Anatomy Lesson Series: Body Part 2 - The Torso

[Kewn]

Great stuff Jancko! There’s nice action in your figures, I should really make my lines more confident too.

Here’s a quick one I just did:

096:
RIBERA, Jusepe de
Martyrdom of St Philip
1639
Oil on canvas, 234 x 234 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

[ytresu]

jancko: there are two ways I approach to my drawigs: 1)I first draw manually the subject with pencil or a fountain pen, then I scan and import in Photoshop where I add some layers with colors, lines and effects. 2) I start to draw directly in Photosop ad my Intuos3 tablet. I use an A4 page at 300 dpi with simple brush to sketch my subject.
I’d like to try this process in Painter but I’m not so able and I have to learn a bit more about this program.
However your last post is very interesting<>good sketching.

[kmscottmoore]

Sorry I haven’t commented more. You guys are just too prolific for me to keep up with.

This is one of the figures from #005. Litho Crayon and white chalk on oatmeal paper.
I put a little mini-demo on my sketchbook thread.

[YMS]

Some comments, mostly about recent work.

  (I’ve only gone back to remind myself of a couple of pages so far, but I remember that the images that I’ve seen here over the last few weeks are truly incredible. So everyone, take your bows! Great work.)

   Dim, have to say that your quick torsos would take me hours – good job 

   Razz, I’ve yet to work with texture as you suggest – one of these days – my images must be looking too smooth?

   Serena, I hope I keep whatever it is you liked in my work – at least you weren’t put off by the roughness of them

   Scott, very effective work on #05

   Kewn, you say a lot with just a few lines - good suggestion of muscle tension in that last one

   jancko, your bad line one is my favourite – I painted this one in PS, and you said much more with your simple line work 

   Mark, yep, still around, in fits and starts – hope your torsos are still coming along

   ytresu, you’ve really got a great style going there now with your torsos – economical but very expressive

   monicaitt, I like your WIP crouching figure as it is

   TripletDad, skilful work with #3 and #4

   Michael, # 87 is a great gestural sketch – the emotion and tension is all there

   craban, nice digital work; I especially like Neptune

   Laleloh, nice delicate-looking pencil work in your 19th torso

   Ha-dou-ken, your golden woman has a definite solidity

   ManicGarcia, I like your colour choices for the Laocoon torso, and the way that you seem to have moulded those paints into shape

   spartan02, I liked your kneeling woman sketch

   Roberto, very nice work on # 54 – great softness, and delicate result; I especially like his face and curls

   pierceda, your 9th torso has a great sense of action

[JoshT]

I’m really liking alot of the linework I see in this thread.

TripletDad - I like your pastel style. I think I should try using them more. Never used them outside of class.

06/50

[YMS]

More torsos:

Torso # 12

104:

CARAVAGGIO
Flagellation
c. 1607
Oil on canvas, 390 x 260 cm

[img]http://spacific.net.nz/yms/2_CG_104_torso.jpg[/img]

Torso # 13

002:

MICHELANGELO Buonarroti
Bacchus
1497
Marble, height: 203 cm

[img]http://spacific.net.nz/yms/2_CG_torso.jpg[/img]


Torso # 14

069:

BERNINI, Gian Lorenzo
Truth
1645-52
Marble, height 280 cm

[img]http://spacific.net.nz/yms/69_CG_torso.jpg[/img]



Torso # 15

076:

CELLINI, Benvenuto
Ganymede
1545-47
Bronze, height: 62 cm

[img]http://spacific.net.nz/yms/76_CG_torso.jpg[/img]


Torso # 16

053:

RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel
St Sebastian
c. 1614
Oil on canvas, 200 x 120 cm

[img]http://spacific.net.nz/yms/53_CG_torso.jpg[/img]

[LaleLoh]

Fantastic atmosphere! keep the nice works coming everyone!

craban: you do made some progress on your digital painting

michael-olszak: good work! you have a good way of expressing real pencil feeling with artrage.
TripletDad: nice pastel staff!

ytresu: I love your linework

jancko: good combination with pencil and ink! a very good style!

Kewn: congratulations to your new sketchbook!

JoshT: your work is so smooth, I like it!

YMS: Man you are really diligent, love #15 most

My updates,
some of my firends said my work is not black enough, so I strengthened the shadow, however, it turns out sucked:sad:

tried another, emphersis on contrast, is it better? (still sucks I think…)

[Kewn]

kmscottmoore - Nice study, very confident lines, I like the arms

YMS - Thanks! Great studies you got there, especially the first one. I think I’ll do some digital too (well I’ll try).

JoshT - Great sense of twisting in the body, I should pick some twisted masters too, can be pretty tricky.

