Constructing Figures From Primitive Shapes
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Educator, painter, and art historian. Author of Figure Drawing: Design and Invention and Gesture Drawing: Dynamic Movement and Form.
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Part 1 of a step by step workflow for drawing figures. This lesson emphasizes the fundamentals and lessons covered in first 5 parts.
I have a few questions about the pelvic box and landmarks.
1. What's the difference between the sacral triangle and sacrum? I heard you use the two terms interchangeably. From my understanding, the sacrum is larger and is a skeletal landmark (so it's not visible). Is that why we use the sacral triangle instead?
2. Between the sacral triangle and sacrum, which landmark are we actually drawing?
3. In the proportion chart, we drew the sacrum in the middle-3rd of the pelvis. Is the sacral triangle in the same location?
4. Why does the top of the pelvic box start at the sacral triangle / PSIS? The iliac crest goes higher so... I'm a bit confused about that.
I love the course so far, thanks for the help!
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28d
1. For the purposes of drawing, there's no difference in my mind between the two and, yes, I find the sacral triangle to be more visible (despite being slightly higher) so refer to that.
2. The sacral triangle would be more accurate.
3. Yes
4. For simplicity. I'm really trying to edit as much as possible so that the anatomical information can be digested into a process. You can always add more complexity back on top of you wanted to see the drawing to be more "accurate" and less of a mannequin.
Hope this helps answer your questions!
Took far too many attempts at drawing an acceptably accurate gesture before I moved forward with figure construction. Even though I don't always know how to correct my errors, I'm getting better at seeing them. Any feedback is welcome.
I Can't find the video with arms legs and side view of skeleton
I don't think there is one unless it/they are from another course he has taught. I do have an image that I found a while back (I wish I could credit the source) that I think comes from his figure drawing book which might help.
Hi sir, I have a question, how will we add muscles to the body in this course? Do I need to take another course from you for that? Thanks
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5mo
Though there is a short section at the end this course focuses primarily on structure. Anatomy would be something you'd put over and covered in an additional course.
Coming from the gesture course, can you build the construction over the shape method??
And if not, then how do you modify characters using the first approach? e.g., making them brutes, sidekick, or the hero.
because it seems like that in the first method, you just focus on the rhythm
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6mo
I probably wouldn't build character off the rhythm approach. I find it more useful as a tool for studying movement and the psychology of body language. Essential qualities to later bring into character.
And ya, I think you could mix and match any of these stages/approaches to create a custom workflow.
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8mo
Naw, you're good. All the principles are there. Now you just need practice to bring it all together.
This system is really amazing , tho I ma still struggling , I am starting to understand the human form
The notes help, but there is a lot to memorize! I need to apply these concepts for them to sink in. I’m going to use some other references and try to map everything out.
Ok this answered the question I had in your gesture course. So Do a gesture 1st then contract shapes over it. Also great that you give different options in shapes to use for arms and legs. Think I'll just use cylinders when character has cloths on and use the oval and 2 by 4s when character is showing more skin or muscles
Also kind regret not doing this on the PC since it got kinda hard to draw over the gesture drawing
