Anatomy...on Steroids

[Leotaku]

Hi,
I decided to do another anatomy practice pic (it's been quite a while since my last attempt...you should've seen it. I'd post it too, but I'd be embarassed by its low quality...)
http://flatface.net/~leotaku/anatomy.jpg
I know it's quite muscular, but I have this superhero complex in my head that makes me exaggerate forms, unless I'm not supposed to, like for school or something. I also have a tendency to draw a bit too big to fit the whole body on the page. Now THAT'S a problem...

Anyway, please C&C
:)

EDIT:...My server suddenly seems to be going quite slow...I dunno if the pic will show up. I checked it before I posted, now it's not showing up in the topic though :(

[helix7]

I think it's a really good study. The muscles are really exaggerated, but you have a pretty good sense of realistic muscle shape and position. It's easy to slip into the football-shaped muscle style of sketching, and this sort of practice reinforces true muscle shape. Alot of people forget that muscles don't always begin where another ends, but rather they overlap in some places.

[Leotaku]

Thanks for replying, helix7. :)
I hope the lack of response to this topic is due to the fact that maybe there isn't too much wrong with it to bother posting.:emb:

[Pigeon]

what's your reference?

[Erik Hageman]

yeah i have problems with drawing too big for my sketchbook, always have heads going off the top. it helps me to loosely and lightly sketch in an oval an inch or two from the edge of the paper. draw in there, and when you naturally go out, you're still on. just dont get uptight about making it some rectangle exactly the same proportion as the paper...

[Leotaku]

Originally posted by Pigeon
what's your reference?
Just some book called "Drawing: The creative process".
Erik: Thanks for the advice.

[Rohan]

I quite agree with much of helix's commentary. It's a good attempt. I would say that the larger proportions are off from a traditional perspective. Try starting out even simpler, and with light lines arrange the larger masses of muscle on your paper where they feel right, and look proportionally correct, before going in with bold lines and muscle detail. that might help with your problem of taking the whole page up too soon too, as you can assess the drawing as a whole before concentrating on the individual parts.

Study your own body in a mirror for this if you can. You don't need to be a well-developed athlete, or body builder to study yours, or other's own basic human proportions. then you can exaggerate and emphasize as you please. hope this helps

[battlemonkey]

same thing as everyone else has said. the part that bothers me is his crotch/groin area~... the way his legs are rubbin against each other would be smashin his nuts. and his knees, the way they come together like that, looks as if his he's been hit in the groin with a football. pick up some muslce magazines, they help a lot with buffed out characters.
good job, keep it up~
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