Anatomy Reference Practice Thread *SFW with nudity*

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Originally Posted by Shindoutou

You did well on that sketch, Demonfyre!

Thanks for all the pointers, Toast! It was really a quick sketch, this time I'm taking a little bit more time.
Here's what I've got for now, are the proportions any better? (for as far as you can see, since I've only drawn half a face)
http://www.mangatutorials.com/file/p...=4fdf97f14adb9

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It is definately looking a lot better :D The bridge of the nose is still a bit too thick, but otherwise you're doing very well with shading, detailing, and proportions

Thanks for your reply Toast And I'm glad I'm doing the right thing with negative spaces :) didnt get enough time today to finish off the males so I'll post them up tomorrow and I'll use guidelines and negative spaces to finish them off :D

I may or may not go through these in order since I'm boring. We'll see. Did the first one in SAI.

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http://i.imgur.com/X7A6h.jpg?1

o jeez, that looks great kasey, you really did a good job with colours O:

berry nice

I don't care if you do them in order or not Kasey, as long as you keep on doing them because your practice piece really inspired me to push mine :)

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Ok, so I don't know about you guys, but I've been trying to do studies from photographs and from life since February, so what little experience I have I thought that I should share. So I'll explain my method for doing a study. It may not work for you, but I think it works well for me :)
http://www.mangatutorials.com/file/p...620-120621.png
1. I don't know about you guys, but myself I have a couple of weak personality traits. I'm lazy, proud and a perfectionist to name a few. But someone once told me that even weaknesses can be strengths if you play your cards right. So for several when I have studied for exams, the very first thing that I did was to take an exam used a previous year and sit down and try my best at it. Since I'm lazy I almost always failed this first one, but since I'm proud I also got real angry with myself and studied hard for the real thing, and since I'm a perfectionist I almost always got the highest grade. Huzzah!
Now I've found that this method also works well for drawing studies, so I begin by sitting down and do an initial drawing. As you can see, I missed on everything from figure to proportions, but I didn't notice until I compared it with the reference (I don't show this step, but it's pretty simple: since I'm doing digital I just drag and dropped the reference photo onto my canvas and dropped its opacity until I could see both layers)

2.Ok, so I'm really angry at myself now, and this helps me focus. I do an extensive analysis of the reference, measuring angles and proportions carefully as I do my sketch. This time I'm also in awe of Kasey's piece above, and I'm determined to do something that's at least equally good, so I actually measure really carefully (like every line I drew I then redrew at least 20 times lol). Then I render the forms as carefully as I can. Having a good underdrawing helps, but I'm still super happy about how the torso turned out. In the end, after screwing up on the head and face several times I just made a note that I need to study head and face next week, as I have other stuff to do today (sadly, cause this was really fun), and at that point I hadn't started hands and feet either, so I had to make even more notes on stuff to study.

3. What's the point of doing your homework if you don't learn anything? as I just mentioned I was a little short on time, I'd like to do this step more properly later. But what I want to do here is to make a general approach, because let's face it; I couldn't do anything as nice as #2 without reference, and if we could get a ref photo of everything we wouldn't need to learn how to draw. Since this is a human body I try to use the simple mannequin approach from one of Loomis' books, but I don't think I nailed it from memory. Need to look that up too.

So yeah, that's that. Again, this is just the method I like to use, and if you have any suggestions on how I could improve it.. I'd be grateful yeah :)

I, too, am an extremely lazy perfectionist. However the lazy me usually trumps the perfectionist, which angers me into doing better. : D

I really like the steps you went through however. Like you put down what you thought was the general form, really went into detail by fixing proportions/adding muscles/etc, then the generalization part was awesome and something I want to start doing. It turned out awesomely too, and you also taught me a new study habit lol. Great post!

I actually have Loomis' book right here, which I think everyone who's practicing in this thread needs to take a look at:
http://www.alexhays.com/loomis/Loomi...ure%20Draw.pdf
All of its glory in PDF format

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/.../MalePose1.jpg

I'm sure his head is too small and that im terrible at this :/ anyway here is the finished version

I have that pdf, I'm planning on leafing through it.

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http://i49.tinypic.com/11kefyp.png

Asian face(done in gb), i saw that the ear/back skull is out of place when i drew the hair (which i rushed -.-;..)
But it was good practice! i like this thread lawl.

Also i'm going to try that Rubisko, thx :D. I really have trouble grasping anatomy since i never take the time to fully UNDERSTAND. it.

I think next time i'll try to do a grayscale/colour since i still need to understand the forms it makes and stuff. But anyway, gonna go through that pfd Thanks toast.