On with the show.
I don’t stress often enough that the diagrams and schematics that I have developed are based on solid forms. They are orthographic parts of a plan to be able to visualize and project the forms in space. So use them to simplify complex structures but remember a square is always a cube and circle is always a sphere.
Here are a few very quick thumbnails using the information from the diagrams to visualize the pelvis in space.
Master Mentler - Do you ever do digital art? Just wondering if you handle it any different than with traditional means?
Truely amazing work here sir. I’m glad to see you back posting and motivating everyone again. Stay well and keep us full of knowledge and inspired.
Cheers. 
Thanks all for your kind words this year. I will try to get by and leave you all presents on your threads in the true spirit of the Holidays!
A couple of Domenicus drawings done on the plane. These are actual size which is of course small so I included a blow-up detail for those of you who have a compulsion to crosshatch.
These, as always, are done from imagination which probably doesn’t speak well of my soul.
Portraits of Imperfect Souls
:bounce: wow those are so cool! Are they priests? I love the way you drew those - they look like all deck of cards!
HEY…DOC…HAPPY NEW YEAR…
:bounce:
KEEP INSPIRED, and INSPIRERING…SEE YOU NEXT YEAR…
TAKE CARE
Glenn
Magdelana and Glen, many thanks
First, let me again say thanks for your support in 06 and I will try to keep them coming in 07. As most of you know I am working on several projects including DVD’s and books. I am also planning to do some streaming videos step-by-step tutorials as well.
I know this looks like a great deal of measuring but in reality I stress during everything visually and freehand without the use of mechanical aides.
The purpose is to train the eye to see visual relationships and proportions.
These are all based on the “Cranial Index” (sometimes called the Sternal Index) which is used by the scientific community in human studies.
I would like to stress that drawing is really a matter of connecting the dots.
It is about knowing where a line starts and where it ends. In anatomy we calls those insertion points. Getting from one insertion point to the other is what line does the way that the makes that journey is what makes the difference.
One must have some concept of proportion and that proportion needs landmarks to make it functional.
The following plan diagrams and thumbnail projections are based on a grid system which I have developed based on the “Cranial Index”
I could give many acknowledgments here but will save that for the books.
These are just beginning sketches and roughs for book folios.
I know they are hard to read and I apologize for that as well.
I have heard many times in forums like these that, I hate school or I am not good in school and all I want to do is art.
Let me tell you that it is all very important. Learn as much as you can about math, (especially geometry) physics, biology, history, literature, English, music, dance, architecture, botany etc. etc. etc.
The more you know the better your art will be.
In dealing with the rib-cage remember that the important thing is its over-all form and as far as the details such as individual ribs note the insertion points the angles and fine the first, fifth and tenth ribs is probably enough for a starting point.
The rendering of detail is not as important as understanding that function creates form.
Most medical skeletons have spinal columns that do not have as much curvature as in a live person (look at x-rays if you can) most anatomical text drawings are done from these inaccurate skeletons.
So try to make sure you understand the correct curvature/vitality of the spinal column because that vitality will put more life into your drawings.
hey mr. mentler!
-i can’t do anything but stand back in awe for you work. hey!, even your handwriting looks good.
i always gets inspired by watching your stuff.
-r
Amazing stuff you have here! It’s really inspiring! And I love your handwriting style too, it fits right in with the drawings, even though it’s hard to read…it’s a piece of art in itself 
Michaelis a Happy New Year first of all!
Secondly - thank you so much for taking your time to type those lessons :love:
excellent! especially the point about the curviture of the spine - noted 
Man, I don’t know how you do all this stuff in Pen.
I spend literally as much time erasing as I do drawing.
Love all of the stuff you have in here, high quality, all of it.
Cheers
I review this stuff before every lecture. I work from memory to see what I may have forgotten. I find I learn more every time…
As I said my workshops start this week so if you are in the Dallas area come and draw with us.
wish you a good luck with your workshop… if i were there…
any plan to open workshop here?
If only I were in Dallas!!
I love the way you handle the geometry of the human body! Rational, but very unique.
It reminds me on how much I have to learn about proportions.
Thanks for sharing this.
-Cya
The Bones of Bones <> A Never Ending Saga
More workshops handouts to accompany my demos.
I loove the way you write. Do you do this so that it makes your students pay extra attention when reading it? I find I need to concentrate to read some of the words. This is not a bad thing, it is very decorative, and I positively love how it makes me have to read each word individually with care.
Your ideas on the form and how each part functions is very interesting. To start from the beginning of these online papers, where would I start? This topic or one from another place? Your own forum, or the CA.org?
Thank you for sharing.
Andrew, there is a bunch of stuff here it is not organized and I have learned a lot since the first post but I think it still may have some value.
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=26748
Of course the SoFA forums have a bunch as well.
