Weekly Anatomy Challenge - Week 3 [Hand]

Jakub

I welcome you to the Weekly Anatomy Challenge!

There is a lot of people on the forum struggling with the complexity of the human body anatomy, including myself. Although, there is a huge amount of references that can be found over the internet, I think that nothing helps more than a help & criticism from fellow artists. If we spice it up with a little bit of a challenge, that might push us to work and study harder!


How it will work ?

Every week I will create a thread with a new challenge, picking up a certain part of the body in three different poses. Don't worry, we won't run out! There is a great deal of ideas that we might use, to make it more demanding with each week.

Who can participate ?

Everyone! I don't want to limit the challenge only to sculptors, so, together with the pose, I'll try to post references on which, people can also draw an ecorche - Scott Eaton style.

It is not a requirement to use Zbrush/Mudbox, you can always create mesh in Maya or any other program, as long as it's about anatomy and people can critique your work.

Guidelines

• Always post the reference that you're using, it will make it easier for everyone else to critique your work
• Please, try to post a critique on someone else work
• Post the WIP of your study, you may spend a lot of time doing the final image and in the end you will learn that your basic shape is wrong
• Have fun and learn!

Week 3 Theme

Hand - Two Poses - Open and fist

Hand Example

Jakub

Some references that might come in HANDy )

bkost

Hah, you've got some hands on jokes!

Felixenfeu

Just wanna say, other artists sculpt should not be used as references, only inspirations. You don't want to do interpretation on top of someone else's interpretation.

bkost

Felixenfeu wrote: »

Just wanna say, other artists sculpt should not be used as references, only inspirations. You don't want to do interpretation on top of someone else's interpretation.

Yea that is true! But I find it incredibly tough to figure out some of the angles on the anatomy, what I like is the sculpts give 360 view (like some of those sculpts)

I'd love to know about any resources that do this for a regular person

Rav3

Some scans. It will be cool if you post next week thread link in previous week topic otherwise it's too hard to find a new week thread coz it's not stick and just lost between others forum threads.

Jakub

Rav3, hands look great! I'll do what you suggested.

Sorry for such a late answer, but I've been away for a weekend.

Rav3

Jakub wrote: »

Rav3, hands look great! I'll do what you suggested.

Sorry for such a late answer, but I've been away for a weekend.

Thanks, that will be really nice, coz there some people from last thread I'm sure they want to join, but can't find this topic

Here we go!

bkost

Hey here's my open hand study!

I'm not sure if I have time to get to the fist, I've got finals coming up

Malatoar

This is my first attempt at the open hand. I'm not that happy with it, and I'll probably redo it if I have some time.



As for feedback, it seems that you guys are quite a bit better at this than I am, and I can't really pick out anything that feels off.

bkost

@Malatoar

Here's what I saw from you... Good start btw!

The fat thumb is what I first noticed, then maybe having the fingers a bit closer together and then your fingers relaxed some more. Try letting your hand hang and look at it, the middle finger isnt straight. They all have a slight curve. Take what you will, I'm learning here as well!

Cheers

Malatoar

Thanks for the feedback Bkost

I redid this hand, and I think this one went better. I tried to keep all your feedback in mind.

Jakub

Hands are looking awesome! Nice to see people participating, unluckily I got a lot on my head with my full-time job and no time to work in Zbrush

I'll keep the topics going of course!

Rav3

Laziness made my day!

Fefs

Hello! I'll participate here too, I have done this model with zbrush, starting with a zsphere.



I tried to make the most finished model possible, but I think later I will work more in the nails. Where more do you think it can be re-done?

@Malatoar - The palm of your hand is very flat, need to be a little more fat

@Rav3 - Good shape! It will be very good with more details

Rav3

@Fets Thanks! But I'm still dont understand what I'm doing I just started with all this anatomy learning muscles etc. so atm no point to care about details only solid masses and muscles/fat searching

Jakub

Topic for the next challenge!

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2286846#post2286846