3D week 7: Anatomy!

This week we learned about anatomy. We were supposed to bring in some of our 3D drawings. We did this to see how well we knew the human anatomy. In 2D-I we had also been working with the human anatomy. I planned to bring in some drawings with me from my sketchbook which I had used to draw in during the 2D-I course. The drawings I had done, well more like sketches really, I had drawn were from when we had nude models which posed for us. The models would change position in 30 second intervals so we didn’t have that much time to get a good accurate drawing of the anatomy, is was mainly so that we had the chance to get the basic shape of the human figure. But I ended up not going to the lesson because I was sick that day.

I realized that I did not have a lot of knowledge about the muscle anatomy. During the one of the anatomy classes we drew the anatomy on top of sculptures or how we thought it should be. I used pictures of muscles from the internet and that was easier for me though it was not perfect but it helped me to understand how to do it in 3D. I think that like a lot of things especially drawing is to practice a lot and to get good and learn new techniques. The muscles are very important when making any character, even aliens. Alien creatures might not have the exact muscles as us, but I think that it would make sense if the worked in a similair fashion. If their arm would be able to bend then it would have to have a joint and muscles which would allow the alien to control their arm.

Understanding how muscles work isn’t only important when drawing your characters, but also super, if not more important, when modeling them. The model will be able to be seen from many different angles so knowing and understanding human anatomy is very important or the model might end up looking alright from one angle, but very wrong from another.

The things that I think that I need to work on the most is probably the arms and the legs. I think that the arms and the legs are very important. I think that they are more important than the torso because the torso is often covered with clothing of some sort where as the arms and legs are normaly shown more for an example if the character is wearing a t-shirt or shorts.

The face is also something which is very important for me to work on too. I think the face is the one of the absolute first things which people look at when they look at a drawing. People see faces everyday all the time. If a face is weird it is a lot more noticeable than if a leg or arm is bent a little bit the wrong way. Well for it is like that anyway.