Venom's SB (New)

[Venom763]

Hello fellow CA artists. This is my seccond SB, my first was never updated and I decided to make this one updated every couple days. I draw tons of life drawing and anatomy study and am trying to do some Enviroment study. Please Crit, I need all the crit i can get. Thanks :yayca:

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[Venom763]

Some quick 5 min sketches of different nude poses. Need to make more tomorrow...

[Tri_beer_gut]

Keepy up studies and practice practice practice, ill edit in a crit when i can think of a long one :/ Good luck mang.

[Oxy]

nice stuff. i would just work on more fluid motions but good progression.

[Mike Corriero]

While you want to keep gesture sketches loose you also want to keep them structured, so there is a clear definition of form. At the same time, while keeping them structured in order to show the planes and form of the anatomy, you still want to allow for free flowing smooth movement of the human form.

Always check your proportions ie; the size of the head, limbs and body in comparison to one another. The length of the legs and where things are positioned will also affect the proportions. Starting out the way you are is good, learning the basics of anatomy and not getting too detailed until you understand the form, proportions, weight and structure. You never want to guess at things, and although you may be looking at references it's still very easy to slap down some lines and details that may not really see in the photo reference. This can also refer to exaggerating or enhancing lines and anatomy that "is there" but is more subtle than how you're reproducing it.

One more thing to keep in mind when drawing the form, even if it's a quick gesture study is to think about the "weight" and "balance" of the pose. Leaning on one leg will affect how the rest of the body sits and the strain on the muscles as well as where the limbs are placed in a particular pose. You want to pay attention to how that weight affects how the figure sits on a ground plain. Grounding them on an imaginary floor will really help put the figure into a 3-dimensional space and it will help push you to study how this figures anatomy and the form of the shapes wrap around.

[BadGeometry]

"Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist" by Peck

"Constructive Anatomy" by Bridgman (though any of his books are good)

These are two books that really helped me out, and neither of them are really expensive.

Spend some more time on your drawings and heed what Mike and the vent goers said and you'll be on you way.