your videos have helped me SO MUCH in understanding this part of the anatomy. thank you for your gentle, clear approach to teaching. extremely refreshing. you've made anatomy something i dreaded and feared in drawing to something enjoyable
i think myself as well as the vast majority of self taught artists appreciate these courses tremendously! not only are they incredibly easy to follow and very easy to get a grasp on, they're so very accessible and it feels as if I'm an apprentice in my practice, instead of a lost soul trying to skim through anatomy books, figuring out what I'm doing wrong. In short, thank you so much for teaching the community, and for free at that!
Fantastic stuff! It's easy to say everyone is different, but this really showed how you can ply around and experiment with proportions and the simple box construction makes more and more sense to me. :)
Omg thank you I had a class in person where I was totally lost and had no idea about proportion. I’m ready for my next class because of you. Thank youuu
Really great video Richard. You teach in such an understandable way. Now, to get my pencil working for me! Thanks for this breakdown, so much to learn!🙏🏼
I don't remember where I read it, or who said it, but I thought of the quote "the hardest part of drawing is the first mark", halfway through. Thanks again for encouraging studies, exercises, and being analytical, I might even develop a respectable understanding of anatomy, rather than being a Loomis/bridgeman proportion copy/paste machine.
Do u happen to have a video on how to make the body parts look, well, like body parts? For example, i cant seem to draw the hamstring or calve without making the leg look too skinny or too fat because idk how big to make the curve
Could you use triangulation to get the size of the boxes? triangle: humerus left, humerus right, horicontal line where the ribcage ends? Something like that? Only one idea? (See: 11:42)
There's a concept similar to this in the Reilly method for the full figure where the triangle goes from the head of the humerus (approx) down to the pubic bone. Personally not a huge fan of this concept. Seems to overcomplicate the issue for me. But...if a concept works for you then go for it, there is no right or wrong here or one size fits all.
@@RichardSmithemanArt Since I attend nude classes and often only have 2 to 15 minutes here, the Reilly Method seems far too complex for me. I would do the triangulation in my head at most. With your method cobined with the method by Karl Gnass, I currently manage a quick sketch in five minutes. I also liked your approach of thinking in several levels. Here the simple "rectangle" shapes for the torso are very practical to "get rid" of details. Thank you for your videos, please continue this types of videos 🙂
