Anatomy Critiques – The Calves
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Anatomy Critiques – The Calves
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Merrill Hutchison
Here's my calves assignment. I think my weak points in these drawings are not splitting the shading into light and shadow as much as I could, needing more structure and indications of perspective of bony forms and tendons in some areas, and there are some proportion problems in some of the studies.
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I give my thoughts on a couple calf assignment drawings submitted to the Anatomy for Artists course. I'll give you two tricks for shading and one for shape design of muscles vs tendons. The first is a way to simplify shading. An easy template to use as a starting point. My second tip has to do with looking at the shading subtleties that a couple pro artists use and incorporating that within your work. Huge shoutout and thanks to Loish and Max Grecke.

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Merrill Hutchison
Here's my calves assignment. I think my weak points in these drawings are not splitting the shading into light and shadow as much as I could, needing more structure and indications of perspective of bony forms and tendons in some areas, and there are some proportion problems in some of the studies.
Patrick Bosworth
Excellent work!!
Gannon Beck
Very nice, Merrill!
Marco Sordi
Very nice study!
@axel21
3yr
I don't think that anyone in their right mind would blame an anatomy master critiquing another anatomy master. Old masters were people too, with flaws. I don't like this awe that we have on their works nowadays. Then again, I'm just another person trying to improve my anatomy, so my opinion barely matters, but let's relax a little, and be happy that the arts are improving with every passing year :)
Melissa Cook
agree!
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