Anatomy Lesson Series: Body Part 2 - The Torso

[michael-olszak]

Wow great sketch Ruos

cool work Fes

[jojo1975]

@FES WOW ! for me that count as a 5 torsos how many hours did you spent for that ? awesome !
@KMSCOTTMOORE Which technique did you use ? Chalk ? I really like the result
@Frejasphere I really like the oil and chalk very “personal” style even in a workshop
@Michael-Olsak Great I love them. It can be easily seen how you hand is “used” to sketch, your brain seem to find immediatly the correct lines not like mine that has to do a lot more of search.
@Ruos KEEP GOING !!

Here’s another 4

[Fes]

@FES WOW ! for me that count as a 5 torsos how many hours did you spent for that ? awesome !

Thanks jojo1975. I’m not absolutely sure how long it took, I didn’t count… but probably about 4-5 hrs. :curious:

[ytresu]

This is my last project I will post as a WIP
The subject is the no. 050
Rubens Pan and Syrinx

Step 1 pencil scan
only some lines as opposing curves
(As RebeccaK in her thread
Opposing Curves Article (Nudity):
http://features.cgsociety.org/story…y_id=3346&page=)

Step 2 pencil scan
Some more detail

Step 3 pencil scan
Pan and Syrinx

Step 4 pencil scan
More detailed figures

PAN

SYRiNX

Step 5 effect
Photoshop: add color fill (C94F20) - add noise (10%) - layer color burn

Step 6 (coming soon)

C&C welcome

[vanlicht]

It’s a true blessing to see tons of overflowing nice works, which are pleasing to the eyes and worth learning from.
It’s my 3/50 of anatomy drawing…still have to try my best.
039 MICHELANGELO Buonarroti
Study for the Libyan Sibyl
1511

ytresu: That’s a wonderful break down, thanks for the sharing. Nice hatching! Bold and to the right place. Nice colors too.
Fes: 064- Love the texturing, clean and delicate. Very professional!
Bell7: 013- a few hours? Wow. It’s outstanding. Nice sense of volume and dented feels.
085- stunning, has a breadth of spirit in it, and the head part is quite expressive.
033- wow…i simply fall in love with this piece. though the volume of his raised arm is absorbed bit too much by the shadow.
TripletDad: 042- for the head part you did a nice job. And your no. 3 & 4…beautiful, love them both.
kmscottmoore: 005- i think the persona’s centre of weight is more unbalanced, i.e. more in dynamic in the original painting. That affects the spine shape and shoulder rotation. Though, you got a beautiful shadings defining muscle groups in the torso. I’d suggest the left part of the Scapula area could have bit wider white (highlight range) area.
Intervain: 061- tons of delicacy. you said it’s not there, but it’s there. 062-this is a mind-blowing piece, quite a luscious, fleshy look.
Frejasphere: 066, 021- Love the coherence among the colours. 17, 18, 19 & 20- the mild color is cool too.
YMS: 087- rough, bold, dramatic! 041- I like the bursh touches esp. around the left chest and shoulder. Wow, you are quite prolific.
Laleloh: I love your sketching, very clean and alomst stylistic. neatly defined countour and smooth shading.
NR43: 054- erg goed. love how you handle the squeezed part of the leg and the torso.
jojo1975: That’s a nice deidication to art. you can grab the volume nicely, and the contour is clean too. I also just got some basic sketching classes recently , and i find as soon as i learn some basic know-how and theory about sketching, it helps me a ton.
craban: 063,002,013- i love 063 and specifically 013. it has quite a melancholy look
MechaHateChimp: the way you circling up muscles and the color applied are quite enjoyable to watch. Your paintings are always quality works.
monicaitt: 110- nice colors. I like the sense of mildness the sketching brings.
jancko: 076- i like the attemp of cross hatching. 016,019,051,052,056,062,069- amazing! different kind of lines bring various styles. I particularily like 052.
Kewn: 013- nice sense of volume!
JoshT: it’s hard to describe, but your brushing has kind of swiftness that i admire. The Shading is soft and mild, nice.
AztcFireFlower: your drawing about Ribera looks nice, i like how you handle the head part.
Nothingness: your Laocoon had just blown me away.
pierceda: your no. 8 and 9 are nice, and i like no. 8.
Redsand1080: thanks for the compliment.

