Jakub's sketchbook of anatomy

Jakub

Hello everyone!

Recently I decided to get some anatomy knowledge to make my work even better. I got myself Anatomy for Sculptors book, 3d.SK account and started to study out all those weird names(anterior superior iliac spine, wtf???) and their placement.

My friends are not really able to help me out in critique, because for them it always looks good, so I thought that you guys might be able to tell me rights & wrongs.

I started my study with a torso, I made first one really slow, to make sure I have all the shapes laid down properly.






I will be posting more of my work in this topic.

Thank you very much in advance!

Greetings
Jakub

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My another try on torso, this time I wanted to make a "regular guy" torso, not a bodybuilder



Some help and criticism are welcome!

Jakub

My first full body sculpt. Any advices on which parts I should focus more in next study will be appreciated.

Jakub

Next study that I started:




Still got to work on hands, feet and head before I retopo and start adding volume of muscle and fat.

Basing him on: http://imgur.com/zoHKXbn,IOaN9lA,XWsBb3i,B8O0Xsd,DtfctuK

Any help and comments will be nice

Greets guys!

Jakub

Finished that guy, I'll not be doing any work on face, was just there for proportion

KurtR

Hey Jakub

First of, I think you got a lot going for you here, so keep it up:) but I do want to comment on your full body sculpt. I took your first image and measured it, and its barley 7 heads high (it seems to not be straight on so could be even less). Even though you have a lot of the landmarks in place, it felt really off due to the proportions. I think you should study that some, and maybe the shoulder/hip relations.

But overall your well on your way here.

Jakub

Thanks for the feedback You're right, I am struggling mostly with proportions, got to work on that a little bit more.

Jakub

Anatomy that I am doing for the weekly challenges on the forums I thought that gathering it over here might be a good idea to get some more critique.

Torso










Arm

Jakub

Working on another full body study

codyaq2

Your softer/less musly sculpts seem to be a lot better than your muscle guys.
Yeah latest muscle guy is a big improvement over the last, but pay attention to the shoulder area, try move it back more to give a natural feel, looks like he is forcing his shoulders foward.
Those posed studies are really good, keep it up.

kanga

Looks like you are really improving!
Keep em comin'

Jakub

It is nice you hear that you see improvement

You're right codyaq2, I'll fix that arm, it looks a bit stiff.

Thanks guys

Jakub

my try on female

KonstantinL

Nice improvement! Keep it up!

You defiantly are starting to see progress. But I think the 2 things that you need to keep in mind and focus is the over all anatomy, and the depth of your sculpts.

By saying anatomy, i mean the primary forms of your sculpts are still poorly define. When ever you are blocking in a sculpt it is best to start of with more of a planer forms "even when sculpting a female". the best reference for that would be Bridgman and his anatomy scatches. For the start of it I think it would be best for you just to try and do a couple of primary planer studies, and only then move in to more of a polished sculpts.

As for the depth, it kind of ties in for the primary shapes. From the looks of it you are too afraid to cut in to the sculpt, as a result most of your forms (especially in the male sculpts) feel like surface detail only. I defiantly run in to the same problem as well, where when I sculpt. I dont push the depth of the forms. The best way to brake out of that is by looking up a 3d body scan of a male or a female just to really understand how deep some of the body planes really go.

Hope this helps, anatomy studies is a really really long and hard rode, it will take some time to get to a good point. But so far your are at a good start!

Jakub

Thanks Konstantin! What you said about fear is actually true, I need to work on that more!

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Recent anatomy study with some cloth

BradMyers82

there are a bunch of things I can pick apart on this last one, but I'm not sure it would even help all that much. Simply put, proportions are off in many areas and I get the feeling you don't really know how a muscular guy is "supposed" to look. I actually compete in bodybuilding myself, so when I see these kind of sculpts its obvious when people are just not all that familiar with how a well developed muscular body actually looks. Like he has these massive arms that looked bloated in the joints, but has no lat muscles to speak of. It just looks weird imo. Also the pants are sitting SUPER low. So I won't pick it apart piece by piece, but just to give you an idea, those are the kind of things I am seeing. That said I see a ton of improvement from the beginning of this thread and you haven't received much criticism so I have to applaud you for sticking with this. Keep going! I would challenge you to get tons of reference in various lighting conditions and really feel the forms. Study the hell out of it. try to understand, how a body looks that is lean and muscular, how it looks if fat, skinny etc. You really need a strong understanding of these kind of things if you want to make things very realistic. Another thing you could do is go to 3dsk get a specific model and make it exactly and post your progress. If you have specific reference it would be really easy to see where you are making mistakes. Good luck bud, keep at it!

jacob thomas

Brad really hits the nail on the head there, really try to feel the forms. The only other thing I want to add is to pay attention to silhouette and overlaps of where muscles meet. They don't just merge into each other.
You have definitely made some great progress in these studies, keep at it.

Jakub

Great critique Brad! That is exactly what I needed to read, to see my error(for ex. arms being two big). I've shown that work to my friend thas ha no clue about anatomy or art and he highlited that a guy with so well defined abdominal and chest muscles, would have a lot more ripped shoulders and arms.

I started a Scott Eaton's course right now, so I hope that will highlight some stuff for me

Thank you!

Jakub

This time I went for face study any c&c are really welcome

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my try on torso in motion

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One more Torso study and added some arms to the mix

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Skull study that I am working on, any tips and suggestions would be nice

kanga

Looks great man keep going!

Jakub

Took a break from a skull and started a female face

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Slight update on it, I'd be grateful for an advice if something is not right

FreemanH

Really nice work on it so far. I'd work on eyelids a bit more, they look to "clean".

Overall, awesome improvement throughout the whole topic. You're putting a lot of effort into it.
I am extremely surprised that this topic is not getting the attention that it deserves.

Jakub

Thanks, I am going to work on eyelids, I checked my references and you're right.

I treat a lack of comments as a plus, it means I am doing stuff correctly(i think )

Jakub

Another update, I'll probably delete that fibermesh and sculpt the hair, I do not like how they look atm.

FreemanH

I like the feel that she has, but like you said, work a bit on the hair.

Jakub

Anatomy study that I've done today

jhoythottle

You're showing great improvement. This thread inspires me, I'm also working on an anatomy course and since I'm not getting much feedback from the instructor, I may post my progress on polycount instead. Keep up the good work!

Jakub

Great feeling to know that my thread inspires someone! Thanks mate

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Decided to take these studys a little further and create a body in movement, current WIP:

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Done ) Face is just a placeholder, did not want to post him with plain neck.

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Another fun

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WIP of the first model/anatomy study in 2016

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Female this time