LaleLoh - Thanks man. Did your friends talk about contrast or just black? I think we got the same problem, I always lack in contrast too… Just practice I guess. Maybe it helps to see the master painting in greyscale, eventually upping the contrast a bit. I think that makes it easier to see different values.

Just did a new study, my shading kinda sucks, somehow I can’t get it right. Can’t even finish it. There’s just so much going on in the shading of these works.

013:
MICHELANGELO Buonarroti
Dawn
1524-31
Marble, length: 203 cm
Sagrestia Nuova, San Lorenzo, Florence

[jancko]

still fighting with the crosshatching, better left arm though

ytresu: thank you for the information, I’ll try your way with some of my drawings
YMS: you have potential, keep working at it. Great Ganymede by the way.
LaleLoh: thanks for your words; I’m only using ink, still working on it.

I read somewhere MICHELANGELO has good Hatching studys, I’ll try to study him more

076:
CELLINI, Benvenuto
Ganymede
1545-47

Anatomy Thread of jancko

[NR43]

Damn, I’ve been away too long lol
You people are really awesome did you know that

Ok, got a lot of catching up to do so here are the first 3 for today.
Done with a charcoal pencil

110:
Charon Ferrying the Shades
1735-40
Oil on canvas, 135 x 83 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris
50min

050:
RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel
Pan and Syrinx
1617-19
Oil on oak panel, 40 x 61 cm
Staatliche Museen, Kassel

45min

010:
MICHELANGELO Buonarroti
Crouching Boy
1530-33
Marble, height: 54 cm
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

15min

I’ll do some digital ones now…

[monicaitt]

latest tourso in ps
And there was COLOR!!!

110:
Charon Ferrying the Shades
1735-40
Oil on canvas, 135 x 83 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

[YMS]

A few more torsos (50 looks a long way off)

Torso # 17

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

Torso # 18

097:
RIBERA, Jusepe de
Saint Onufri
1637
Oil on canvas

 Torso # 19

065:
RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel
Venus Frigida
1614
Oil on wood, 142 x 184 cm

[MechaHateChimp]

Well, Ive decided to take a break from the studies so I can catch up with other projects. I’m a little bummed since I really did want to finish all 50 in one month. I’ll eventually finish these but unfortunately time wont let me. Thanks to everyone who took the time to comment on my work… keep up the great work! - J

[Kewn]

These are awesome MechaHateChimp, how do you start your drawings?
Forgot to post this one yesterday:

 097:
RIBERA, Jusepe de
Saint Onufri
1637
Oil on canvas

[Frejasphere]

Bit of a break, work dead-lines, life and photobucket took over…
got rid of photobucket finished painting for dead-line and reboosted back for some more torsos, sorry haven’t had a chance to go though all the posts - hope everyone’s enjoying this one

These 2 were done on the train… sketching, using graphite and balancing skills

cheers all
a.

[Frejasphere]

Some more on larger paper

Chalk pastel on paper
51x76cm

Graphite and charcoal on paper
51x76cm

Chalk pastels and graphite on paper
51x76cm

Chalk & oil pastels & Graphite on paper
51x76cm

Cheers all
a.

[craban]

3 more, I’ll never be able to pinch 50 in thirty days. but we’ll see.
Great work everyone and thanks for the comments.
I especially like MechaHateChimp’s works.

063:
RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel
The Triumph of Victory (detail)

002:
MICHELANGELO Buonarroti
Bacchus
1497

013:
MICHELANGELO Buonarroti
Dawn
1524-31

-craban

[Bell7]

Never going to get to fifty, but here’s a start :).

Done with painter and wacom.

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

[jojo1975]

Forst of all I would like to say that it was really cool to partecipate to this workshop. Drawin unfortunatly is not part of my job (I’m chemistry so I can only draw molecules) even if I would have loved to take some drawing school and have a “old school” background in art. This workshop for me was the opportunity to take 30 minutes everyday in lunch pause and to “play” with pencil (no photoshop in office). I think I won’t suceed in finishing all 50 torsos but I guess this was a good training. At least I hope to have learned something in human figure.
All around great posts and great works !

[NR43]

Hey jojo1975 it ain’t over yet
Bell7 wow really nice one
Frejasphere I like your simplifications. They must look really great in real, being on big paper
MechaHateChimp omg omfg! your 19/50 is one of my favs (hows that for constructive crits lol)
monicaitt cool! would love to see more!
YMS keep going girl!

here’s another traditional one from me:

054:
RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel
The Abduction of Ganymede
1611-12
Oil on canvas, 203 x 203 cm
Schwarzenberg Palace, Vienna