Best way is life drawing combined with studying good anatomical diagrams, plus drawing some prosected cadavers. A medical school where you can get close to or touch the cadavers is best. Bit icky, but there you go. It's what I did, and it made me truly *get* anatomy in a way I never did before. You don't forget what we're…
I didn't mean he should use photo references as a modeling crutch, I meant that he should use photo references as a study resource for understanding forms. Your proportions are fine, at least in the front view. What is wrong is everything else: shapes of the bones, planes of the face, shapes of the features…
Don't get discouraged, studies are hard.That's the point of them. I like the top two, the third one is a bit hard to read, check if your values are right on that cup. It kinda looks like you are not using multiple layers on these studies. Not sure what software you have, but I'd say you shouldn't be afraid of using digital…
I finished the anatomy study. I learned a lot from this. Mostly, I learned what I DIDN'T know, which man... is a lot. I'm going to start memorizing muscle groups, it's unavoidable. Does anyone have any tips for studying anatomy? I'm going to move onto two more fun projects, for every two fun things I do, I'll do one…
u jumped straight into the deep end with a full on figure sculpt! i suggest focus on one part of anatomy..eg..torso..or just the head. or maybe just legs. then revert back to pencil and paper and produce study plates from front,profile,3/4,back 3/4 views. (FUN..) either way. these smaller chunks of study will allow you to…
yes, colors are really important to me. I've got a lot of things to learn. I'm trying not to get scattered in my studies. For now I'm concentrating on improving my values and my overall painting skills in terms of precision, repainting, perfectionism. I watched some tutorials by some great artists and I paid attention,…
Without wanting to sound like a fucking nag, it's generally recommended that if youre going to do a master study to really take your time or only study a smaller segment and really try to understand the colour choices, brush strokes and that kinda stuff. You may find it boring, but i find spending less than 3 hours on a…
Actually look again at the scholary studies above that ostrich. Im sorry, I have a bit more faith in wikipedia and research results than someone with a blog and knowledge of how to optimize google hits. Sledgy, do you have a link to that particlar "media" show, you know, the same media as that is glamorizing this. How old…
[ QUOTE ] studies prove there is no connection with violence in video games you nuts! if you don't believe it, they aren't going to. [/ QUOTE ] I read a Surgeon General's report about media violence from a few years back, and some studies showed that, at most, there were brief periods of heightened aggression after playing…
"I always see these kind of weird edge loops when doing SubD modeling, but I'm not sure if it's supposed to look like that..." well, you're only seeing expected behavior when a particular sub division algorithm (there are various types) is applied too a low poly cage, in which shading is controlled by edge loops "What's…