Anatomy tinkering, paintover please?

[Abacus]

I'm so woefully out of practice... could I get a paintover, before and after please? Keep it messy, I'd like to see how your strokes move along the curves of the body.

(I use contours and flow rather than straight out memorization of structures, I remember things best as they work together)

Thanks ahead of time!

http://akbar.marlboro.edu/~jmistry/conceptartorg/anatomy/anatomytrial02.16.06.jpg

[cam]

There's not much people can crit there. No arms, no feet, no joints, it's pretty much just a silhouette, and a blurry one at that.
Put some more effort into what you're posting before expecting someone to put their effort into doing you a paintover.
Do you have any pencil drawings you'd like to show? It would probably give people a better idea of where you're at with anatomy.

[Abacus]

Hmm... I understand what your saying... I've got alot of sketches, lifestudies and the so on, but it's really not worth showing. I'm having a really difficult time being happy with my progress in figure drawing (I've been hacking at it pretty much non-stop since about a year ago).

Every time I pick it up again, it's with an almost completely new method each time slowly getting more comfortable, but it's more or less from scratch.

I'm weird. (I used to confound my art teachers because my method evolved so... differently)

Anyways, what I was hoping for was to see someone else's take on the proportions I'm trying to figure out. I think that if I can see the form and flow of the main part of the body (torso into upper chest, neck, etc) the extremeties will make a little more sense to me.

What you see above is actually about three or four paintovers of a line sketch, slowly refined and tested, etc etc...

Just hoping that someone might humor my eccentricity >.>

(thanks for the reply though)

[Fl3wk]

Maybe your style isn't suited to realistic representations. Maybe try making a full on painting with this style and then post and ask what people think, they might like the style.

[nafa]

Perhaps you should post some line drawings which you personally are happy with. If your skill level is such that you cannot produce satisfactory sketches, it stands to reason that no painting/rendering method will produce results that satisfy you.

[Abacus]

Maybe your style isn't suited to realistic representations. Maybe try making a full on painting with this style and then post and ask what people think, they might like the style.


...le sigh. You're probably right, and I probably know you're right too. I'm just stubborn, obstinant, and too damned enamored with the awesome quality of the realistic stuff that people post daily on these forums.

Hee. I left art school for a reason, I guess, maybe I should stop asking art majors for advice and just go with what I started on before I got to college and got all confused about my methods and stuff.

/me is trapped inside teh box.


(You haven't seen the last of me... gimmie a bit, I'll have something decent to show y'alls.)

Back to the drawing board.

[grenappels]

(I use contours and flow rather than straight out memorization of structures, I remember things best as they work together)

i'm a novice to anatomy myself, but i'm not sure you can use contours and flow RATHER than knowing the structures... to enhance the artistic quality of your figure to more than just a medical illustration, contours and flow are important, but you need to know the structure in order to convey your subject (the human figure) to begin with. Same with remembering things best as they work together. I agree, knowing how things work together is a very helpful thing, but you need to know what the things are (bones, ligaments, muscles, etc.) to begin with. it's like trying to write poetry in greek without memorizing the words of the language first (to use a much more extreme analogy). But it's not a bad thing. Memorizing the structure and parts is more fun than you would think :).

[Abacus]

Aye, I agree with you there, unfortunately, my mind seems to work in such a way that I need to learn the structure and muscles simultaneously with the contours and flow, otherwise they're just arbetrary little orby things on a non-sense framework.

It's a real bother being stuck with a predominantly gestalt brain with little patience for details... Top down archetecture sucks.