Proportions Critique and Advanced Chart Drawing
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Educator, painter, writer, and art historian. Author of Figure Drawing: Design and Invention.
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In the premium lesson, we focus on refining proportions and adding in some basic anatomy to your proportion project submissions. You'll learn how to:
- Correctly align the width of the head with the rib cage and pelvis.
- Apply the eight-head division to maintain accurate figure proportions.
- Incorporate key anatomical details, such as the sternum, and understand differences between male and female rib cages.
- Construct the pelvis with precision using the checkerboard method.
- Place limbs correctly by adjusting leg lengths and understanding knee placement.
- Add the scapula and clavicle to you proportion sketches.
- Draw arms and hands with proper proportions and consider the carrying angle.
By mastering these fundamentals, you'll improve the accuracy and expressiveness of your gesture drawings.
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In this critique Michael focuses on refining proportions and adding in some basic anatomy to your proportion project submissions.
My post critique attempt at the chart. These did clear some of the problems I did have. he placement of the femur in relation to the pelvis was something that I was having a hard time with. While this is far from perfect, it did help me tremendously. The other major area where this helped is he placement of the knees. Again, not perfect, but there was a lot of clarity.
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5d
Nice work!
I found it helpful to look up body parts' relative weights. The approximate percentages of total body weight are: head 8%, thorax 20%, soft abdomen 12%, pelvis 15%, each leg 17.5%, each arm 5%. So when the figure’s is bent over with the head+arms+thorax+abdomen leaning forward, 50% of the body weight is pulling it over. And 50% (pelvis+legs) is holding it back.
A lot to take in. I watched the class twice to grasp it all. And did the assignment along with you while listening. What a great grounding!
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2mo
Nice notes!
Late to the party but following along as is everyone else. Traditional artist so the process is more reactive but im hoping to improve as time goes on. Appreciate these online lessons. Can't imagine how life was having this knowledge gatekept to institutions
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5mo
Nicely done!
This one I did a few months ago, I still cringe to this day because it looks terrible but I learnt a lot about human anatomy and proportions it truly helped when i was doing gestures since I struggled a lot it helped me when I followed these guides ! Thank you so much Michael Hampton
Recently started this course, really engaging way of teaching so far. Here is my attempt at the assignment. Open for any critiques. Thank you!
Felt like getting a bit more practice before moving on. The first one is a revision of everything new from this lesson, in the second I attempted to make a similar chart without an explicit grid. Still not perfect obviously (I still don't really get how the frontveiw legs work) but I think it's good eniught to move on.
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8mo
Nice work! I can see the improvement
Takes a bit for the proportions to sink in. Fourth iteration. Two ovals of similar dimensions for the lateral head drawing… I must have a bias for drawing horizontal ovals too long. More alien than human, unintended consequence.
Here's my attempt after watching the critiques. Drawing all three views at once has been super helpful!
Thank you for the critique video.
Very helpful. I tried again after watching and I´m happy with the result so far.
