2D Toolkit: Anatomy Recap

 2D Toolkit: Anatomy Recap

For this session, we recapped body anatomy, as well as looked at some new ways of drawing bodies more accurately. Some key notes I took this lesson to help me were as follows:

  • Measure people in arbitrary measurements - head
  • elbow is located at bottom of the ribcage
  • hand is located at mid thigh
  • "Contrapposto" - means counter posed. Has rhythm, opposed angles and is dynamic. use it in all poses to make them look more alive.
  • observational drawing - can do it from model or photo. both are good.
  • to draw from imagination, a good understanding of dynamic posture is needed. 
To start with, I picked a pose that would test my knowledge of moving the body model around, and looking at it from a different angle and perspective.

Due to the suit jacket, it was hard to figure out where exactly the shoulder originates from. For this, I tried to line it up with the shoulder I couldn't see as much. I think this worked well, but in hindsight the closer shoulder should've been higher up. Using curved lines to more accurately depict the position of the legs works much more well for a more accurate pose.
Moving onto my next try at the anatomy from this picture, I think I did a good job in terms of making the pose look more believable and make sense anatomically. However, one issue here is that the back is too far back from the original image. Another issue is a habit of mine, and that is chicken scratches. This in a informational drawing like this means a loss of the information which is a bad thing.
Next I Wanted to try something more complex, and something that would test my ability of putting anatomy "in motion". I used the top two people to draw around.
I made an effort to stop chicken scratching as much as I could to avoid losing any information when it comes to the second drawing. I also did the same thing as last time - using different colours for different parts of the body. I also wanted to try and change something about their poses so I could test how reposing different parts of the body works in perspective.
This is what I ended up with. Overall, I am pretty happy with how this turned out. The efforts I made to not use chicken scratches as much as I did before paid off as I was able to read the information a lot better. I also think the reposing of the leg of the guy kicking was ok, but I think this is something I need to practice a lot more before it looks realistic. Another issue is that the guy on the right has his legs too close together, which looks awkward, and his arm facing the camera is too long. His pelvis is also too large. Going away from this lesson, I plan to practice proportions.










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