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My project in Dynamic Figure Drawing course
My project in Dynamic Figure Drawing course
by Tina M. Tepe @hotpaletteartworks
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Shane, Thank you so much for this course, I enjoyed every minute! It's sized at 24x18". I was rushing to get hands in before the 4 hour mark, as I'm sure you can tell. Thank you for any feedback.
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Hello!
First of all thank you so much for taking my course! I am very happy that you enjoyed everything.
Great choice of pose! He's full of tension and I must say a pose like this in 4 hours is a lot to do (2 hands, plus all that wonderful back anatomy). I'm glad you tried something so challenging! I'm sure the time seemed to fly by, right?!
You did a very good job with the head - torso - pelvis proportions.
There are a few other proportions that need adjusting though: the wrist and hand on his head are a bit too small (add some thickness to the wrist, and the hand would just need to get bigger overall); the neck is a bit too thin (you can just add a bit more width on both sides), and the right humerus just a bit too long (add a bit more thickness to the upper forearm mass right at the bend in the elbow: this will not only thicken his forearm (a good thing) but also shorten the humerus a bit).
Your overall value range is pretty good, but I'm wondering if you couldn't have gone darker in his hair. Did you really press hard on your 2B in his hair? If you can get his hair darker, it will create value contrast with the shadows on the figure (like in the photo of the model).
In your photo reference nature threw a pretty tricky trap at you: the left buttocks. Visually it appears quite light, but this is due to the fact that the light shape is juxtaposed by some very dark shadows and dark lights. In reality the light shape on the butt is quite a bit darker than in your drawing, but so is the hand and forearm. Squint your eyes and notice how on his right arm the upper arm is quite light (like you have in your drawing), then the forearm gets darker, and the hand (with the exception of the thumb and thenar eminence) gets just a touch darker still. All of these small value steps make the forms of his arm turn correctly. And if you make these changes to his arm, then you will see that the left buttocks gets darker also.
The same is true of his left arm: the deltoid and bicep should be darker, as well as most of the forearm (you would see this better if you could darken his hair a lot).
You did a nice job on the contour of the figure. I can see you're using a system where the up planes are lighter lines and the down planes are darker; it creates a nice, sculpted touch to the drawing.
Lastly, I would get you to soften just a bit some of his internal forms: the furrow of the spine in his upper back is too hard-edged on the left side, and I would also soften a couple of his skin folds in his lower back so as to create more variety there.
I hope these comments help not only for this drawing but for your future work as well!
Keep up the good work!
@shane_wolf Thanks so much for your in-depth insight. I appreciate your comments and encouragement.
@hotpaletteartworks My pleasure!! : )
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