Anatomy Lesson Series: Body Part 2 - The Torso

[ManicGarcia]

BANDINELLI, Baccio
Laocoön

[monicaitt]

Piccobella- I love the #7 sketch. Lovely, Nice and Soft.
RobertOrtiz- I love all of your work! You’re great man:)
Yms- Nice work, keep it up.
LaleLoh- I admire your sense of volume.
Vanlicht- Amazing! It looks 3d. Bravo! Your sketches are great as well. Your shading is perfect.
Nothingness- All the work you show is fantastic!:applause: i Love it!
Craban- I like your gestural -like style. great job
Aidanwilson- I like how you mixed up your compostion with hard and blending strokes. Great contrast.

Here’s a couple I drew up at work the other day.

Pencil Sketch

Sharpie Sketch

[RobertoOrtiz]

Thanks monicaitt, this is a lot of fun…

Here is an update…

-R

[piccolabella]

RobertOrtiz: your last piece is great!! i really love the detail in the hair, and the soft shadows that define the torso… just perfect.
monicaitt: i have to admit, i love to sketch in sharpie, too bad i don’t have a scanner anymore, i go crazy with the color.
craban: i really get a sense of the shape in you last one, i definitely got a feel for the volume.

i’m going to try and knock one out tonight before bed

[system]

Here are my first drawings for the toros challenge. Been reading throught forums for the past few weeks and decided to start participating. I need to work on my figure drawing, I want to get to the point that I can make them up from my head.

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[TripletDad]

I’ve been trying to post a few new pieces for about an hour trying different things but for some reason I keep getting error mesages. So, I’ll post my critiques and try to post the pics tomorrow.

Lexlex- Nice line work. If that’s Aiken, SC you’re from
howdy from an old thoroughbred.

Kewn- Looks like you don’t need any help with art education, that’s a great gesture drawing. Keep drawing, and drawing, and drawing. Learning to draw isn’t anything more than learning to see by observing. Rebecca’s right- get a sketchbook and draw!

LaleLoh- Your pencil drawings are great. I like the way you broke down the anatomical planes into larger shapes. Very dynamic.

Icey- Your stuff isn’t junk, it’s great! Don’t be so hard on yourself (yeah, I know easier said than done- and this coming from the master of negative self critique J )

Puppeli- your “Battle” is awesome! Nice depth.

Redsand1080- You rock. Love the line work and color.

MechaHateChimp- Great as always. Thanks for that quick color/dodge/burn tutorial.

Ytresu- Great line work and color wash. I had a college professor that used to draw in that style. Very cool.

Darktwin- Really nice pencil work.

Gilgamesh828- Wonderful color and light.

Thomasphoenix- Thanks for the compliment. Your drawings are incredible!

Aidanwilson- Great Neptune! Your new one of Christ is superb.

Mal-1- Great use of color. Nice Chiaroscuro.

Iridyse- same for you
really nice light and dark.

Vanlicht- Great David! I like the gesture drawing included with the finished piece.

Nothingness- Your laocoon has great depth.

There. I think I got caught up for the past week. If I forgot anybody specific please don’t be hurt. There’s a huge amount of drawings on this post. I’m running out of adjectives. Fantastic work everybody- keep it up!

[pierceda]

vanlicht, that’s an awesome David right there. Smooth tonal colors and clean.

A ton of great work so far, it’s too bad I haven’t given myself much time to participate here.

These are my 8 and 9th so far:

[ha-dou-ken]

Monicaitt: Good to see you posting! Good #hit.

Roberto: That last one is definitely one of my favorites of yours in this thread.

adian: I really enjoy your work. Shading is killer, no question.

I tried a new brush, and crashed and burned.:shrug:

Great work everyone, really.

[LaleLoh]

vanlicht: what a wonderful David!!!

