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Introduction
Introduction
This week we will be looking at the anatomical human muscle structure, measuring body, facial, head and hand proportions, dynamic posing, refining forms prior to tie-downs / clean line, and finalizing Project 1.
Before Class
Before Class
PRE-Class Tasks:
PRE-Class Tasks:
Watch the below videos for some ways to draw the human muscle systems.
Continue work on Project 1, Milestone 2: Character ROUGHS - Design Variations - at least 1 full A4 page or more, total 20 or more versions of character rough/thumbnail designs, using the Character Design Resources from Week 3. Roughs should be many clearly different shape concepts, whether multiple characters or not. Combinations of human and animal characteristics (physical and/or psychological) are also recommended.
Advanced students: After completing all 20+ ROUGH concepts, work on FINE Design Variations - examples in Project 1, Milestone 2 Brief .
Practice drawing techniques in your sketch books that we have covered in weeks 1-3.
As usual:
- Practise Digital Drawing and/or Traditional warmups
- Borrow/bring:
- A drawing tablet and/or drawing equipment, as per Week 1.
- Headphones/earphones for viewing videos at your workstation.
- Use your own credentials for borrowing, thank you.
- Complete last week's Post-Class activities.
- Prepare updated GDrive files
Resources: Character Design Resources from Week 3
Roughs should be clearly different shape concepts, whether one or multiple characters.
Roughs should be clearly different shape concepts, whether one or multiple characters.
Roughs should be clearly different shape concepts, whether one or multiple characters.
Recommended: Think, Pair, Share: A construction formula (sometimes called a ratio formula) helps you measure and memorize character proportions, using math and numbers. Search in this reference folder for a step-by-step formula, similar to your designs, which you can use. Help another student do the same.
Please don't use fully-colored/shaded reference. Choose reference that shows the simplified skeleton and basic shapes underneath the design, and proportion math.
A manga character head construction formula - this can also be used in Western styles.
Sycra - Realistic male torso poses, with musculature
Jazza - Realistic arm musculature
Jazza - Realistic dynamic poses, with musculature, and foreshortening
Jazza - Realistic leg musculature
Or, this way, streamlined...
Very useful.Google to find it!Human anatomy, Part 1, color coded, 20 mins
Human anatomy, Part 2, color coded, 44 mins
During Class
During Class
Human Structure
Muscle Charts
"Fleshing" out the simplified skeleton
Drawing human Anatomy
Preparation for Life Drawing
Measurement
Proportion Formulas
Materials
Dynamic poses
Finalizing Project 1
Digital imaging: Photoshop cleanup, alignment, tone correction, Type tool.
Overview of Project 2
IN-CLASS: LECTURE VIEWING - WEEK 4
IN-CLASS: LECTURE VIEWING - WEEK 4
Content Notice: Mild Artistic Nudity
Content Notice: Mild Artistic Nudity
IN-CLASS: TUTORIAL ACTIVITY
IN-CLASS: TUTORIAL ACTIVITY
ANI170_Tutorial_04_19T1.pdf"Anatomy Over Skeleton" Construction Turnaround
For drawing musculature over the simplified human skeleton. 8 heads high. Digital: Photoshop TIF template file, with guides - click, download, drawover with color. Recommended. Traditional: Click, print to A4 landscape, drawover with color. "Anatomy Over Skeleton" Construction Turnaround
Human2Body-Musculature-Over-Skeleton-1.tifDavid's Class
GDrive collectionGo here, add shortcut to Drive
Resources: Measurement
Resources: Measurement
For
Life drawing & observation
Measuring reference
Practise all methods
Whether following a reference construction formula, basic shapes, or observing life, we must practise accurate measurement.
Traditional or Digital
- Use your thumb and pencil, held at a constant distance from your eye, to take a measurement, then mark it lightly on your drawing.
- Revision also improves accuracy: Continually re-measure and revise, to improve the drawing. Don't stop until everything measures correctly.
- Struggling with very fine measurements using thumb and pencil? Use a transparent plastic ruler with millimeters.
- Angles can be measured with a pencil (or two pencils, or a protractor).
- Flip a taped reference artwork sheet over your drawing, about 1 second each time.
Digital
- When drawing from reference, you can use the flip/on/off measurement technique, to briefly display your drawing vs the reference.
- In Windows running Photoshop, you can do this by clicking the running Photoshop icon in the Windows Taskbar, to show the reference underneath, for about 1 second each time.
- Alternatively, place the reference on another layer in the same Photoshop file, and click the Layer display on/off.
- Flipping helps to train persistence of vision, and is useful for frame to frame animation drawing.
Drawing the classic, realistic human figure, by formula:
A4 landscape, full figure, head size about 20mm
A4 portrait, full figure, head size: about 30mm
A2: double it
Torso: 2.8 heads
Legs: 4 heads, Arms: 2.5 to 2.8 heads
Hands: 0.8 head
Feet: 1 head
Tracing
Click the down arrow to the right, for details Tracing
If you're struggling with some aspects of basic drawing, check with your lecturer if it's okay for you to use (gasp!) tracing.
