Common Mistakes of Drawing Breasts
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Pecs & Breasts

Common Mistakes of Drawing Breasts

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Common Mistakes of Drawing Breasts

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Assignment: Draw the Breasts

The assignment for this lesson is to do some quicksketch gesture drawings. Focus on how to position and motion of the body affects the shape of the breasts. And of course, don’t forget about the pec muscle under the breast tissue. I’ve provided some reference photos in the link below. If you’re not sure how to do a gesture drawing, refer back to the gesture lesson in the figure drawing course. Grab your breast pencil and bust out some drawings! Man, the puns are really racking up. I gotta milk it for all it’s worth.
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@spideronthewall
I attempted at adding anatomy over my original gesture sketches.
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@spideronthewall
my first attempt at the gesture sketches
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Karas Rijji
I attempted the proper way in each sketch, I want to become as concise as stan's demonstration
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Manuel Rioja
My assigments ready for this leson
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Steve Lenze
Nice!
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Ezra
4mo
On checking out other submissions and the example videos.. maybe I was wrong to assume this was meant to be quick sketch 😅 Regardless here’s my gesture drawings - I did take a bit of extra time to focus on the form of the breasts
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@palyo
Hi everyone! These drawings are my assignments for the breasts lesson . Other than the poses sent in the downloads , i've did some gesture drawings but i forgot to take the references for them . Anyway, i think the worst drawing out all of them is the one on the right in the third photo, it just doesn't feel natural to me the way i drew it. I would really appreciate any kind of feedback and critique.
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@prokulous
The line of the breast where it connects to the armpit it looks like it’s curving ever so slightly inward toward the rib cage. Perhaps try curving slightly outwards towards the armpit like you did in the drawing next to it? To get a smoother transition
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Jesper Axelsson
Nice studies! The breasts look pretty good in the drawing to right in the third photo, but the pose is a bit unbalanced. Her right foot doesn't appear to be planted against the ground plane as in the photo, but more like she's on her toes. That gives me the feeling that she's about to fall back. - Overall I think you did a pretty good job drawing the breasts. I might study how the breasts interact with the pecs a bit more (eBook: The Breasts page 1) . There is some ambiguity about that in your drawings. In image 8 for example, you have the brest mass pointing to the upper humerus, but that's the pec's job. In image 7 you have the outer contour of the breast overlap the pec, when it's actually the opposite. - As for general drawing: I think your drawings need more gesture. By that, I don't necessarily mean more exaggeration in the posing, but making sure that there is a flow connecting everything. It could be the flow running through the body, the gesture of the pose so to speak, but also a flow between unrelated parts of the body, to make sure that you get a harmonic composition. Maybe you'll find this post and my paintover in it interesting https://www.proko.com/s/DGcZ Gesture, gesture, GESTURE! It's a superimportant concept, that holds your work together and makes it come a live. It doesn't have to be as obvious as in Heinrich Kley's work and traditional animation drawing. It could be subtle like in this painting by Rafael https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Raphael_-_Madonna_in_the_Meadow_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/1200px-Raphael_-_Madonna_in_the_Meadow_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg. The gesture is there holding it all together, but it's "hidden". You might appreciate checking out this Drawing Demo by Glenn Vilppu Hope this helps :) Keep up the good work!
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Myles Goethe
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Dylan Doster
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Tasha
Some more drawings after watching the example videos.
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Tasha
10mo
Here are my drawings before watching the example videos.
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Lenserd martell
胸ってバレーションが多いので描きつらいですねエロい感じもあまり:(悲しい
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Jesper Axelsson
Hi @Lenserd martell, my Japanese knowledge is very limited, so I'll write this reply in English. I hope that's fine. Overall I think these look good👍 - Try to show the breasts' form better. In Image 1 for example, the breast closes too us feels flat. - It might help to think of the breast as two pieces: 1 muscle piece, and one breast piece. The breast piece "hangs" on the muscle piece. You see this clearly in the eBook: The Breasts, page 1. - In some of these you've lost some gesture. Hope this helps :) Keep up the good work!
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Samuel Parker
First few drawings I did were quite jittery because I just had coffee, I did some more from reference off the internet and I drew some bresticles from imagination :^)
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@jocetx
Help, I can't download the images :(
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@viny
by far one of my best quick sketches
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Margaret Langston
Here are my breasts:
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Sofia Johansson
the second drawing from the end is gorgeous! well done :)
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Steve Lenze
Hey Margret, I'm still laughing at your title "Here are my breasts" I really like your drawings, they have a lot of gesture and are a bit stylized in a cool way :)
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Tsotne Shonia
I know they're meant to be anatomy studies but I couldn't help myself, I had to try and make them pretty line drawings Boobs are too sacred Still learned a lot and had a ton of fun so it's all good I guess :-D
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@fefelix
Hey everyone! I added the pec. maior in blue, I hope that's not too distracting :i Anyways, looking forward to your feedback on (breast) anatomy, readability and gesture!
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Warren Hart
Looks great!
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Sandra Süsser
Lesson notes breasts and first test and study
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@mathews
the real reason why most of us got into anatomy.
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Jesper Axelsson
Nice! Really solid drawings!
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@unpayedintern123
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Jesper Axelsson
Hi @unpayedintern123, nice studies! I like how you really dissect the figure in order to understand the anatomy. - It would be nice if you showed the forms of the breasts more clearly. They feel a bit flat compared to the threedimensionality of the skeleton you've drawn. Really think of the breasts as 3D-forms interacting with the ribcage beneath. You could show the roundness by adding crosscontours. You might also benefit from enveloping the breasts lightly before adding details, to make sure they relate correctly to eachother, but also to make sure you've considered the form of each breast. I think you would appreciate watching and following along with Stan's examples: How to Draw Breasts – Assignment Example 1. I like to 1. start by trying myself, 2. then copy Stan's way of drawing 3. then retrying on my own, but trying to draw the way Stan did. Hope this helps :) Keep up the good work!
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