Nothingness: good job, great shading, really expressed a sense of statue

aidanwilson: great feel of texture, is it a airbrush work?

craban: good proportion, keep it coming.

michael-olszak: I like your style~ very expressive

ManicGarcia: good study! my personal humble advise is to increase the contrust

monicaitt: thx for the nice comment, your style is cool

RobertoOrtiz: I love the variety in your work! the flow of your stroke can lead the viewer’s eyes
spartan02: keep them coming! I believe you will make them up from your mind after practice!

pierceda: I love your lineworks!!! very dramaic!!

ha-dou-ken: great shading! it’s a good try i think

the update of mine:

[craban]

I’m not sure this one (noah) was in the list of Rebeccak but I got it from the same site. But it’s a torso ! (Ok it got a few extremities)
I’m becomming more fluent with my digital painting.

Keep up the great work everyone.

-craban

[michael-olszak]

Nice work aidanwilson
craban : I like your style man. nice work
ha-dou-ken : nice man, very nice
LaleLoh: I like yours too. Thanks

Everyone else nice work too. Everybody makes a nice progress. Thats’s very good!!

Here are mine for today. I’ve done them digitally this time. With Art Rage.

Nr 085

Nr 087

And Nr 035

[system]

LaleLoh: I like your shading style very smooth.

Craban:Keep up the good work on the digitals. These two came out great.

ha-dou-ken: you didn’t crash and burn man, your digital is looking good. I like the nice tone transititions around the muscles. Keep it up

michael-olszak : keep up the good work, I especially like torso in your 2nd drawing second drawing.

I think thats everybody.
Catch you later

[TripletDad]

Here is number 3 & 4. I’ll be lucky to make 10 pieces by 15 October, but this has been a great learning experience none the less. I got tired of the pencil drawings, so I moved on to monochromatic pastel. Hope you like them.

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[Redsand1080]

Wow…such awesome werk goin’ up here! Haven’t got a chance to post in a while because of freelance werk, but I should have one tommorrow…hopefully.

TripletDad: The hatching on the pastel piece is fantastic! Great rendering. The leg is a bit twisted tho’ when you look at the kneecap compared to the foot.

michael-olszak: Thnx man! Can’t believe you did those on the computer…they look so much like drawings. I’ve heard of that program but have never used it. Looks like it could be cool tho’! It’s awesome to see how many werks you’ve been posting. You might want to try modeling the form a little bit more to really give it that sense of 3D. I’d really reccomend slowing down and really studying the figure and picking areas of intrest to pop more, by applying more detail, or pushing the contrast of light lights and dark darks. Also, it’s good to re-think the placement of forms once you’ve laid them down if they don’t seem quite right as opposed to just leaving them. Once you have your initial sketch down and you go back over it, analyzing it and pulling the details togather through shading, if you find that certain areas don’t add up, go ahead and try and figure out why…then erase it and re-position them to obtain the correct placement. That’s really how you start to learn and really improve, by getting things a little off, then stopping to figure out why, and then figuring out how to correct them. Because then, after you do that over and over, you start to apply what you learned from the previous drawing to the next, and those mis-observations don’t happen as often because you know how to catch yourself ahead of time. I’m not tryin’ to be pedantic…and I still have a long way to go myself, but hopefully I can improve and help others improve as well! (Writing this stuff out helps drill it in my head as well!) The rest of my posts will be short tho cause I can’t write that much again.

craban: Nice gestures!

LaleLoh: Great subtle shading!

Womball: Thnx man! You defintely should give those mediums a shot…should be lots of messy fun!

piccolabella: Thanks you! I think your werk is awesome and has much dynamism.

MechaHateChimp: Thnx! Gorgeous werk as always. I’ve been checkin’ out your articles in ImagineFX…very informative and well put togather. I have gotten some great advice from the latest one.

Icey: Awesome pencil werk…I like how you showed the shading ‘across the form’ in the one pic.

Nothingness: Thnx dude! Appreciate that…especially since I have admired quite a few of the pieces I’ve seen you post. That Jupiter and Callisto is especially wickid…and so is that Laccoon!

