[Wiked Ewok]

Hey, I want to try to get down my anatomy real well in the next few months. I've taken some figure drawing classes, but I still can't generate good poses/anatomy without some reference. So I'm hoping that doing some drawings and getting critiques about anatomy, proportions or foreshortening will help a lot. Here's my first picture from reference, but using the reference more for the pose than an exact copy. More to come hopefully..I can't do em that fast though:(, if I do they look real crappy.

-Marv


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[szabel]

You're doing good. Lower that right arm a bit. It looks like he's got it locked up near his body too much. Them bulk up those legs and bend thrm some more. The left knee should be pointing more toward the direction of the let foot too.

There really isnt shame in using reference though. Use reference to get the idea and feel of your pic and draw loosly from there. You're doing great from what I see.

[Wiked Ewok]

thanks for the crit szabel. I see how my leg is especially off. Your points are well taken.

I've been doing some sketches again, and an hour ago, I started reading loomis' book on figure drawing for all its worth. I've scanned it a couple times before, but never have had much time for doing exercises with it. This time I read it about half way, closed the book and started to try to draw from what I learned. I don't think I got proportions too correct but criticize away.



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[Wiked Ewok]

and another before bed

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[Wiked Ewok]

Hellboy!

again, crits comments on anatomy welcome. I didn't finish the coloring..too much time spent on it already. No reference for the pose, but I used reference for getting hellboy's costume pretty correct. He weres long pants in the movie though, not in the comic.




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[faeklone]

It looks like you're starting out on anatomy, so I'll me a little kind on you and tell you where your mistakes are. First of all is in your hips. The Hellboy picture is mostly the one I"m talking aobut. His legs are at odd positions, and therefore are giving you grief, because you're not cinsidering the placement of the hips. The hips join the leg to the body, and that is not what I see in this pic. The legs come straight out of the body without transitioning through the hip. A little look at reference, either from life or comics, is good. Also on hellboy, the eyes are a little out of sync with one another, and the rest of the face. Again, some good reference will help.

Hellboy is nicely coloured on the legs, however, the use of jarring black lines doesn't work to give the sence of abs that you are looking for. use more gradients to give your creation voloume.

In the two sketches in the middle fo the post, the figures look like walking skeletons. As if you took the skeleton as your reference point and then drew the body on top of that. Good starting point, however there are several muscles you missed, or are placed wrong. Frist is the pectoral muscles, or man-boobs. Treat them more as a square hunk of flesh, than a round one. The pecs also go to rought lthe end of the breastbone. So the abs start right below the pecs. Also look at the way your arm is bending. IT's not really going to bend a few of these positions unless it dislocates or breaks. Also pay attention to the muscles, and where they orient in certain positions. Use your own body as reference, movce your arm int heat way, and figure out where each of the muscles are pointing.

Last of all, although I realizt that these are sketches, please use less lines to define the figure. The figure is covered by skin, and so therefore is best drawn in one continuous line, not a jarring one. YOur figures will look better, and more realistic this way.

Anyway, you have your work cut out for you, but you're well on your way. Keep it up.

[Smoggie]

It would be good practice to do some non-superheroish stuff; fat people, for example.

I think faeklone's anatomy advice was satisfactory. Don't shy away from doing some form-based, more photoreal work in the future, though.