One of the major things Prof. Garvey made note of last time was how squished the side view drawing had looked. I think I succeeded in making the character look better proportioned. Hopefully Prof. Garvey will think that as well.
It will only get better with practice.
Update: I noticed a problem with the knee in the side picture, and I tried to fix it up a bit.
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Updated drawing:
Sam,
ReplyDeleteIt's good that you have gone through the process of discovering the major landmarks on the body that correspond to a unit measure base on the height of the head. As you admit yourself the hands and feet are problematic. But there's a similar issue with both the frontal view and side view. What I mean is if you look at how you drew the feet from the front view the toes are not properly foreshortened. They look flat but this is a problem with both drawings. Everything has a flatness and looks squeezed and compressed. This affects the musculature so it does not follow the rhythm of convexities and concavities.
At a certain level of abstraction there are rhythms of reverse curves that can be identified for example from the upper leg to lower leg.
Check out these examples:
Kritios Boy 480 BC
http://www.sandrashaw.com/images/AH1L15Krit2.jpg
http://www.elfwood.com/farp/figure/skeleton2.gif
http://www.elfwood.com/farp/figure/williamlibodyconstruction.html
http://media.photobucket.com/image/s%20curves%20in%20figure%20drawing/iolarnula/sketchbook/page_19.jpg
http://files.myopera.com/PainterWoman/blog/after%20signorelli%20master%20drawing%20resized.jpg
http://hippie.nu/~unicorn/tut/img/basics/humananatomy/spine.jpeg
This is an excellent comprehensive approach....I suggest following the entire tutorial!!!!!
http://hippie.nu/~unicorn/tut/xhtml/
http://www.sparked.biz/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/standing_sparked.jpg
http://www.sparked.biz/2008/07/10/drawing-exercise/
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/17-Jul-2009/164138-gestures_and_figures_2.jpg