These are tremendously useful supplements to both your figure drawing course and book. Hope future editions of the book will link to the videos, and vice versa.
Hi Mr. Hampton. So glad you've been posting these demos. I was always fond of your method from add each muscle at time with your box perspective. It works really well when doing separate body parts/ only torsos, but when I dare doing a whole figure construction it's just too much and it feels overwhelming. I've seen Gottfried Bammes book and images, and it looks like he condenses the whole structure in a big box form and then subdivide it according to the muscles inside. My question is: If it works really when on body parts, there should be a way to work on the whole figure without being overwhelmed, right? Or is the architecture approach only used to develop a perspective sense but not actually a finished piece? Thank you so much!
Just to clarify, what bugs me is that I have all this knowledge thanks to you and your book that I can't use to push my figure to a better result because, for instance, simplifying it all with just a cylinder looks aesthetically better. (Only on full figures).
There's really no right or wrong way to do any of this. Use the boxes if they help you see perspective in areas that are confusing. If they don't help then leave them out. Any drawing approach I use is customized to the type of pose, my mood, what technical issues I know I have and am working on, etc.
Dont't really know the answer, maybe try using some repeatable process which is conducive to invention (not contour) and practicing developing entire figures. When you run into an area or view you can't realistically draw from imagination study just that section until you can. Best I got.
S. Michael Hampton Thank you very much for the response, I hope you will not be bothered by another question, but I would like to know what the reading pace of your book should be?. I want to be a comic artist.
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These are tremendously useful supplements to both your figure drawing course and book.
Hope future editions of the book will link to the videos, and vice versa.
Glad you've found them useful! No, their won't be a future tie in with the book unfortunately.
Keep 'em coming! :)
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Hi Mr. Hampton. So glad you've been posting these demos. I was always fond of your method from add each muscle at time with your box perspective. It works really well when doing separate body parts/ only torsos, but when I dare doing a whole figure construction it's just too much and it feels overwhelming. I've seen Gottfried Bammes book and images, and it looks like he condenses the whole structure in a big box form and then subdivide it according to the muscles inside.
My question is: If it works really when on body parts, there should be a way to work on the whole figure without being overwhelmed, right? Or is the architecture approach only used to develop a perspective sense but not actually a finished piece?
Thank you so much!
Just to clarify, what bugs me is that I have all this knowledge thanks to you and your book that I can't use to push my figure to a better result because, for instance, simplifying it all with just a cylinder looks aesthetically better. (Only on full figures).
There's really no right or wrong way to do any of this. Use the boxes if they help you see perspective in areas that are confusing. If they don't help then leave them out. Any drawing approach I use is customized to the type of pose, my mood, what technical issues I know I have and am working on, etc.
@@stevenmichaelhampton Thank you for your patience and for the reply!
Michael, what should my Focus be if I want to draw from the imagination?
Dont't really know the answer, maybe try using some repeatable process which is conducive to invention (not contour) and practicing developing entire figures. When you run into an area or view you can't realistically draw from imagination study just that section until you can. Best I got.
S. Michael Hampton Thank you very much for the response, I hope you will not be bothered by another question, but I would like to know what the reading pace of your book should be?. I want to be a comic artist.
@@Phantom-bg8uh I don't really know. Depends on you, whatever is comfortable and allows for an understanding of the material.
S. Michael Hampton Thank you Master
sound ?
No. Just demo