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My face never did freeze that way. Well, I don't think it did...
KDLark wrote: Parents who LIE to their children. Shameful. -- Brenda Lewis WIP: J. Himsworth "I Shall Not Want" xs J & P Coats "Dancing Snoopy" latchhook |
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Also the carrying angle of the arms is greater in woman than men. That
is, if arms are held straight down with palms facing forward, the angle between directly down and where the forearm actually points is bigger in women. (learnt THAT one in 2nd year genetics - who said science had no artistic value?) Jacinta Ellice wrote: On 7/21/03 9:55 PM,"Brenda Lewis" posted: And inside of elbow to wrist = length of the foot SunFire wrote: Well, shoulder to elbow should be equal to elbow to tip of fingers (approximately, had to bend my elbow and put my hand on my shoulder to make sure) And, shoulder to tip of fingers should end up right about halfway between the butt and the knee. Ah, but this also depends on whether you are using the more anatomically correct proportional scale, or the slightly elongated, more pleasing to the eye scale. A thing which has been beaten into my little engineer fighting the artist head - by the instructor in my adv figure studio class. Drawing an artistically pleasing subject, rather than a portrait of the model, who is just there for reference - not a portrait. Except in portrait class, of course. And, the proportions for women are slightly different than for men, not just hip width, but angles, slope of the legs, relative length of torso, arms, etc. Darn, I just miss going and draw'n them thar nekked peeples. Some really interesting models. Seriously, Caryn, do you have a mannequin - I find it helps with foreshortening, and some posing in getting a better grip on the proportions. Also, great reference book (one of my splurges last year) "Anatomy Lessons from the Great Masters" - just what it says. Takes great works of art, and lets you see how wonderful artists portrayed anatomy, so incredibly well. ellice -- ÐÏࡱá |
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On 7/22/03 5:55 AM,"wild" posted:
Also the carrying angle of the arms is greater in woman than men. That is, if arms are held straight down with palms facing forward, the angle between directly down and where the forearm actually points is bigger in women. (learnt THAT one in 2nd year genetics - who said science had no artistic value?) Jacinta Certainly not Leonardo - who used autopsies for sketching. And the many artists of prior centuries who sat in on medical classes - to see. Any good artist who does figure drawing has to have an understanding of underlying anatomy. Well, to be really good. How can you do movement, if you don't understand the underlying structure? Good point, Jacinta. ellice |
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I have been drawing 5-fingered (and 5-toed) people since age 2 (long story,
I just did not understand why everyone else was forgetting the thumbs all the time). Is she holding the hand(s) above, below, in front or behind the crystal?? And is it the right or left hand?? She's standing behind the ball, which proportionally would be about a foot across. Originally she was holding her hands evenly on either side of it, in the air beside it, but having removed the arms to redraw them, I've been considering one hand higher as if she's trying to use her magic energies to call forth the images. Clear as mud right? Caryn Blue Wizard Designs http://hometown.aol.com/crzy4xst/index.html Updated: 7/7/03 -- now available Dragon of the Stars View WIPs at: http://community.webshots.com/user/carynlws (Caryn's UFO's) |
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Caryn wrote: I have been drawing 5-fingered (and 5-toed) people since age 2 (long story, I just did not understand why everyone else was forgetting the thumbs all the time). Is she holding the hand(s) above, below, in front or behind the crystal?? And is it the right or left hand?? She's standing behind the ball, which proportionally would be about a foot across. Originally she was holding her hands evenly on either side of it, in the air beside it, but having removed the arms to redraw them, I've been considering one hand higher as if she's trying to use her magic energies to call forth the images. Clear as mud right? Caryn Blue Wizard Designs http://hometown.aol.com/crzy4xst/index.html Updated: 7/7/03 -- now available Dragon of the Stars View WIPs at: http://community.webshots.com/user/carynlws (Caryn's UFO's) Why not get a ball, a table and a person to basically stand in the position that you would like your design to be in, and take a photo of the pose. That way you would have a visual reference to look at and could try a couple of different hand positions to see how it would look. Cyn |
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KDLark wrote:
My father told me that if I kissed the tip of my elbow, I'd turn into a boy. One of my childhood books said that if you could kiss your elbow, it meant that you were a fairy. I never managed it either, though, lol. Cris |
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And I learned the difference between men's and women's arms when DH was
teaching me how to bowl. The inside of men's elbows face their side when hanging straight down--womens' face more out. Makes a big difference in how the ball reacts. Women usually have to counteract the way their arm wants to swing to get the ball down the lane properly. When I was discussing this with my anthropology-hobbyist boss, we figured it probably had something genetically/evolutionarally (is that a word?) to do with women carrying children. Also why our balance point (I think that's right) is more toward our hips and men's is their shoulders. -- Joan That is fascinating! Drawing teacher never mentioned it, that's for sure, but it also explains why dh was able to hold the babies in a way I never was and neither of us quite got why not. Not that he held the babies more than I did! ROFL....just differently Caryn Blue Wizard Designs http://hometown.aol.com/crzy4xst/index.html Updated: 7/7/03 -- now available Dragon of the Stars View WIPs at: http://community.webshots.com/user/carynlws (Caryn's UFO's) |
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