[LaleLoh]

ahaha~ done half of them!
Awsome staff everyone!
espcially thanks vanlicht and ytresu for sharing their procedure, I learn a lot!
Keep rolling everyone!! really dont wanna stop until all of the 50 are done!

[Intervain]

vanlicht - thank you very much - you made me blush Nice walk-through btw!

yet another Rubens this time - The Abduction of Ganymede

[aggie93]

Vanlicht - Did you do your last submittal digital? What was the medium, pastel?

[Bell7]

[color=Yellow]michael-olszak - [/color]like your line work, think Nr080 is my favourite.

Maidith - you’ve made 010 really moody, the colour scheme is fab.

Ruos - would like to see more

ytresu - great to see how it comes together, thanks for posting the steps!

vanlicht - again, great to see others at work and to watch the figure taking such beautiful form and detail. Thanks for the comments, I wanted an almost metallic feel for 013 and it just seemed to come together quickly with a (by chance) combination of brush dabs & strokes to get the skin texture.

Intervain - love how the painting seems to flow up with a focus on the face

Great to see so much work, looking forward to the next study (and hopefully some time this week to add another study or two, damn the day job!! :)).

[system]

LaleLoh: great job on number 25, I can feel the depth of the guy going back into space.

[color=Blue]Vanlicht: Thank you for showing a breakdown of your working process. I love how you breakdown the figure into the basic shapes. You make it look so easy.

ytresu: Great use of lines, they really give the feel of the form of the body. I love the use of color on the final render as well.

jojo1975: Nice hatching style, especially on the third drawing. It has a little bit of a comic book feel to me and I like it. The 4th drawing has a nice sense of depth to the figure. keep up the great work.
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[/color][/color]Ruos: Wow, that greats Ruos. Nice use of highlights. Can’t wait to see more.

Maidith: I love the eyes in your Dawn painting, along with the gentle curves of the body. Very natural. The colors in the crouching boy are very expressive. Especially the highlight glow you put around the figure.

[color=Blue]Michael-olsazk: [color=#fffffe]You have a execellent feel for the form of the body. The torso on the second and third drawing feel like they are carved right out of paper and standing out. I like your use of lines.
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Fes:[color=#fffffe] That is a great Ruben painting of, [/color][/color][/color][/color] The Union of Earth and Water[color=Blue][color=#fffffe][color=Blue][color=#fffffe]. I love the colors and textures.

Bell7: I like the marble like texture to it. Looks great. Your Neptune painting I love.

kmscottmoore: Great muscle definition. Your drawing certainly shows all the aspects of shading to make the figure life like. keep up the good work.

[color=Blue]intervain: Great job on the, T[/color][/color][/color][/color][/color]he Holy Family with Sts Elizabeth and John the Baptist.

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Frejasphere:[/color][color=Blue][color=#fffffe][color=Blue][color=#fffffe][color=Blue] [color=#fffffe]I like your hatching technique. Very fluid in the Leda, by Leonardo da Vinci.
I also liked the colors in your chalk pastel drawings.

YMS: The tones of your second painting look great. They certainly define the body very well.

[color=Blue]Nr43: I love your [/color][/color][/color][/color][/color][/color][/color]Ganymede drawing, the bold lines make the drawing pop off the page. Keep it up.
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[color=Blue]jojo1975: [color=#fffffe] Love the crosshatching in your first drawing
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I think thats everyone. My apologizes if I missed anyone.
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[color=White]3rd one for the challenge, definetly not going to make the 50 mark. :sad: I didn’t like my shading at all with this one. ack.

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AMMANATI, Bartolomeo
Leda with the Swan
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Marble
Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence

4th drawing

          007:
          MICHELANGELO Buonarroti
          Christ Carrying the Cross
          1521
          Marble, height 205 cm
          Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome

hmm the drawing underneath scanned through crude. oh well

more to come.

[kmscottmoore]

I’m so far behind, so my apologies to anyone I left out:

Fes, great work!

jojo1975, thanks! The last one was Negro lead on laid paper. Negro is very black, about a 6B, but it doesn’t have that nasty shiny look of graphite when rubbed. The laid paper helps to break up the edges.

ytresu, thanks for posting the steps. I always like to see how everyone does “their thing”.

vanlicht, very nice!

spartan02, thanks!

