Le corpus humain et grandeur naturelle planches coloriées et superposées, avec texte explicatif- Julien Bouglé, 1899.
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forgive my handwriting I HOPE THIS HELPS A LITTLE BC IM NOT RLY SURE IF IT MAKES SENSE also here are some pics of rl backs which you can also locate via google 1,2,3,4,5(nsfw bc butt)
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I have a painter-friend who is gearing up to do a major work with figures, but she feels a bit rusty about painting a model in all his or her glory. To help prepare herself, she's set up a series of life-drawing sessions so that she can spend a bit of time drawing models before tackling her actual subject. I thought it was a really good idea, but I was super intimidated when she brought up the idea of me coming along and drawing, even though there will be several other people there sketching as well.
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This time, I'm going in with a game plan that includes sticking to three life drawing tips, and here they are:
Start with the gesture. I always feel my eyes bulge out and careen crazily back and forth when I get in front of a model, like I need to catch every nuance or else utter failure is assured. Not true. I plan to step back, take a deep breath, and start with capturing the gesture of the model, the full-body pose, before doing anything else in my sketchbook.
Another of my life-drawing lessons is to focus on proportion. If I can get the head to be the correct size relative to the torso, arms, and legs, then I will know that I am in pretty good shape.
I also plan not to sink into the quicksand of adding too much detail too soon. In my first session, all I want to do is put down simple lines and a basic application of light and shadow on the form. I don't need to go much beyond that, and if I find myself reaching for those finer details I hope a little alarm will go off in my head. Then I'll know to go back and check my proportions, because I bet there is something I am skimming over.
For more chances to harness the power of life drawing into finished paintings in oil and pastel, look into the guide, Paint Like Degas. It focuses solely on Degas' drawing and painting approaches and includes comprehensive art instruction on the subject. Enjoy!
From the time I started drawing, I have had a constant battle with myself over how to start. For years I have been looking for the one right way to sketch in a composition or block-in an underpainting. Lately, and with the help of my Studio Incamminati instructors, I have learned that there are several ways to start, and that none of these is "the way" but one of many tools in the toolbox. What a relief!
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A series of print ads and posters art directed by Hamburg based designer, Andreas Haase. The ads were created to promote the Prometheus atlases published by, my favorite creator of anatomy and medical texts, Thieme. They use professional photographs of real medical students overlayed medical illustrations from the atlases. This is first for Prometheus in terms of promoting their atlases in a more artistic way. For them the message is "Beautiful Learning" achieved through stunning and clear medical illustration.
And while this work very much resembles that of Danny Quirk, I do like the photography and the fact that these are real medical students. I should have gone to medical school, how yowza!
For more by Andreas Haase visit hellogoodbye.de. And if you're an artist interested in learning anatomy or a medical student, definitely check out Thieme's atlases. They're what got me through gross anatomy in grad school!
Photography by: Anna Rosa Krau
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When I was the one in charge of my infant cousin, I would always scramble frantically for ways to keep him entertained. Toys, sounds, and funny faces—I tried everything. But the most memorable way I kept him happy was by plopping him in front of a mirror.
He'd move, and react to seeing himself move, and get excited, clap and chuckle, and then his eyes would get really big to see all that happen right in front of him and he'd get excited all over again.
I keep his reaction in mind as I constantly try to figure out how to draw people—getting to a place where drawing faces and expressions and body positions is exciting and interesting every time. Because it seems like a real shame that there are so many possible ways of drawing people and yet we often see or use only slight variations in a few poses over and over again.
We've got to learn to push the boundaries in our art, even if it means the final product isn't a resounding success. Don't get derailed by the idea of presenting perfection and symmetry. I put a much higher value on close inspection and drawing people as individuals. It is fun, real, and rewarding.
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And drawing faces and figures with excitement and freshness of vision usually starts with knowing how to draw a person's form and features. Oil Painting Portraits the Easy Way, Watercolor Portraits the Easy Way and Pastel Portraits the Easy Way are a few of my favorite video guides and seem custom-made for this kind of artistic growth no matter the medium you work with. You'll find a professional portraitist's best advice, portrait know-how, the essentials on how to craft your skills, and inspiration from an artist whose work stands out for its uniqueness and point of view. Enjoy!
P.S. If you want to see a great demonstration of drawing the eyes, check out our newest free instructional video from artist David Kassan.
the struggle is real
Tiniest foot tutorial. Can add toes or just have shoe. Is good. Have day.
As an artist, you'll have to draw turned heads countless times. But when the head is turned, drawing the far eye poses a special challenge. This is because we must foreshorten that eye more than we're used to, and because we're tempted to shape it like the near eye, which is less foreshortened. Therefore, it's useful to practice drawing the far eye by itself, without the near eye to throw you off. Print these sheets, draw the eyes, and you'll save yourself great difficulty later.
Note that all of these eyes are facing our left. You'll need to practice right-facing eyes as well, so flop the sheets in Photoshop, print them again, and draw those also.
Illustration for Arrow Shirt advertisement, JC Leyendecker
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I think regardless of style or personality, your character should run properly. Awkward run ruins everything.
Don't believe me? Try running the wrong way, see how far that gets you.
For clarity's sake: the difference between right and wrong here is the arms. Your arms travel opposite your legs.
nidotortle said:tips on drawing from different perspectives or trying to draw specific poses? I need help pls ;-;when it comes to specific poses I try to first draw the most basic shapes and movement lines and then gradually go into more and more details, like so:
if you have difficulties with perspective, try drawing a perspective grid first:
it's nothing different than tips from other artists, but I hope it helped a little ;u;
i like necks a lot yeh lets talk about necks!!! u gotta know what's going on in there to draw necks, here's a fairly simple run down.
Also a lot (most all) of my anatomy knowledge comes from taking Scott Eaton's anatomy for artists course. If you have a chance/money to take it, it's really great.
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