yang

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5mo

Would appreciate it if anyone can help with some critique on my practice~ thanks a lot!

Rachel Dawn Owens

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5mo

Perfect abs!

Waner Hoogleiter

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6mo

@nemuiyo

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8mo

@nemuiyo

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8mo

Small update.

Cseri Zsolt

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8mo

Well, one main issue is that the origin of the ab is on the upper part of the pubic crest, it will never go all the way down to the bottom of the pelvis. The other is that you just paste the basic ab form to your drawing, not adjusting it to the pose, If there is a crease visible on the model, then it should be visible on your drawing as well. You can help this issue by focusing more on gesture drawings. Hope that helps, have a nice day

Vin

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10mo

Hello, here are my attempts before watching the demo. They look stiff. -_- And I am not showing the abs very well. I will post my after demo works too.

Vin

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10mo

Here are part of my after works. Will do more.

Ezra

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1yr

Abs!

Johnathan

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1yr

Johnathan

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1yr

happy to take feedback

Manuel Rioja

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1yr

Assigments done my way...

Michael Bristow

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1yr

that's really good!

Karas Rijji

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1yr

Here’s my assignment

Samuel Sanjaya

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1yr

My abs assignment. I also did some quicksketches as a warm ups. Any feedbacks or critiques on either or both of these will be greatly appreciated.

@palyo

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1yr

Hi! These are my drawings for the assignment of this lesson and it took me forever to complete(i've done these drawings 2 other times) . I still don't feel that confident with my lines sometimes and i'm working on it . Other than that , i'm still struggling a bit on gesture but i think these are a huge improvement compared to the breast assignment. Anyway,i would really appreciate any critique/advice.

Tasha

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2yr

My drawings for this lesson

Samuel Parker

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2yr

This was a really fun exercise :3

Margaret Langston

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2yr

Abs Assignments, first on my own, then a second attempt with Prof Proko examples :\

Tsotne Shonia

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2yr

I wanted to specifically practice *painting* abs because I used to struggle a lot with this, so I went quite heavy on the "shading". Here's my submission for this assignment :

Steve Lenze

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2yr

Hey Tsotne, Nice job on these paintings, you were not that far off. The biggest thing that I noticed is that you have too much contrast between your lights and shadows. This is pretty common and requires you to always compare a value to other values as you paint to see if it's lighter or darker. The other thing to keep in mind is that in some of the drawings you lost some of the structure of the figure causing it to look flat and unidimensional. Also, you are adding highlights in areas where they do not exist, causing some forms to look like balloons. I did a quick paint over some of your figures to show you what I mean, I hope it helps :)

squeen

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2yr

My suggestion is to avoid the shading and highlighting when starting out. It can be a "cheat code" into suggesting form that doesn't really stretch you as an artist and (truthfully) can turn into very bland and "generic" look in today's digital world. My two-cents.

Sandra Süsser

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2yr

Lesson notes abs

Gannon Beck

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2yr

Good notes!

Sarvesh Gupta

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2yr

Remaining abs assignments! Probably overdid the shading in the first one and I feel the pelvis could have been tilted more backwards in the second one.

Sarvesh Gupta

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2yr

Some more abs assignments! Also trying to apply some shading even though I am a novice at it.

Melissa Cook

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2yr

Nice job :) one thing I am noticing is you could show on the first one how the squash/compression on the right are affecting the abs. Also show the stretch on the left side. On the second one I would recommend exaggerating the gesture of the pose more, tilting the pelvis more, the centerline also feels too straight near the abs. In the picture is angled more to the right so it would be good to exaggerate that a bit. On the last one you have the placement correct but the abs are too symmetrical and the same. I would vary the design a bit, but not too much that they look wrong. Keep going! you are doing good