Critique for Exercise Illustrations
3yr
Michael Rosengart
Please let me know your thoughts on these!
I am looking to create accurate depictions of exercises for a book.
I just started on the anatomy course.
My process is the following:
I take photos of myself doing the exercises (with clothes on) and then I use the photos to guide the illustrations.
I need to invent all of the anatomy details and I am looking to create illustrates that accurately depict form and are also a bit dynamic to look at it.
Thanks for your feedback!
3yr
Hey Michael! These are really solid. In the context of using these fro an exercise book, these seem like they'll be work!
I guess my biggest critique is to watch your proportions a bit. For example, in the third image, it feels like their right foot is a bit too small.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but these feel a bit like tracings (totally fine). The reason I ask is that you lose out on gesture when tracing. The feet in all of them seem a bit flat, and I think that adding some structure to them would do a lot for the appeal of the images.
Also in the context of using these images for educational purposes, I would inject more information. In the second image, everything in the torso is accurate, but the side of the leg where the IT band is seems lacking. Also, near the neck, it seems like you didn't include the shoulder blades or traps.
These are good though! Really cool that you're using them for a personal project. Keep up the good work!
Michael Rosengart
3yr
Thank you! I will incorporate more gestures for sure and also follow your other feedbacks as well. Thanks for your input!
3yr
Hey there! As much as I love your lineart (It's wonderful) I think it's not the greatest tool for studies like this, be more free, be more gestural. Other than that I recommend adding some core shadows to define the form better.
I totally understand where you’re coming from and you make a good point! Thanks for the feedback!
3yr
these structures are really great and i love the minimalist but informative way in which you showed the muscles in the torso. Thats a great help for a newer artists like me, your drawing dont seem so daunting and are easy to learn from.
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3yr
Hi Michael, sorry this is a bit late, as I'm relatively new to the site, but I wanted to see if I could offer some advice.
The first thing that I'd like to point out is that if you wanted to make a book of drawings to help people understand exercises and movements, then these drawings are already perfect! They are very clear in communicating the movements/exercises/stretches that you're trying to show.
However, since you've expressed some interest in trying to make the anatomy more dynamic, then the drawings can have a bit of tweaks here and there. They are overall very solid, but there are just some slight proportional issues. For example, the chest and abdominals in the third image could be tweaked. I attached a draw-over for clarity.
There's also drawings where some anatomy looks more resolved than others? For example, the forearms, or in the second drawing, it would be the leg. I understand that maybe you haven't studied the anatomy of the entire human body, and that makes complete sense. Maybe this could be used to your advantage...maybe for your drawings, you only want to draw the anatomy in the areas where the muscles are getting worked, or stretched, etc? This could save you some time and also help clarify what the exercises do. That last suggestion though is just entirely my opinion, and you can completely ignore this last suggestion if it doesn't fit your vision haha.
Hope this helps, and let me know if there is anything that I can make more clear!
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