09-23-2015, 04:03 PM
Hey book! Nice studies! n___n Because you mentioned about sketch structure on my page, I just wanted to pop by and say, the anatomy sketches you do have lots of good structure. As long as you apply what you're learning in those studies and maintain the draw-through structures on your other sketches, they'll always look solid. c:
There's little lineweight tricks that help to make it feel constructed, too, like darkening it at the connection + bottom. It's stuff that comes naturally when you're working from reference, but really sells imaginative work!
Also, on your hands... you seem to have a tendency to make all of your fingers the same length, especially when they're in perspective against each other. try to be mindful of their variant lengths. Also, pay attention to the slight curve in the construction of the hand - even at the top. Right now you're using primarily a flat box, so the top of your hands are losing some of the anatomical feeling of a hand.
Something that's helpful to think about for the "gesture" of the hand is that the fingers always move in arcs - try to notice how the joints form arcs as they go across the knuckles; this will give your hands a lot of beauty. Also, just play around with your own hand and watch how as your hand moves, you will tend to move your whole hand in gradient "arcs" while changing positions, so this is a really definitive point to hand gesture in general.
I don't see any forward fist drawings in this set, so just as an additional note I'll put in that because of how the tendons come in and meet at the wrist, when the forearm "flexes" and the fingers come inward, they come in to angle towards the middle finger (because the middle finger has the only tendon that goes straight up, and the rest branch to meet the fingers.) So when we close our hand, the fingers draw in to the center of the middle finger, and when they extend, the middle finger goes straight and the other fingers flay out.
The thumb is the only digit that has free movement that does not effect the other fingers, so while doing a hand "gesture" you can basically do the palm, draw in the thumb, and then make the arcs that indicate how the other fingers are moving; because they will always move in connected arcs.
I hope that helps! These are some of the things I find helpful when thinking about hands. n_n Keep up the good work, like Rhasda said the arm breakdowns you have going are quite nice.
There's little lineweight tricks that help to make it feel constructed, too, like darkening it at the connection + bottom. It's stuff that comes naturally when you're working from reference, but really sells imaginative work!
Also, on your hands... you seem to have a tendency to make all of your fingers the same length, especially when they're in perspective against each other. try to be mindful of their variant lengths. Also, pay attention to the slight curve in the construction of the hand - even at the top. Right now you're using primarily a flat box, so the top of your hands are losing some of the anatomical feeling of a hand.
Something that's helpful to think about for the "gesture" of the hand is that the fingers always move in arcs - try to notice how the joints form arcs as they go across the knuckles; this will give your hands a lot of beauty. Also, just play around with your own hand and watch how as your hand moves, you will tend to move your whole hand in gradient "arcs" while changing positions, so this is a really definitive point to hand gesture in general.
I don't see any forward fist drawings in this set, so just as an additional note I'll put in that because of how the tendons come in and meet at the wrist, when the forearm "flexes" and the fingers come inward, they come in to angle towards the middle finger (because the middle finger has the only tendon that goes straight up, and the rest branch to meet the fingers.) So when we close our hand, the fingers draw in to the center of the middle finger, and when they extend, the middle finger goes straight and the other fingers flay out.
The thumb is the only digit that has free movement that does not effect the other fingers, so while doing a hand "gesture" you can basically do the palm, draw in the thumb, and then make the arcs that indicate how the other fingers are moving; because they will always move in connected arcs.
I hope that helps! These are some of the things I find helpful when thinking about hands. n_n Keep up the good work, like Rhasda said the arm breakdowns you have going are quite nice.