Color/Figure study (nudity)

[Grooveholmes]

http://www.joshball.com/imagedump/G2.jpg

[Grooveholmes]

http://www.joshball.com/imagedump/G3.jpg
this is too damn dark for most peoples monitors i know,, but i enjoy the tone.

[Grooveholmes]

http://www.joshball.com/imagedump/G4.jpg
Here's another direction....

Please, stand up and look at it from about 12 feet away and its not so bad.

[davi]

the size of the arms do not match the size of the body, if you used a reference(which i'm guessing you did), you didn't take a step back and measure like you would(should) in life drawing.

It stands out the most with the connection of the forearm and bicep

please keep working on this and experimenting!

[davi]

sweet lord you updated awhile i was posting a reply, great job on the last one man, the connection of the forearm still is bulky try to work on that alittle.

keep it up man
this last update blew me away

[levitateme]

I think your pics are fantastic , i like the 1st, and 3rd the most, the second one is just to dark on my monitor is all. but there all fantastic pics. i personally think that the arms look great.

[brasshorsekiller]

http://www.brokeneasel.com/brasshorse/G4.jpg

Ok, here's a cruddy 5 minute paintover. I just shortened her arms and tried (pretty unsucessfully) to make the arms cross eachother better. It's such an awkward/complicated pose to tackle, but I think you're really on track so far. Keep working on it bud. :)

[Erik]

Something seems funny with the shoulder/breast area to me. Might be me though ;-) gotta train that anatomy

I agree about the arm/forearm being a bit weird too. I think brasehorsekiller did improve it. Also the shadow he added below the foreground arm on the background arm helps to read the piece better.

The color choice works great! I also like the face and how in areas the background is used to silhouette against the blue-green. Does work in a little confusion about foreground and beackground but it works.

Cool picture

[zeroe]

love the sktechy feel of the first one. apart from that great job. what picture did you use as reference?

[I.was.ink]

I like this very much, and its great to see your process. but just like erik mentioned the shoulder area, it seems a little weird to me to. I think its cuz the deltoid isn't connecting properly to the body. I think we could help you out a lot more if you showed us the pic btw.

I like your coloring job so far and I want to see you finish it, so --onward ho!--

Keep us posted.

[sebastianbulow]

great colouring job on the last one, am having some trouble with "muddyness" on my last few attempts, this on the other hand is looking really nice. keep it up.

[Irate Customer]

I really like the last piece. My only concern is the light color on her elbow, it is a little to "harsh", and interrupts the fantastic softness to the piece. Very sensual work.

Irate

[gekitsu]

i think i found the main anatomy issue:

when moving the shoulder joint forward, the shoulder blade follows.
so, you should have a combination of shoulder blade and latissimus dorsi (i think ;)) that should connect to the arm, not just setting the arm cleanly onto an armpit section that indicates the shoulder joint not being moved forward.
argh, i guess i have to sketch this out...

the colors are great! as davi said... the third one blasts. so fleshy that it almost becomes a tangible sensation.

brb with sketch

[gekitsu]

okay, sketch completed :)

it's still a bit strange but i think we got a bit closer in terms of that anatomy problem.

http://www.polycount.com/cottages/gekitsu/pimp/g4op.jpg

sorry for the crappy compression, i trusted in painter's jpg compression abilities...

okay... the one thing i changed is the shoulder blade thing: i added the shoulder blade and the muscle above it (it really is the latissimus dorsi), that forms the rear wand of the armpit.
when i had done this, another issue struck me:
when the rear wand of the armpit comes forward, the front wand, the breast muscle (pectoralis major) plus breast would have to follow, too.
so i set the outer border of the breast a bit more forward. nipple placement etcetera needs a bit of tweaking now. :)

[Erik]

I get the impression that (although it is improvement imo) the left (for her) arm is now intersecting with the breast.

Is the rear armpit not higher than the front one in this pose (trying in front of mirror, although i have no breasts) ;-)

[behemot5]

i like the way you render volumes and colors