How to Draw Obliques – Anatomy & Motion

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How to Draw Obliques – Anatomy & Motion

Lesson by

Stan Prokopenko

in Anatomy of the Human Body

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Assignment

Use the images provided in the downloads to draw the Robo Bean and Anato Bean. Then add the oblique with the correct stretching, pinching, or twisting. Think about the motion and how the motion deforms the shape of the muscle.

@aleeex

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1mo

oblique recognition practice, i can pinpoint the flank portion, however I am still a bit confused about the thoracic portion, I'll definitely come back to this assignment in some time. any critique is very welcome :)

Kassjan (Kass) Smyczek

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3mo

I have been drawing a lot but not uploading my assignments. So that‘s what I am doing now. I am in the Us for a couple of months and I don‘t have my scanner here - so I am trying my best to get good photos in natural light.

Benjamin Roseman

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4mo

Retry of the assignment part 1and some life sketches. Still doesn't seem like this stuff is clicking for me. Any advice

Benjamin Roseman

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5mo

Here are the skelly drawings. Had a hard time visualizing the muscle. Probably should study the attachment sites more.

Yoyo Yang

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10mo

Critiques are welcome~ Thank you!

Rachel Dawn Owens

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10mo

You captured the obliques really well here!

Dubčido

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10mo

Obs, obs.)

Dubčido

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10mo

Thank you

Ash

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10mo

Very nice!

Waner Hoogleiter

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11mo

@lazy0

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1yr

Could someone give me feedback On these Oblique studies, I don't know if they are correct or not. the pictures are in order.

@nemuiyo

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1yr

Alejandro

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1yr

Patrick Bosworth

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1yr

These look nice and solid, great construction, emphasized squash and stretch! Great job!

Vin

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1yr

Hello, here are my before and after. I did a lot of mistakes. And I still feel the form and the location of oblique are super hard.

Ezra

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1yr

obliques part 1

Manuel Rioja

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2yr

My assigments for this leson before watch Proko demonstrations.

Karas Rijji

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2yr

here are my oblique Part 2 & 3 assignments

Karas Rijji

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2yr

this is my oblique Part 1 assignment

Manuel Rioja

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2yr

According to the digital model, the origin of the obliques inserts just in the third/half of the lateral plane of the rib cage, approximately towards the middle of the height of the rib cage (at the fifth rib), above the level of the xiphoid process. It seems to me that in some of your drawings your obliques start out too low. But the gesture is very organic!

Steve Lenze

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2yr

these are nice :)

Samuel Sanjaya

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2yr

Hi, this is my oblique assignments. I did this first before watching the video, It seems for some reasons i Did not draw the connection to the serrator properly on the later drawing. Any feedbacks or critiques will be greatly appreciated.

Love Byström

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2yr

My drawing of the model at 2:03. It was just so clear that I needed to capture it. Didn’t pay attention to the gesture at all tho but understood the insertions much better than before so that’s good. Ok back to the video :)

@palyo

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2yr

Hi everyone! These are my drawings for this lesson's assignment .Personally i struggled a lot with proportions especially when drawing the abs so maybe i'll practice them until i feel confident while continuing the course. Other than that, i also struggled with insertions but i got them figured out while making the skelly draw-overs. Anyway , i would really appreciate any kind of advice /critique.

Manuel Rioja

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2yr

I like them! Remember that the fiber bundles of the obliques are 8 in total, and they are inserted in a saw shape from the fifth to the twelfth rib, descending parallel with an inclination of 45 degrees and then widening as they are inserted into the semilunar line of ABS. . Some of the oblique fiber bundles you drew look too straight (they actually curve to the shape of the ribcage), too wide, or the wrong amount.

Peter Tinkler

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2yr

I did a few extra studies of the obliques over the weekend from some sculptures in my local art gallery in Birmingham (UK). The obliques were not always clear or obvious, but I had a go at putting them in anyway. For the last one on the right (the twisted back angle), have I got the obliques curving too far into the middle of the lower back? Gonna try another one of these for my more detailed, toned torso study.

Peter Tinkler

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2yr

This is the first part of the obliques exercise, I've still to pick my model references and work from those (which I'm looking forward to). I think I tend to make the upper torso area (ribcage) too long, and sometimes, too wide. All good fun though.

Jesper Axelsson

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2yr

Nice! I think you get most things right. But there is some ambiguity in your drawings. Try to draw the whole muscle, all the way from where it originates to where it inserts. You're leaving white spots here and there making it feel undefined. It could be an artistic choise, but in anatomy studies when your goal is to understand the muscles, it could be useful to define the entire muscle clearly. When I studied the obliques, I drew all eight muscle bundles, and studied where they started on the ribcage, and where they inserted, tracking their path. Now that I have some more experience, I realize that that might have been an unnecessary amount of knowledge in relationship to my drawing skills, so take the advice with a grain of salt. However, I can't help but feel that it was worth it. I really understand the obliques now. Your drawings seem to lack some understanding of the path of the bundles and their attachments. One thing that helped me when learning the origin points, was to identify the line that would run through them. Highly recommend to give some extra time to studying the oblique in the back. It helped me with drawing the lower back muscles. You might find it useful to study individual ribs. Especially the 12th. When looking at the 3D Model: Male Rib Cage, the 12 ribs seem to attatch to the spine halfway between the sternum and the bottom of the ribcage. Hope this helps :)