Anatomy Lesson Series: Body Part 2 - The Torso

#401 
         063:
         RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel
         The Triumph of Victory (detail)
         c. 1614
         Oil on oak panel
         Staatliche Museen, Kassel

only my second torso… i was doing well until i got to the head, good thing it’s not a head study :slight_smile:

everyone’s sketches are really great… i’m absorbing so much here.

#402

Great updates from everyone! I love some of the pencilworks I have seen.

Here is number 07 from me:

           002:
           MICHELANGELO Buonarroti
           Bacchus
           1497
           Marble, height: 203 cm
           Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence

Tough piece and I am still not quite sure what is going on with the lighting on the abdominal area.
Keep up the great work everyone!

#403

guess it’s time to post something here


043:
RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel
Bacchus
1638-40


047:
RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel
Descent from the Cross (outside left)
1612-14


053:
RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel
St Sebastian
c. 1614


066:
RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel
Venus, Cupid, Baccchus and Ceres
1612-13


096:
RIBERA, Jusepe de
Martyrdom of St Philip
1639

#404

Here’s something I decided to try. It’s torso #005. I tried to make an animated version of how I came to the end product so you could see how I work. Was just experimenting with my tablet since I don’t paint that much, but now that I’ve looked at the animation, it’s obvious (to me anyway) that I didn’t do that much painting. Anyway, here it is.

I’ll be putting up more images later.

-Chris

#405

Nice work :slight_smile: around !
My two attempts at torso #3, not at all happy with them and I decided to continue with the next one so I am posting them

M.

#406

jarvis, that animation is really nifty!

#407

Thanks Piccolabella.

-Chris

#408

I’m loving this thread and all your works !

@MechaHateChimp : great works as usual !

@NR43 : Glad you like my plates :slight_smile: In my opinion you have a good eye but you should play more with shadows to enhance muscles’ volumes

@ytresu : finally another italian ! I love your #055

@wiggin : I think you are on the right way. Each pic express an high sense of volumes. You only have…practice !

@Helen-Baq : always gentle palette. I love it !

@Mal-1 : a pro-hand. Nothing to say OoO

@Redsand1080 : ahah it was really ‘dark’ :))
I’m glad you like my greens even if they are far from a photo-quality 8) Well, here in Italy there’s a strange theory on Michelangelo and his personal vision of female body BUT I don’t want to cause a flame so I won’t write it :stuck_out_tongue:

@ThomasPhoenix : I promise, I’ll post bigger images starting from this one. Click on the 800 pxl to see the larger one

@YMS : I don’t know what there’s in your style but it attracts me everytime. I’m waiting for new images.

@darktwin : man you pencils are…I don’t know the eng word. It’s like to see a wip of a statue. You cut the ‘muscles’ blocks’. Beautiful, beautiful an beautiful !

Here my third pic (90 mins : pure sketches). Click on it to see a 2000pxl image (600KB)

#409

Hello! This is my first post on these boards. I couldn’t resist this exercise. These are all very beautiful! I envy how inspired and free many of these drawings are, like you’re feeling the subject. It’s a struggle for me just to copy, but I know we all start somewhere. I have little experience with anatomy but I think it’s awesome and I want to learn it, so my goal is to do 4 of these torsos a day to meet the deadline. Here are the first four I did yesterday, the first two in my sketchbook and the second pair in painter classic:

011:
MICHELANGELO Buonarroti
David
1504
Marble, height 434 cm
Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence

069:
BERNINI, Gian Lorenzo
Truth
1645-52
Marble, height 280 cm
Galleria Borghese, Rome

040:
MICHELANGELO Buonarroti
Tomb of Giuliano de’ Medici (detail)
1526-33
Marble
Sagrestia Nuova, San Lorenzo, Florence

014:
MICHELANGELO Buonarroti
Dawn (detail)
1524-31
Marble
Sagrestia Nuova, San Lorenzo, Florence

#410


099:
RIBERA, Jusepe de
St Jerome and the Angel
1626

greetz to all

i’ll be more responsive when my internet is back up at speed !!

#411

nothingness: your pieces are really great, so much detail and value…

#412

hey thanx piccolabella !
it all depends on how much i’m in the mood.
i can get a bit too obsessed at times.

hey lexlex,

i love those digital studies nice style

#413

these are 3 and 4 for me… from the same piece though

         060:
         RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel
         The Four Continents
         c. 1615
         Oil on canvas, 209 x 284 cm
         Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

who couldn’t resist a baby’s torso?

#414

#080

I don’t usually “do” digital, but you guys inspired me to give it a try. Plus, I was purposely trying to imitate the style of a certain saucy forum moderator . . . :smiley:

#415

Okay I feel like i’m done for now. I’ll try a second one in color.

#416


057:
RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel
The Drunken Hercules
c. 1611


060:
RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel
The Four Continents
c. 1615

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87:
Milon of Crotona

Oil on canvas, 261 x 200 cm
Groeninge Museum, Bruges
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#417

greetings everyone!
here’s three more!

thank you Rebeccak, your opposing curves tutorial help me a lot, didn`t know such thing exist.

             005:
             MICHELANGELO Buonarroti
             Battle of Cascina (part)
             1505
             Cartoon
             Private collection

[img]http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/465/janckobattleofcascinaib8.jpg[/img]



             034:
             MICHELANGELO Buonarroti
             Slave (rebelling)
             c. 1513
             Marble, height 229 cm

[img]http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/7079/janckoslaverxp4.jpg[/img]

             026:
             MICHELANGELO Buonarroti
             Medici Madonna (detail)
             1521-31
             Marble
             Sagrestia Nuova, San Lorenzo, Florence

Bad paper = complete chaos :shrug:

[img]http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/7181/janckomedicimadonnajn8.jpg[/img]

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#418 
         084:
         BERNINI, Gian Lorenzo
         Saint Jerome

doing great everyone:bounce:

#419

Good thing there isn’t a thing like limited posts per thread lol
nice work EVERYONE! very inspiring!

Thanks for your comments CyborgJA, mitze, ha-dou-ken, Darktwin and ytresu
as you can see below I’ve more problems with traditional media
I still need a lot of practice…

today’s torso studies:
decided to speed things up a bit and concentrate on the lines… searching for balanced curves… not quite there yet… but practice makes perfect :slight_smile:

033:
MICHELANGELO Buonarroti
Slave (dying)
c. 1513
Marble, height 229 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

041:
MICHELANGELO Buonarroti
Twilight
1524-31
Marble, length: 195 cm
Sagrestia Nuova, San Lorenzo, Florence

056:
RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel
The Discovery of the Child Erichthonius
c. 1615
Oil on canvas, 218 x 317 cm
Sammlungen des Fürsten von und zu Lichtenstein, Vaduz

023:
MICHELANGELO Buonarroti
Male Figure
1530s
Chalk
Musée du Louvre, Paris

More torso’s tomorrow…

#420

ok, these are the last ones for the next few days. Time to do some modeling.

cheers


MICHELANGELO Buonarroti
Study for Adam
c. 1510


MICHELANGELO Buonarroti
Study for the Libyan Sibyl
1511


RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel
The Discovery of the Child Erichthonius
c. 1615