Dr. Bone you’re one of my favorite artists here. Your sketches remind me of Da Vinci’s, but of course very different at the same time. They have a sort of a distinct character and style, from the lines to the cross-hatch. Simply awesome.
On an aside, how long does it take for you to write with that handwriting 
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Hi… Dr Bone…
GREAT head studies…
…my favorites are the ones where you have a little color added
to that great line work…like frame # 184…just seems to give that extra punch. Creates a
nice atmosphere with depth, and allows for hard and soft edges…adding unexpected and unpredictable elements and mystery to the drawing.
They are all great though, and very inspiring… that is just my personal preference.
A REAL PLEASURE SEEING SUCH DRAFSMANSHIP AT WORK, AND A REAL INSIRATION FOR ME…
TAKE CARE
Glenn
Your drawings are stunning.
Probably asking too much, but would you write a short tutorial on crosshatching? I am having trouble getting direction and form right, and I am sure I’m not alone!
Cheers,
Jack
Inspiring Stuff DocBone!
Positively love the guy on the bottom left!:bounce:! The lines describing his rt leg and torso ! Whoa boy!
Hi…Doc …
Just stopping by to tell you…LOVE those up angle shots you have CREATED in those figures.
Looking up at, from below…got to be the hardest to pull off corectly,:applause: …for me anyway…:eek:
REALLY looking up to you …Doc…KEEP INSPIRING
TAKE CARE
Glenn
Hi there Michael,
Long time no see! I’m hoping you might have the time to participate in the latest Workshop, which is definitely up your alley:
Cheers,
-Rebecca
Everything in post #205 is killing me…
I need to get drunk next time before I enter this thread so the experience will be numbed down to a bearable level.
I would lo…(insert several lines of continued '…o…'s)…ve to see a fully fledged finished and polished drawing by you. Even if I have to down a bottle of islay single malt to be able to watch it.
No longer MIA
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[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v413/mentler/ElGreco/120206h.jpg[/img]This is the system that I have developed and use to invent figures without using models or reference.
The first page basically refers to the flaws in using the head as a unit of measurement.
The number one problem with systems based on the head is that the head is an ovoid and changes shape and dimension as it is rotated in space the second problem is that the landmarks fall on flesh i.e. nipples and navels which of course vary depending on sex, age, weight and position.
The system I have developed is based on a sphere which does not change shape or dimension when rotated in space and thus becomes much more useful to the artist as a system of creating the human form in space.
This page is one I did recently from memory.
This is a first page of a complete tutorial on the Cranial Index and the Cranial Grid.
As you can see the torso from the top of the head to the pubic bone is 5.5 units and the legs from the top of the great trocantor to the floor measures 6 units.
I am starting here with the spine and out from there.
This would be my starting point for a male figure <> I often make the lower leg of females about one half unit longer.
bon giorno dottore bone-ifacius…
whenever I visit your thread I am totally overwhelmed by the display of knowledge in here.
I am only a hobbyist, so the amount of information I can study (read: study deeply and thoroughly) is somewhat limited. That and the feeling that for most of the stuff in here I sort of lack some prerquisite skills or just time spent on drawing.
But all in all I always feel that I will have to come back to this stuff when I am ready and here’s where the following question comes into play:
Do you plan on compiling and condensing all this systematical knowledge and your approach into an artist’s anatomy book of some kind?
I’m also interested
this thread is a real treasure but it is rather timetaking to find something particular if you don’t know the whole thread content by heart
Hi Dr. Bone… I went through your whole thread from the start yesterday… I was so taken up with your images that I forgot to post a reply… Your anatomy lessons are awesome… :bowdown: and so inspiring… I saved all your images and started studying them one by one… You are definity making me a better draughtsman!! Thanks a lot.
Yes a book is in the works comprized of my sketchbook pages add type-set translations of the copy
Mini-Tutorial continued <> Cranial Grid used to block-in pelvis from side view.
One thing I would like to point out here is that I do all of these exercises freehand to increase my ability to measure and draw things visually rather than using measuring devices.
This is the kind of knowledge one has to have to draw the figure convincingly without reference.