First, choose good quality reference. Use line art with construction guidelines. Do not use full color artwork. See recommended reference images.
Tracing only the basics is best:
Cranium ellipse (upper skull, smoothed)
Simplified skeleton guidelines.
Primitive construction shapes, underlying the complex forms.
Eyeline, Jawline.
Smooth all lines with multiple strokes, please.
No details.
This way, you can more easily make the drawing your own.
Traditional
Paper should be thin; printer paper is often okay.
Lightly tape the reference to a lightbox or a window. Lightly tape a new paper sheet over it, but only tape the top side. Don't use packaging tape (it is hard to remove). Use Scotch Magic Tape or Masking Tape.
Trace over the reference layer, with a sharp construction light blue pencil.
Lift/flip the drawing, away from the reference, over and over, (about 1 second each time) to check it.
Once you have a construction layer drawn, stop tracing.
Digital
Place the reference layer in Photoshop (drag and drop usually works).
In the layers panel, drop the layer opacity to 30% or so.
Create a new layer.
In the new layer, trace over the reference layer, with a 30% opacity brush, in construction blue.
You can start with thicker strokes, but you must gradually reduce to thin, sharp strokes for lines. Tap the [ ] keys for brush size up/down.
Turn the reference layer on and off, on and off, on and off, (about 1 second each time) to check it.
Once you have a construction layer drawn, you can turn the reference layer off.
Continue roughing details, combining observation and measurement with freehand imagination.
Use parts of multiple references, and combine them in various ways.
Please keep your low-opacity construction guide-lines and shapes; these should please be captured and/or displayed as part of your process.
Practise Hand-eye coordination drills from Digital Drawing
Life Drawing Reference
Using this online resource, practice drawing from figures in action. Your facilitator will setup a session with timings to work to.
For each pose start with a line of action (a simple curved line that indicated the direction travel, often along the spine and extended limbs). Draw this lightly and go over it several times building up weight until you are confident in the line.
Add your lines of balance. These should indicate the position and direction of the hips and shoulders, as well as suggesting where the weight is being borne.
Build out your simple skeleton.
Add muscles, clothing, face detail as you need and as time allows.
An important step to take in this process and all drawings is to take the time to inspect your work. At each stage, stop and appraise what you have done. If it works, keep going. If it doesn't, fix or abandon it. Do not push on without making sure your time is going to be well spent.
Milestones 2, 3 and Project Completion all due end of Week 4
Project 1 In-Class Activities
Project 1 In-Class Activities
Feedback on Student Project 1 Work-In-Progress (WIP) via projector
With class observation and participation
Recommended for Project 1:
Think, Pair, Share:
A construction formula (sometimes called a ratio formula) helps you measure and memorize character proportions, using math and numbers.
Search in this reference folder for a step-by-step formula, similar to your designs, which you can use. Help another student do the same.
Please don't use fully-colored/shaded reference. Choose reference that shows the simplified skeleton and basic shapes underneath the design, and proportion math.
Reference should please be well-measured and followed closely.
Use 'stylistically standard' formulas for bodies, heads, hands, etc.
Project 2 - Character Turnarounds, Model Sheets, and Props
Project 2 - Character Turnarounds, Model Sheets, and Props
Project Completion due end of Week 8
Introduction to PROJECT 2 Brief - Character Turnarounds, Model Sheets, and Props
Read the project Brief
Create Project GDrive folder.
Collect reference for Props, best selected Character Roughs/Thumbnails from Project 1, and other relevant inspiration/reference.
After Class
After Class
Weekly outside-class-time is 6 hours per week.
Use a calendar and schedule your recurring time, with access to tools, software and equipment.Please do any in-class exercises and Project work due, whether you attended or not.
- Digitize any traditional work.
Save all files/images to
GDrive > My SAE Studies > Trimesters > [Tri] > [Unit]
- Students are responsible for keeping their data safe and accessible in an agreed, shared location.
Insert/embed images for web display
- Ensure your GDrive link is well-displayed in your unit home page.
Publish your web pages
- Whenever work-in-progress changes, finished or not.
Preparation for Life Drawing:
Complete your Project 1 character roughs/thumbnails
Publish and submit your link to Campus Online, today.
- Please kindly estimate the likely content/age rating of your scene idea, and your likely target audience demographic. To compare your scene idea to the age ratings for well-known shows, here is example1, example2, or please look up your preferred medium. You may be asked at any time about this, so prepare an answer. Please add a content warning for any content which may be confrontational or difficult.
Materials - prepare materials for Life Drawing
Digital: portable devices, saved digital brushes, and large A2/A3 sheet sizes.
Traditional: large A2/A3 paper; blue/2H, 2B, and 4B pencils; transparent plastic ruler; sharpener; conte; graphite sticks.
Prep for Project 2
Practise Hand-eye coordination drills
Check out the Topics page for some self-directed learning
Check out the Resources pages for some self-directed learning (below this campus > weekly)
ROUGHS need big differences in concepts, shapes and even styles.
image: Stephen Silver
FINE Variations - cleaned up, one character idea, but still variations of proportions. Offer even more choices to the client/director.
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