[Intervain]

Bell7 - thank you
spartan02 - thanks very much!

another one today - I’m inspired posing this guy was really hard for me - the body is bent in such a way that I found it really nightmarish to recreate the pose so forgive his chunkiness LOL

Rubens - Cupid

[vanlicht]

Vanlicht - Did you do your last submittal digital? What was the medium, pastel?

Hi, Aggie93, the 039 was done all in photoshop. 019 was done with water sketch pencil if you didn’t mean 039.

Thanks all for the heartly reply.
LaleLoh: neat as usual, i’d suggest make the shadow part darker.
spartan02: defining the muscle groups nicely.
Intervain: another brilliant piece, making me want to draw that piece too! How inspiring.
And yeah about chunkiness, i find the torso is bit widened and the right thigh where it connects the hip is thickened just a little bit. But looks at the texture, and the feather!
It’d be great if you could share your step and what bursh to use in painter/ photoshop. That’d be more wothy than gold.

[DiM]

All works is Great!
Intervain: Great coloristic!
Fes: No have words!
Intervain: Great stuff!
MechaHateChimp: I like your works!
vanlicht: & ytresu: your explanations are step by step remarkable. It is very interesting to see work in progress

My next speed sketch about 40-45 min

[Frejasphere]

Intervain - Thanks for your kind words! Lovely work you’re putting in; play of light on flesh…mmm
Tripletdad - thank you!
Bell7 - Nice Dawn, like the simplicity of her, and her face… thanks for comments too!
Fes - that’s a lovely Ruben’s painting!
Ytresu - Thank you for comments, and wow! I love your WIP! not knowing much about digital, it’s so cool to see the process… and nice work too!
jojo1975 - thank you! and do keep them coming! going well thumbs up!!

[Frejasphere]

ahhh! pushed send by mistake!

oh well

vanlicht - your 3rd is a lovely study! and nice to se process too!
Laleloh - great last ones you’ve posted! really nice feel of volume and shading!
Spartan02 - thanks for comments and keep them coming! nice work!

ok so these are today’s torsos

chalk pastel on paper 51x76cm

oil pastel graphite and ink on paper 51x76cm

chalk & oil pastel graphite and ink on paper 46x61cm

cheers all and take care
a.

[michael-olszak]

jojo1975 - Thanks man. I’m trying to be as loose as possible to get the flow going. Unfortunately that’s not always a success Nice sketches by the way.
ytresu - Very nice man
vanlicht vbmenu_register(“postmenu_3920952”, true); - Amazing man. I love this one. very nicely done!!
LaleLoh - Good work man. Keep em commin!
Intervain - i love the Classic painting feel it has. nice!
Bell7 - Thanks!
spartan02 - Thanks man, i appriciate it. I still have the problem with correct proportions and details. plus i just an’t seem to get any cool shadig in there. i don’t kow if it’s the paper i use or maybe my pencil (Probably it’s just me) Any way thanks. Like your sketches too man. cool work.

Great work everybody. Keep it up!!

[Mohd]

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[left]Thanx to all for great foresee.so i got to experience many great works.[/left]
[left]here’s My today’s sketch.[/left]
[left]it’s 093:Kneeling Nude Woman c. 1518
Red chalk, stylus underdrawing on paper, 279 x 187 mm
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh[/left]

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[left]Thanx very much to alllllll for honest remarks and contribution of their hard work.
specially Fes,Michael-olsazk,maidith,JoJo, ytresu(Nice way to draw,it’s must some helping stuff), spartan02 (keep it up,your sketches are goin towards impressive direction…thumbs up)[/left]
[left]lets do it more.[/left]
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[left]peace[/left]

[Intervain]

vanlicht - thnx again yeah he’s had one dinner too many LOL - funny I was hoping noone would look at the feathers they’re so bad THanks again!

DiM - thank you! Nice sketch - I like the dynamic feel of it!

Frejasphere - thanks! I really like the purple you’ve used on her totally unexpected!

michael-olszak -cheers!

Ruos - another great sketch from you!

time for another one - plus a small walk-through to give you an idea of the messy drawing process of mine LOL [as you can see I use a very low opacity - usually around 10% and cover it step by step - all in Photoshop btw]
Rubens again - this time it’s Venus Frigida

I admit I lost patience and didn’t quite finish her leg

[ha-dou-ken]

Fantastic work everyeone! I’ll post some C&C’s when I get home.
Here’s another one I finished this morning.