Post by greensquid on Mar 24, 2007 9:03:05 GMT -5
I always worry about anatomy. Not just the specifics, but how far you can stretch it and still make it work while still adhering to "the rules" as much as possible.
I tend to practice anatomy by copying from books such as "Burne Hogarth's Dynamic Anatomy" like so:
Now, one thing about doing that kind of stuff... it gets booooooooring. My ADD just goes nuts, and I start pacing back and forth and so on and so forth. Because it's so boring, I worry about what I copy sinking in. I really do. I mean why copy this boring stuff if it doesn't help you, right?
So I try to make it fun, and I make it fun by drawing characters I like but copying the anatomy of the book, and trying to make the two work together.
As you can see from the previous link, I was working on legs. KP, being who she is, probably has very defined legs, so I tried to mix the two. Initially the results were... less than pleasant.
Finally, I got the pose down, and decided to sketch her out in her new costume. I actually like her new costume for drawing. It doesn't lend to "cheese" as much as the other one.
www.deviantart.com/deviation/51570873/
Then I took it a step further, and rendered it.
Oh, and I figure I'll take the opportunity to give my take on her new outfit, because...well, I can.
I think her new outfit no longer bears her mid rift because she's with Ron. Now, I'm semi anthropological about these things, so bare with me. Some scientists did a study a while ago about what men find attractive in various parts of the world. It was some sort of an attempt to disproove the idea that all men everywhere are attracted to large breasts. Anyway, different areas of the globe are indeed attracted to different parts of the body. Somewhere they're indeed turned on by large breasts, others hips, others bellys, and so on and so on. One thing that almost all of these things had in common were they related to reproduction in some sort of way. Whether it was the ability to feed a child (which didn't always involve breasts, it sometimes involved displays of wealth), the ability to have a child, or the fact that they haven't produced a child yet. Just about all of it had to do with reproduction. Now, alot of this stuff isn't literal thinking, obviously, it's instinctual. No guy looks at large breasts and thinks "wow, I bet she could feed a whole mess of kids." No, it's in the subconcious. Kim baring her belly was a subconcious sign that she was available. Instinctually it's saying "I have no stretch marks, and am very youthful and virulent." Even her Dad sort of knew what baring her midrift meant when he said something to the effect of, "it's been my dream to see you save the world without baring your midrift." Because it's something that's inherntly sexual and no father wants to see their little girl out there going "Hey, I'm available!" Now that she's officially with Ron, she's not putting herself out on the market anymore. It's a sign that she's growing up, and moving on beyond the youthful/available Kim to the older/in a relationship Kim.
I'm well aware I've put way way WAAAAAY too much thought in to this, but I can't help it. I get in to these discussions, with friends and this is where it sometimes heads.
I tend to practice anatomy by copying from books such as "Burne Hogarth's Dynamic Anatomy" like so:
Now, one thing about doing that kind of stuff... it gets booooooooring. My ADD just goes nuts, and I start pacing back and forth and so on and so forth. Because it's so boring, I worry about what I copy sinking in. I really do. I mean why copy this boring stuff if it doesn't help you, right?
So I try to make it fun, and I make it fun by drawing characters I like but copying the anatomy of the book, and trying to make the two work together.
As you can see from the previous link, I was working on legs. KP, being who she is, probably has very defined legs, so I tried to mix the two. Initially the results were... less than pleasant.
Finally, I got the pose down, and decided to sketch her out in her new costume. I actually like her new costume for drawing. It doesn't lend to "cheese" as much as the other one.
www.deviantart.com/deviation/51570873/
Then I took it a step further, and rendered it.
Oh, and I figure I'll take the opportunity to give my take on her new outfit, because...well, I can.
I think her new outfit no longer bears her mid rift because she's with Ron. Now, I'm semi anthropological about these things, so bare with me. Some scientists did a study a while ago about what men find attractive in various parts of the world. It was some sort of an attempt to disproove the idea that all men everywhere are attracted to large breasts. Anyway, different areas of the globe are indeed attracted to different parts of the body. Somewhere they're indeed turned on by large breasts, others hips, others bellys, and so on and so on. One thing that almost all of these things had in common were they related to reproduction in some sort of way. Whether it was the ability to feed a child (which didn't always involve breasts, it sometimes involved displays of wealth), the ability to have a child, or the fact that they haven't produced a child yet. Just about all of it had to do with reproduction. Now, alot of this stuff isn't literal thinking, obviously, it's instinctual. No guy looks at large breasts and thinks "wow, I bet she could feed a whole mess of kids." No, it's in the subconcious. Kim baring her belly was a subconcious sign that she was available. Instinctually it's saying "I have no stretch marks, and am very youthful and virulent." Even her Dad sort of knew what baring her midrift meant when he said something to the effect of, "it's been my dream to see you save the world without baring your midrift." Because it's something that's inherntly sexual and no father wants to see their little girl out there going "Hey, I'm available!" Now that she's officially with Ron, she's not putting herself out on the market anymore. It's a sign that she's growing up, and moving on beyond the youthful/available Kim to the older/in a relationship Kim.
I'm well aware I've put way way WAAAAAY too much thought in to this, but I can't help it. I get in to these discussions, with friends and this is where it sometimes heads.
