Illustration for Comics: Anatomy of a Superhero
Proportions of the idealized human figure
A course by Ariel Olivetti , Illustrator and Comic Book Artist
Learn to draw the skeleton, muscles, and poses to convey the true power of your characters
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About the video: Proportions of the idealized human figure
Overview
“Here we will see in detail how an idealized human being with eight heads is constructed.”
In this video lesson Ariel Olivetti addresses the topic: Proportions of the idealized human figure, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration for Comics: Anatomy of a Superhero. Learn to draw the skeleton, muscles, and poses to convey the true power of your characters.
Partial transcription of the video
“Proportions of the idealized figure In this lesson, I'll show you the proportions of the ideal human figure measuring eight heads. Let's look at how the different proportions relate to each other and how to use the head, which is a unit of measure, within the body and different parts of the body. This will help us a lot to determine if the arms are too long, or the legs are too short... It's easy to make these mistakes at the beginning of one's career. So let's start... The first thing we'll draw is a head. This is our unit of measure. Let's use the ruler to help us, and let's subdivide it ...”
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Course summary for: Illustration for Comics: Anatomy of a Superhero
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Category
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Areas
Character Design, Comic, Figure Drawing, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration
A course by Ariel Olivetti
Ariel Olivetti was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and studied graphic design at the University of Buenos Aires. It was his passion for drawing the human figure and creating characters that led him to design covers for the prestigious Argentine comic magazine FIERRO in the 90s as well as to cocreate the comic strip El Cazador. He has been working as a comic book artist and illustrator for more than 25 years, publishing in different editorial magazines such as Dark Horse, Valiant, Sideshow, MARVEL, DC Comics and Upper Deck.
His first work for the United States market was for Marvel Comics with The Last Avengers Story, and later for titles like Daredevil and X-Men. He has also collaborated on a limited DC series called Space Ghost. Other titles he has worked on include: Sabretooth and Mystique (1996), Alpha Flight (1997) and What If? (1997) for Marvel; and JLA: Paradise Lost (1998), Haven: The Broken City (2002), Green Lantern (2003) and Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight (2006) for DC.
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