Simplified skeleton studies
29d
Yashwardhan Singh
An exercise for understanding the frame of the body, along with the joints and movement. Critique is welcomed.
These are cool! Love your mannequin design, and your linework is impeccable. Clean! My pen drawings are usually a mess haha. You must have a very steady hand.
The most consistent problems I'm seeing are that you usually make the head/skull too big... and not that it's a huge deal for a simple mannequin drawing... but the accuracy could be better in some of these. Plus, I'm seeing some broken/bent/dislocated bones to correct for improper angles, but honestly, it adds to the gesture so I'm not bothered by it.
Other than that, this is excellent work overall, and I like the exercise. You have X-ray vision!
Hey Dan, I appreciate the critique and after manually measuring I did find a proportion mistake - I have made the bottom of ribcage narrower in some of these. But is that really what you meant by the head "being too big"? I also measured head to height, head to clavicles, and head to hips ratio and my drawings are consistently close to the reference. When you intuitively perceived the body being "small" did you take into account that muscles add significant volume to the body, like the deltoids significantly add to the width of the shoulders.