Puppeli: That ‘Battle’ scene is very nicely rendered.

hearbeat: Thnx! Not to sound stupid or anything…but I think you did a great job rendering the rear of that one figure. It really has nice form…and stuff…yea… But fer real…great job.

RobertoOritz: Really nice job on the muscle seperation with that Sybil.

Lexlex: Awesome countour line werks!

almostkungfu: Nice job on that fat dude!

Janko: Thanx a lot! So kewl to see so much experimentation from you! That’s really how you learn!

ytresu: Thnx! Glad your diggin’ the line werk. Keep rockin’!

Razz: Much obliged! Nice hatchwork on that figure with the staff.

Fess: Damn fine werk! REally great job on that skin…such subtle beauty…j’adore.

vanlicht: Veeery nice rendering of that David. Fine werk.

Adian: Nice job on taht Jesus holding the cross. That ‘teres major’ is really folding over that ‘lat.’

TriplettDad. Thnx! You have been putting up some very fine werk yourself.

Allright…can’t comment anymore…must get back to werk. Keep up the great job all!!

[monicaitt]

Great Job EveryOne. Keep up the Great Work.

my latest work. a little off but it’s still a wip.
pencil on paper.

[heartbeat]

Redsand1080- No worries ,thank you very much :).Post studies now

[michael-olszak]

Redsand1080 - Thanks a lot for you comments man. i appreciate them a lot dude !!
I indeed need to take it a bit easier and watch the details a bit more carefuly. Thanks a lot and please do not hasitate to make more in the future.

[ytresu]

This is my contribute for this weekend

After Caravaggio

After Ribera

TripletDad: hey truly good work<> I like mainly your dawn<>really well done

craban: good sign and line<>I like your style

ha-dou-ken: great work

TripletDad: thanks

RobertoOrtiz: excellent your last work

[Kewn]

Awesome work here, so inspirational!

[b]Rebecca[/b][font=Verdana] - Thanks for the help! I will start a sketchbook today minutes and put it in my sig, I just hope I can stick with it, I am chaos. I wish I could work less so I had more time to be on the forums..

TripletDad - Hey TripletDad, thanks for the encouragement! I will draw alot, I just have to hold on

Here's another master copy I just did:

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ARAVAGGIO
Sleeping Cupid
1608
Oil on canvas, 71 x 105 cm
Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence

[jancko]

Hi everyone,
CgIcecube: thanks for the support
Piccolabella: I’m working without thinking on the proportions, only thinking in the form…like if I was modeling a piece of clay,
This has help me in my hatching and in my line as well.
Nothingness:your laocoon is great, much hard work on it…and yes I love lines, I can’t help it, lines and contrast
Fes: your welcome! keep the good work!
Ytresu: I was thinking, what program do you use to make yours drawings?
they’re great but a think your lines could have a little more potencial and value in other program,
Perhaps photoshop or even flash!! Just thinking

Here’s a question for Rebeccak, Thomasphoenix, MechaHateChimp or anyone that can give an answer
what tools do the masters use to make theirs scketchs and studys??

It`d be great if we study japanese’s masters as well!

I`ve seven more
my scanner is giving me trouble
I’ve made this drawings without worrying on proportions, only line.
from the inside to the outside. All done directly with ink, except the last one ( bad line in this one :sad: )

016:
MICHELANGELO Buonarroti
Ignudo
1509-10
Fresco
Cappella Sistina, Vatican

019:
MICHELANGELO Buonarroti
Ignudo
1509-10
Fresco
Cappella Sistina, Vatican

051:
RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel
Prometheus Bound
1610-11
Oil on canvas, 243 x 210 cm
Museum of Art, Philadelphia

052:
RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel
Silenus (or Bacchus) and Satyrs
c. 1616
Drawing, 383 x 266 mm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

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

062:
RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel
The Three Graces
1639
Oil on wood, 221 x 181 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

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

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