Rebecca Kimmel's Anatomy Review 002: OPPOSING CURVES

#381

My first sketch…from a local´s paper pic.
Fine point markers. about 15 minutes i guess (i lose track of the time when drawing)
(sorry for the quality of the pic : i have my scanner broken so i took it with my cell phone)

#382

My first sketch…from a local´s paper pic.

Fine point markers. about 15 minutes i guess (i lose track of the time when drawing)
(sorry for the quality of the pic : i have my scanner broken so i took it with my cell phone)

#383

another sketch… this one from a phography book

#384

Guys,

My apologies for not yet posting more reviews…I was away for the weekend, and thought I would have internet connection, but unfortunately only had connection over a 56K modem in the boonies :slight_smile: ~ suffice it to say I suffered from withdrawal ~ but I should have new reviews posted soon.

Additionally, I should be posting more thread topics this week, so stay tuned!

Thanks to everyone for the new posts, these are great! It’s cool to see more and more new people, as well as “vets” :wink: who return to post new work!!!

Thanks to everyone for participating in the new forum!!! :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#385

Thanks rebecca, your comments as allways are very helpfull. Please understand, I do not expect to be proficient in drawing the human figure right away. I expect hours of frustration and some lows and highs as well. I appreciate your time and your efforts to answer my questions. Thanks…

Shaun

#386

stipick_S,

Oh, no worries! I think you’ve contributed a lot to this thread-now-forum, and I sincerely hope you continue to do so! I look forward to your posts ~ both comments and work!

Thanks, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#387

huzzah, keep the crowd amused! :smiley:
the bottom one is like, dire, but bleh, it was on my piece of paper, so left it on :slight_smile:

Glad to see you got the forum up and going, some great threads are being started :slight_smile: Hope everyone keeps up the great work, there’s been some aweomse pictures posted!

I may have by no means even come close to cracking this, but i was wondering, do you know when the next lesson will be? :slight_smile:

Good work everyone.

#388

Guys,

I will be posting the NEW LESSON along with my last reviews for THIS lesson in a few days.

Thanks for your continued posts, and patience as I get the new sub-forum set up.

Thanks all for your contributions! :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#389

so you say “no worries” too… huh? I learned that saying from some irish fellows while I was away at “band camp”. I used to teach drum corps and was an asst. band director/ band director for a couple of years. Its an excellenst saying, makes your cares just go away. Great for those days when your drawings just are not going quite right! “No worries…Ill get it next time”.
LOVE IT!!!
YOU CAN DOOOO IT!!

I love this thread and all the members who make it so much fun!

Zarracin - I would love to see a better qaulity scan of the woman. That drawing looks fantastic and I would hate to miss out on your amazing abilities due to the limited qaulity of your scan.

Thanks,
Shauin

#390

Default.rol - Thanks for the comments, it’s always cool to see someone else’s work, especially if it’s from the same reference. I feel that your drawing has some strengths that mine really lacks. For example, you did a much better job of splaying the elbows out. In mine, the upper arms are almost perfectly parallel. Yours gives a better sense that one elbow is coming toward the camera while the other is farther away (I think it’s called foreshortening?).

Also, I think the central axis you worked from is more accurate than mine. I say that because of the way the hips and buttocks connect to the torso. It just looks much more accurate on yours.

The area that looks off to me is the lower trunk of your figure. Basically the area from the bottom of the ribcage to the waist looks like it’s a little out of proportion.

And the area where I think we both went wrong is the “pit” between where the clavicles almost meet at the top of the chest. I don’t think either drawing does a very good job of showing how the head connects to the body, maybe because in this drawing the neck is unusually curved and also obscured by the left shoulder.

So that’s my 2 cents. I hope it’s useful, but like most people on this forum, these last two lessons are the only real training I’ve got, so I’m no expert.

I liked your drawing of Michalangelo BTW. I don’t have any advice to give you about how to nail that hand that you were having problems with, except to say that when I did a google search, every pic that I came across was from the viewers eye level, which is much lower than the perspective in your drawing. If you take another crack at it, maybe try drawing from a lower angle.

Lastly, I’d like to share a technique that I find helpful sometimes when doing the gesture drawings, and may be helpful to some of you as well. Once I’ve roughly drawn in a head and all of the axes of the body, I draw circles of varying sizes (very lightly!) to denote exactly where the major joints (shoulders, hips, knees, elbows) are on the axes. The sizes of the circles gives me an immediate sense of where the joints are along the Z axis (depth). This helps me to understand how the figure is in 3D space as I proceed to draw.

Hope this helps!

#391

Desp#2/Rog: I really enjoy your progression pictures. From gesture to final, very well done.

#392

Hi Rebecca and gang.

This is my sketch for the OC lesson. I could squeeze time only for this one between kids, school and other stuff asking for my attention.

I used a DAZ figure for posing with Studio, i hope it’s a valid reference. If not i’ll redo the sketch.
Here it is:

Painter Classic

Glad to hear your critique.

~thanos~

#393

Thanks

#394

PixelFloss,

Looks like great reference to me!

Thank you for your post! :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#395

rebecca,i dunno where the hell to start in the forum,jus checkin in.

hello!.

#396

A big “thank you” to AndyDay for giving me some useful tips. It was much appreciated.

MIKE

#397

good stuff pixel floss. I could see where a program such as poser or similar could come in very handy while doing the exercises. good idea!

Dont be afraid to finish off the left foot. I think many of us disregard the digits on our hands and feet out of fear of complexity. keep up the good work

Shaun

#398

Finally here are my attempts. Done with photo reference.

Hope I’m not too late!

#399

I just had to get something in for this lesson, so I did these quickies. Methinks my charcoal stick is a bit too thick for small drawings.

As this is a classroom environment, crits are welcome!

#400

Thanks stipick_S.
I use the free DAZ Studio and the (also free) Victoria model.

I’ll get down to the foot asap :slight_smile: