Doing a character for later anim. A swimmer, he still misses his speedo but im getting to that, still have to do some work on the character. Crits/Tips welcome.
Hi Giantsun,
Cool modeling but to me the arms and legs are too short (especialy the legs)
It looks like a shortening view.
Keep going,
Dizzy Boy
I am going to recheck the proportions on this, thanks DizzyBoy.
Rechecking proportions…some work on muscles…testing 1 2 3…
Looking good … loads of detail. I think what’s throwing me is the top of the chest … it looks like solid ribcage all the way up to his armpits. If you dig in there a bit to define the muscles he’ll look more in proportion. But I’m sure you know that already. What are your plans for the model?
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Pilou
The arms are too shorts too.
Keep working on it.
I want to see your advances
Moochie : A swimmer in a pool…I want to do the jump in the water, swim away thing…with “muscly” interaction… but gotta recheck them upper chest first.
Frenchy Pilou, ilusiondigital: Yep guys, back to the drawing board
Coming on nice here are a few things I would amend.
- forarms longer and bigger and hands bigger.
- Legs need to be much longer.
I would like to see the back and side pics also.
It took me a fair while to get mine looking right and still has loads of work to be done.
Will have to post after the week end…mucho worko…drowzy…sleep now…
thanks for the pointers tez. Will post has soon has more corrections are made.
I must be anamorphicaly observent chanllenged cause I only see it after you good folkz point it out. Oh well.
Going for better proportions, shorter upper body, bigger hands, longer arms and legs…will continue to try to improve on details, pay no attention to the weird hair. Crits & tips welcomed.
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Still looks a bit misproportioned. What screen resolution are you using? Maybe your models are appearing elongated on your screen?
If you’ve never looked at body proportions before, you should pop down your local book store and see what they’ve got in the Art Theory section. All you want is a beginner’s book on drawing the human body, because that will show the classic ‘canons’ … proportions based on the distance between scalp and chin. I’ve put links to a couple of small versions below. Good luck!
http://underdog.dreamcomics.com/english/canon.htm
http://www.wetcanvas.com/ArtSchool/Drawing/HumanForm/Lesson2/
Thanks folks will have a go at that. And yes my screens are a bit elongated cause i mainly do post production and i got everything set up so that two standart pal screens get displayed on monitor.
Several hours of looking at it…and doing stuff to it…and some voodoo in the middle.
Think this is a keeper…dunno…u tell me…those links were killers. thanky. 
Crits & Tips very welcomed. 
Can you tell us where you are making these changes to the body as Im finding it hard to see them but thats only if your going for a anatomically correct look.
IMO the forarms need to be a little biger near the extensor carpi radius longus muscle I beleave the outer upper forarm. I can drawer legs over your picture if you dont mind to where I think they should be. The Thighs and shin needs to be longer in length. The head is looking nice.
Hi tez. If you look at it with the “head rectangle unit” in mind, you will see the proportions are dif then on any of the other pics. I actually found one 8 unit real life human, 3 7.5ers and a lot of 6’somethings on the street…but hey wtf…I’m up for anything. I used the units anyway. (and yes I even used rectangules to check it) I went for shorter then 7.5 cause somehow that seems to be average and not anyone “desearves” to be on a pedestal through the use of this little rule. Cause you cant really go round saying…hey dude your not anatomic enough…this just seems to be something derived from classical…prolly greek post helenic culture.
If you could do a draw over that would be great, if its not too much trouble.
Think swimmer…
Thanks.
Sitting here at my 'puter, I can lift my foot onto the chair seat so my heel is tight up to my bum, lean forward just a little, and touch my shoulder against my knee. Most of the bending is using my hip, though there is some tilt to my pelvis and stomach (lower spine). Where physically able to bend like your model, the best reference you have is your own self. Cheap too! I used to approach people on the streets with a tape measure and callipers, but the courts didn’t look too kindly on that …:rolleyes:
Good luck.
I been measuring my family…they dont seem to complain but they stare at me while I do it…weird!!!
I used myself as a reference for my model which still is WIP.
Anatomically correct is a average which I asume your aiming at, personly all I need is my eyes to see if things are a out but a reference such as yourself is always handy. I find it easyer to see things as Im a bodybuilder and look for perfection in myself so pick up on certain things visualy. Im learning anatomy as I was way off on some things as still am. Im picking things up on my model that is not revealed to me what it is
In the end its about what your happy with and if you think its how it should look then there are no rules to your creations and artistic idears.
I will draw over the picture when I got time this after noon but remember this is only a opinion. Seeing what youhave done so far shows some errors in my later creation a far as whats pleasing to my eyes. Keep it up.