Yun-Ting’s 100 Day Challenge: Anatomy and figure drawing

[Yun-Ting Hsieh]

Dear All,

I am Yun-Ting, I started learning anatomy and figure drawing in July. In the past few weeks I have practiced this subject quite frequently and I found it very challenging but interesting.

I would like to initiate my 100 day challenge dedicated to anatomy and figure drawing as a motivation to keep improving.

I am also new to NMA so I am looking forward to learning more from all of you.

Thank you!

[Yun-Ting Hsieh]

Day 1

Muscles of front torso

[Yun-Ting Hsieh]

Day 2

Muscles of back torso

[Yun-Ting Hsieh]

Day 3

Muscles of back torso

[Yun-Ting Hsieh]

Day 4

Muscles of front torso

[tobs]

Looks good! I’m also studying anatomy for my challenge.

[iamjakeroo]

good job, Yun-Ting

by the looks of it, you’re definitely on the right track

[Christopher]

Hi Yun-Ting,

Just visually your drawings remind me of Michael Hampton’s figure drawing book which I love 😅

Critique wise I can’t say much about how accurate your anatomy is, since I haven’t studied it yet but looking at your armatures I would suggest being a bit more careful about how much a particular body part is leaned towards or away from the viewer.

Right now your ellipses/cross contour lines all look pretty similar which makes it look a bit flat in my opinion. Especially the torso because your shoulder line is almost straight. Even if it might be in reality, the purpose of those cross contour lines is to convey direction and movement in three dimensional space or in other words is something leaned towards or backwards and can you therefore see it’s top or bottom, think of cylinders. If you want to implement top, bottom and side consider boxes.

Great work so far 👍

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[Lavender]

These look great! It’s good to put in a focused study like this.

[Yun-Ting Hsieh]

Day 5

Some armature studies.

I always feel my armatures are not fluid enough, and the dimensionality has to be further improved.

Keep working on this!

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• This reply was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by Yun-Ting Hsieh.

[Yun-Ting Hsieh]

Thank you Toby! I like your visual notes a lot. Let’s keep improving anatomy by this challenge!

Thank you Jake and Lavender ! Really appreciate!

Thank you Christopher, you just pointed out my weakness in the armatures. My armatures needed to be improved further regarding the dimensionality. They did look a bit flat and definitely could be better. Thanks for your comments.

 

 

 

[Yun-Ting Hsieh]

Day 6

Some studies of skeletal system based on Day 5 armatures.

 

[Yun-Ting Hsieh]

Day 7

It has been a busy day! Start practicing leg muscles.

[Iliya Mirochnik]

Hey Yun-Ting,

As always I have to commend the anatomy practice. I did a draw-over showing a couple of things I, personally, would do differently. This involves the initial structural block in you’re using, which I think is too generic and not anatomically specific. Everything else I think is rather clear, but feel free to leave questions here and I’ll check in on them. Also, I would make each of the figures the same size side by side. I think it would be easier to compare them and make corrections to all of them at once.

Keep up the great work!

Best,

Iliya

[Yun-Ting Hsieh]

Day 8

studies of torso, hip and legs muscles. The anatomy of legs did take me a lot of time to understand and draw. May keep working on shoulder and arm to complete a full figure, or some blow ups of specific part for more detailed study? What do you think ?

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