Ernesto Palma
Hello there! I'm an English teacher by profession, and a pencil artist by passion!

Arthur Gellet
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10mo
So thats my work of today
Juste lemme know if you see mistakes I would apreciate as long as it is constructive
Thx
And if you know where Incould find référence for n'ose eyes and all this stuff I would taie it too
Ernesto Palma
4mo
I see great effort, Arthur! How often do you practice? It's good to get in the habit of daily drawing to improve on the hardest things like line control and proportional accuracy with eye measuring. Also, try to take your pictures with clear even lighting so we can appreciate them better. Sunlight works great! Best of luck.
5mo
Made this cheat sheet for reviewing/quizzing myself on, excluded some of the more specific terms of movement + Pertinent terms for body parts, which I'll include in a follow up post.
5mo
Nice! I also like making sheets with tonnes of useful notes. Don´t forget to go over them after a few weeks and see if you wanna make improved revised notes!
5mo
Did it before looking at Stan’s demo. It’s a humbling experience — to learn how much you still have to learn.
Also, I think I need to upgrade my paper. It was really fighting against the Conte pencil.
5mo
That´s a great thing about practice, it shows you what you need to improve, so you can focus on that for the next practice and so on. If we already had all the skills developed and knowledge memorized, we wouldn´t be studying! lol I do like that you were willing to go all the way through even with difficulty, great effort bud!
Hey y'all,
This is a linocut reliefprint. (Basically means that I carved a big ol' stamp and squashed some paper into it) When I was a kid, I always used to dress up as a samurai for Halloween, so I thought it would be cool to do a skull with a kabuto helmet. Good luck everyone!
7mo
It´s bananas!!!!! So freaking cool!!! I am just mesmerized by the use of line quality and dark vs light here, just so awesome!
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7mo
I gotta say BRAVO for including the deep muscles Flexor Digitorum Longus, Flexor Hallucis Longus, Tibialis Posterior and Popliteus! When I was studying the Lower Leg Muscles Anterolateral group, these deep muscles you included with the Calves had me googling all over the place! Their tendons are seen in the foot muscles lesson and I feel are important to know for the obsessive anatomy students haha! This is why your content is Premium <3
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8mo
Awesome! I´ve been recently reviewing the Hamstring lessons and when it comes to quickly reviewing, your PDF E-books are one of the most valuable resources! I can´t wait for the Ebook on the Lower Leg! I left a comment on one of the 3D models about a muscle I believe will be important to include that is not mentioned in the video lessons, by the way.
Thank you and your team for all the hard work you people do to help us master Anatomy!
8mo
I see that the Flexor Digitorum Longus muscle is added here, which continues the form below the Soleus above it. This one along with the Flexor Hallucis Longus and others are not mentioned in other lessons. Of course I can see how they don´t really affect the form much, but I feel that the Flexor Digitorum Longus is definitely something that should be included in the lower leg muscles eBook when you make it.
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I find the arm muscles lessons really challenging overall, and I'm sure to go back to them a lot of times before getting the hang of it.
9mo
Hey there! Goo effort I see! I believe that what will help you most is simplification. Go back to square one for direction. Have you got the figure drawing course? Practice gesture and then add the anatomy on it ONLY if you feel it will carry the pose forward. Simplify and continue to practice no matter how hard it gets, take breaks too! Go enjoy life! Come back with a fresh mind and take another crack at it! Persistence is key!
Wish you the best of luck!
10mo
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Here is my work for the Extreme Angles assignment. I decided to "box" some of the heads to make perspective a little bit easier. Please let me know how I can improve!
10mo
How are you? I´m not sure if this was posted minutes or months ago. I see a struggle with convincingly making a sphere and attaching a plane for the face. What will help you is the youtube videos by Stan, where he shows the way Perspective applies to the head. It took me MONTHS to get Perspective into my subconscious BUT there are tonnes of good books on it you can download, preferrably I would recommend Marshall Vandruff and his old perspective courses as well as Ernesto Wattson and his perspective made easy books. With these fundamentals down you will have a MUCH MUCH easier time tackling something as complex as the human face. Don´t be afraid to practice at least an hour a day and give it a week or two to start really feeling it! Best of luck!!!
