05-05-2013, 01:27 PM
Hi HannesD, lots of cool studies going on, nice work!
I see you're making a lot of poses from imagination, I think that's awesome and you should keep going! There's a really great set of books on gesture drawing called Drawn to Life by a guy named Walt Stanchfield who taught at Disney, you might want to look into getting those, they're extremely helpful for learning how to make poses where all the body parts work together to tell the story, instead of just being there on the body.
and here are some tips from a spongebob storyboard artist, the style is much more cartoony than you're going for but the concepts might help you.
I think in your anatomy studying you may want to go back and study the skeleton for a while before learning the muscles and fleshy forms, it doesn't seem like you have a complete grasp of the forms of the bones or the ways they move. Learning all the muscles won't be very helpful if you don't know what they're built over, so it's more important to know the bones, and especially the different kinds of joints on the body and how the function. I saw a diagram next to your legs showing the knee as a ball-and-socket joint like the ankles, but if that's the way the bones were built there we'd be able to move our shins left and right instead of just forward and backwards.
Good luck with your studies! :D
I see you're making a lot of poses from imagination, I think that's awesome and you should keep going! There's a really great set of books on gesture drawing called Drawn to Life by a guy named Walt Stanchfield who taught at Disney, you might want to look into getting those, they're extremely helpful for learning how to make poses where all the body parts work together to tell the story, instead of just being there on the body.
and here are some tips from a spongebob storyboard artist, the style is much more cartoony than you're going for but the concepts might help you.
I think in your anatomy studying you may want to go back and study the skeleton for a while before learning the muscles and fleshy forms, it doesn't seem like you have a complete grasp of the forms of the bones or the ways they move. Learning all the muscles won't be very helpful if you don't know what they're built over, so it's more important to know the bones, and especially the different kinds of joints on the body and how the function. I saw a diagram next to your legs showing the knee as a ball-and-socket joint like the ankles, but if that's the way the bones were built there we'd be able to move our shins left and right instead of just forward and backwards.
Good luck with your studies! :D