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Examples of applying landmarks to your drawing.
Seems like there doesn't seem to be a need to know how to draw a skeleton well. Just simplify it enough to get the landmarks right. Am I understanding this right?
I noticed that I had to draw larger than I was used to in order to have room for everything in these demos.
My attempt at the post from the video. I think I need more practice on the box shape for the wrists (radius and ulna) but I look forward to trying this on other poses. Thinking about the muscles and these landmarks in particular really does have a positive effect on my observation and proportion skills in my opinion.
I did a draw along and tried it on a back reference picture from the Back Anatomy reference pack. I referenced the Watts Atelier Instructors Companion Workbook. Although the workbook shows rhythms this course helped make sense of the landmarks and why they are used.
My Draw Along and attempt with a reference to draw the landmarks of the back! I first drew the gesture then tried to identify the same landmarks as the ones Stan drew.
Before and alongside watching the video. After gesture course the knowledge from anatomy course will definitely improve the understanding of a human body and gesture
My first of many attempts. I am a complete beginner to figures, and found the spotting of forms pretty tough, especially around the scapula. I also had no idea how some of the forms would distort so I tried to act out the poses and take my best guess from there. Any feedback is appreciated, thanks!
My notes. Definitely a few things I need to pay more attention to when doing my daily studies.
Learning landmarks is fun for me! I want to practice more. The classes of Prokopenko-san help me a lot. Thank you so much for teaching useful information!
Here are a few of my attempts for female landmarks from the back and the draw along for the video. I had a tough time finding the deltoid and trapezius muscles since they aren't super pronounced unless flexing. Any critiques are welcome as always!
I would say some of the things in this drawing are working well, you are clearly looking at the forms and trying to assess where the landmarks are, but also the work is a little messy. For example the head is not a perfect circle like you've indicated here, the scapula and soulders are a bit off. Try to watch the video again and really understand what bumps and indicators on the photograph are leading Stan to seeing the underlying structure of the scapula. Your overall proportions and gesture are not bad! I would just try to focus a little bit more on mark making, line quality and accuracy! Keep it up!
My submission for the assignment: landmarks (back)
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Nice study!
Might be attempting too much here - using both boxes AND landmarks on a new pose. It seems the boxes have more to do with the gesture and the landmarks more to do with the anatomy...true.
I don't think you are taking on "too much" by placing the boxes in here. There are a lot of great reasons to find the box. But to give a little bit of my personal experience with boxes, they are only helpful when placed in the correct position. So for example, the top corners of the box representing the hips should perfectly align with the PSIS and ASIS. this can be challenging to do from a photograph, but not impossible, We can often see at least some indication of the PSIS points or ASIS points, but usually not both so we have to go on the tip and tilt of the trochanter to accurately assess the side we can not see. The bottom of the box for the hips will align with the pubis and the triangle of the sacrum can point us in the right direction. This can be challenging but a really great exercise in seeing beneath the skin and accurately finding those landmarks so that you can place those boxes in the right place. For the ribcage, you can find the 10th rib with pokes out on the left of the model on the second photograph in your reference, and you can use the manubrium (if seeing the front of the model) to judge the tilt. I don't know of an accurate way to judge the top of the box on a model from the back. potentially at the 7th cervical vertebrae?
I find these boxes super difficult to place in accurately, but what they can do is help you understand what planes of the body we are seeing.