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10mo
This reminds me of that time in the podcast where you shared that it is hard to begin exercising but the reward is phenomenal later. Due to it being painful first, it is a virtue. When drawing, measuring takes a lot of brain power, lots of patience, and concentration. It is not fun, well maybe for certain cultures it can be, but the rewards from measuring are immense. Learning to see your mistakes and investing a good deal of time to the measurement will yield tremendous pleasure when rendering because you can just let it all flow at that point, confident that things are in the right place!
HERE LIES MY SHOULDER DRAWINGS! Thanks all for following along! I did a bunch of other sketches of the ribcage on paper but they didn't look as clean as my digital ones :) Today's video recap is up here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM_aXRfXD48 Thanks all for following along!!!
11mo
Key word here is try! It is an absurd amount of work if you do every single assignment. I can't wait to see how far your passion takes you, and hey you might set a sort of record to beat sport here lol. Best of luck!
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1yr
First portrait I work on to completion after studying the Reilly rhythms these past few weeks and of course the Portrait fundamentals course by Stan
Hello Proko, I am wondering whether you can cover the Cubital Fossa? which is that little triangular dimple located between the Biceps, Ridge muscle, and Pronator Teres. How it forms and other properties, thanks.
1yr
Thanks for bringing that up! I found that if you study the biceps, and the forearm muscles, then google some images about the Cubital Fossa, you will get pretty much all you need to know to understand that form. I wasn´t even aware of it, but after doing some googling I was enlightened. Thank you again!!!
1yr
It looks like the names are mixed up in the PDF with the Sartorius and the TFL
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1yr
Thank you Stan, for continuing to generate premium content for the anatomy course. I´m about three months in and viewing and reviewing lessons as well as the PDFs is tremendous help in tackling the monumental task of learning anatomy. Blessings for your family!
1yr
I would like to provide some feedback on the shoulder muscle videos as well as the anatomy course in general. I would say that the course could benefit with a bit of restructuring, specifically adding some advance information on any muscles that surround an area we are studying. Specifically here, what I found is, to get the most out of the lessons related to the PECTORALIS MAJOR and the shoulder muscles in general; I had to study the DELTOID on my own, and skip ahead to the DELTOID section of the Arms course.
Perhaps it would be of help to add extra review options for the surrounding muscles between certain lessons.
I honestly don´t know what the most elegant solution would be, since the very nature of the intertwining anatomical parts makes it difficult as it is, and you are surely doing an OUTSTANDING job.
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1yr
the only way I was somewhat able to get the angle I wanted was by dragging the model to the top right corner BTW. Thank you for your excellent models!
1yr
I would like to submit feedback on the rotation of the 3D models. The axis that we are allowed to rotate the model in make it difficult to tilt to a forward bending position. I hope there is an update where we can navigate the camera instead of tilting the object. Help me if the function is already there. Thank you!
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1yr
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Tried drawing ben affleck from the town poster. Dunno, doesn't look like him a lot, tho.
1yr
Hey there! If anything, it´s great practice for tonal value control. And you had fun drawing a subject you like, did you not? So take it as fun practice. If you can take a general posed Loomis head, or skull in the same position, you can use this drawing to identify what you can improve. This makes it more like deliberate practice. When you are up to it, try making the portrait again but focus on fixing the areas of improvement first, such as the general proportions, angles of alignment and so on. Great effort!!!
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Here is my Shading assignment. This drawing is the culmination of everything I learned from this course. Do you guys think I’m ready for the anatomy course?
1yr
Go for it! I see great promise in your effort. Through repeated practice you can only keep getting better. I´m studying the anatomy course alongside the figure drawing course, and even the portrait drawing one! It helps not get bored and burned out when you can jump between subjects. The time between subjects helps let the brain do its thing in the background, and when you review it all, it will surely make more sense and become more a part of your personal knowledge library. Don´t be afraid to check out other fundamentals! Of course recommend stick to something at least 20 minutes and really intentionally study it, but there is nothing wrong with mixing it up!
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