Spine Assignment Example 11-19 - Draw Models
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Spine Assignment Example 11-19 - Draw Models
Lesson by Stan Prokopenko in Anatomy of the Human Body
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In this video I will show you the proper way to practice drawing the spine from a model.
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Samuel Parker
1mo
Here are my model referenced spines :)

Xan Padilla
1mo
Here are my last attempts of each picture, at the beginning I found myself struggling to do the curve of the spine without having to trace it, by the end I felt a little more confident with the way I did the spine. Also any feedback is greatly appreciated!

himatako
19d
Looking great!
Mathias Ragnarsson
2mo
Difficult, but helpful. One of the key take-aways from this is that the thoracic spine is very stiff and doesn’t bend a lot. Which on the other hand makes it difficult to figure out when the model twists or bends, since it then looks like it is flexible. Any feedback is welcome.
Peter Tinkler
3mo
This was tricky to saw the least. I did my studies, then watched the videos, taking note of where I went wrong. I seem to be ok with the structure and placement of the cranium and ribcage (generally), but it's the pelvis area that caused me the most uncertainty. I think in a couple of them my ribcage is too far from the pelvis?

nongthimay31797
6mo
I'm done with this lesson, so proud of my self :D

hakunanase
6mo
A good reason to be proud of!
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Nylz
6mo
Assignment complete :D
Gabriele Tambini
6mo
I did a few spines.
The perspective of some ellipses is very off, I'll have to work on that.
Maayan
6mo
This assignment was super challenging at first, but drawing the robo beans on the side and watching the critique video helped me a lot!
Julia
6mo
Beautiful spines 10/10, the bend mamma mia!
Sandra Süsser
7mo
Spine analysis assignment complete :)
David Gutmann
7mo
those look fine to me. You got the shape of the rip cage and pelvis and know how to rotate them in space.
What I noticed is that in Pic 1 top right corner example 3 seems to have a falsely rotated rib cage. If you look at the pose you can see that the model turns slightly to the right wich means the spine should move to the left. Yours howerver is rotated to the right.
You have also stiffened the pose in pic one example one. The rib cage placement seem to be alright but the angle at wich it connects to the pelvis is very close to being vertical in your drawing while the refrence is way more aslant.
angiespice
11mo
Initial guesses and correction referring to examples! critics welcome

David Furness
11mo
Hi All, would appreciate any feedback for my example 11-19 submissions. Thanks for your time!

Ricky De La Cruz
11mo
That Jazz music is an abomination

Ari
1yr
Assignment for drawing models ^-^
Rob Montgomery
1yr
Very nice assignment, you have great line control and form construction. My notes would be that the ribcage on 16(6) does not look like the correct perspective, I think with the spine bending like that we would see the bottom plane. The head on 14 (4) seems a bit small relative to the body. Also the spine looks like its connecting in the back of the skull rather than going up into the base of the skull.
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irahc
1yr
Here are my assignments for this section of the Spine Anatomy lesson. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!
Kalin Gamble
1yr
Here are my model drawings that I made before watching Stan draw the examples. I plan to go back and redraw these again with the example video and compare how off they are. I struggle a lot with the ellipses in perspective.
Kalin Gamble
1yr
Redraw following Proko's Demo
necplusprocess
1yr
Last part of my spine assignments. left = my first attempt/right = my copy of stan's version.
Still making huge mistakes but i'm getting better. Feedback appreciated.
CHARLES DEIGHAN
1yr
Here's my final submission for the Spine Assignment. My attempt is on the right and I followed along with Stan on the left. Critiques welcomed.
Dakarai Chihwai
1yr
Oh these are very well done but the 4th one could be better. I also recommend practicing proportion and perspective but other than that, very very nice :D
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Sita Rabeling
1yr
The tracing and copying felt like cheating at first, but it's a great help for learning. In the last two I drew some of my own lines. Sorry for the wrinkly paper.

John Masterton
1yr
All ways a challenge in many ways, relationship, proportion and clean lines but putting the pencil to paper. Yah.
1yr
Great job!
- Make sure to keep the tapering from bottom to top consistent. In some of these it's a little wobbly
Keep up the good work!
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kugeltisch
1yr
Finally done, i would love to get some critique :D (i did them with a ballpoint pen)
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