03-25-2024, 05:15 AM
Here are some examples from past students who did the anatomy/figure studies based on my suggestion of different approaches. It doesn't mean you have specific problems that need to be addressed by these, but they're just different approaches that are helpful to anyone doing anatomy/figure studies.
This is what I meant by superimposed. You draw over photos of real people and superimpose the structure on top, which helps deepen your understanding of why the body looks the way it does in real life in that specific pose.
This is an example of detailed segmentation (kinda looks like a 3D model's wireframe). This is helpful because too often when we study anatomy we aren't totally sure of the exact level of volume each muscle or bone protrusion is supposed to have, so we draw in ways that obscure or gloss over those details and never truly learn them. With detailed segmentations, you can't gloss over any detail and you also have to get the perspective correct with the segmentations, so this forces you to know the exact orientation of each muscle and how much they bulge out from any angle.
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These are examples of doing multiple approaches with a reference. Structural study, segmentations, and WYSIWYG rendering. We already know what the first two approaches are for, so that leaves the WYSIWYG, which is to render how a figure is supposed to look with skin over the bones, muscles, and a layer of fat, with the skin creases, the fat obscuring some detailes, and the how the surface quality reflects light. This one is more important than most people realize because too often artists who only do anatomy/figure sketches and drawings will end up rendering the figures like body builders' cadavers, with way too much deeply carved definition that are awkwardly unnatural looking.
This is what I meant by superimposed. You draw over photos of real people and superimpose the structure on top, which helps deepen your understanding of why the body looks the way it does in real life in that specific pose.
This is an example of detailed segmentation (kinda looks like a 3D model's wireframe). This is helpful because too often when we study anatomy we aren't totally sure of the exact level of volume each muscle or bone protrusion is supposed to have, so we draw in ways that obscure or gloss over those details and never truly learn them. With detailed segmentations, you can't gloss over any detail and you also have to get the perspective correct with the segmentations, so this forces you to know the exact orientation of each muscle and how much they bulge out from any angle.
These are examples of doing multiple approaches with a reference. Structural study, segmentations, and WYSIWYG rendering. We already know what the first two approaches are for, so that leaves the WYSIWYG, which is to render how a figure is supposed to look with skin over the bones, muscles, and a layer of fat, with the skin creases, the fat obscuring some detailes, and the how the surface quality reflects light. This one is more important than most people realize because too often artists who only do anatomy/figure sketches and drawings will end up rendering the figures like body builders' cadavers, with way too much deeply carved definition that are awkwardly unnatural looking.