07-23-2015, 05:26 AM
Adam - I'm not sure how well you know your landmarks. You didn't even mark the sternum... Not trying to be a dick but look at our resource section. There is a document that shows all the skeletal landmarks. Don't rely on what you "know" because doing so means you are preventing yourself from learning what you do not know.
I'd strongly advice any student to avoid any gesture or quick block in when seriously drawing the figure. In the words of Solomon J. Solomon "I thoroughly disapprove of what is understood by the "blocking in" of the whole figure or object that is commonly practiced. The followers of this method begin by putting a series of hurried lines on the paper, with the object of seizing the pose and suggesting the proportions of the model.
Nothing could be more unsound, especially in the case of the beginner. The moral influence of our first stated impressions, hurried and ill-considered as they thus must be, is so great that we never entirely free ourselves from it, and the student who begins his work without due deliberation spends most of his time at the subsequent sittings in correcting the faults of his first hurried sketch."
Gesture drawings should be just that, gesture drawings. When trying to learn something, starting vague just means that you need to be correcting your mistakes while at the same time trying to learn other things. If you can create an accurate outline drawing using the sight size method, studying anatomy after that point becomes much easier.
Watts atelier is one of the fringe atelier when it comes to "academic art". They do not appear to follow either the French or Russian academic process that most ateliers use and I think it's important to take what they say with a bit of salt. The Reilly method is fine to learn but it should be used when it is useful. It should never dictate your drawing and this is something I see happening all the time.
This isn't all that relevant to anatomy so I'd prefer to keep it out of the group. The subject of figure drawing goes into your sketchbook. If you want to do écorché drawings, you're welcome to post them here but I do not want to see construction drawings, gesture drawings or figure drawings. This is a place for anatomy.
I'd strongly advice any student to avoid any gesture or quick block in when seriously drawing the figure. In the words of Solomon J. Solomon "I thoroughly disapprove of what is understood by the "blocking in" of the whole figure or object that is commonly practiced. The followers of this method begin by putting a series of hurried lines on the paper, with the object of seizing the pose and suggesting the proportions of the model.
Nothing could be more unsound, especially in the case of the beginner. The moral influence of our first stated impressions, hurried and ill-considered as they thus must be, is so great that we never entirely free ourselves from it, and the student who begins his work without due deliberation spends most of his time at the subsequent sittings in correcting the faults of his first hurried sketch."
Gesture drawings should be just that, gesture drawings. When trying to learn something, starting vague just means that you need to be correcting your mistakes while at the same time trying to learn other things. If you can create an accurate outline drawing using the sight size method, studying anatomy after that point becomes much easier.
Watts atelier is one of the fringe atelier when it comes to "academic art". They do not appear to follow either the French or Russian academic process that most ateliers use and I think it's important to take what they say with a bit of salt. The Reilly method is fine to learn but it should be used when it is useful. It should never dictate your drawing and this is something I see happening all the time.
This isn't all that relevant to anatomy so I'd prefer to keep it out of the group. The subject of figure drawing goes into your sketchbook. If you want to do écorché drawings, you're welcome to post them here but I do not want to see construction drawings, gesture drawings or figure drawings. This is a place for anatomy.
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