Honestly most of my life i believed they were just decorations and it was just artists finding and testing out a new way to make everything a reference I see them a lot in houses where no artist have ever lived. And i agree they do look funky
I had this when I was younger and it was actually super helpful for me. I didn’t use it for anatomy at all, I just used it for posing. I just stopped using it because it broke. I admit being without it helped more though!
@wrenithilduincatsaren't you allowed or aren't able to help eachother with references? And can't you take a picture of yourself for a reference? Then I'd suggest to train a little at home at your free time. It may not be as effective, but it will be easier for you in class
I had been scrolling when he said it and was glancing over the comments so all I heard was '-this and i'm so horny', so I legit thought someone was down bad for the mannequin 😭😭 I shot back to the top REAL quick because I was like 'I BEG your pardon?????'
I have a 3D printer and use the figure “dummy 13” by Soozafone for drawing. It’s anatomically fairly correct (I think) but mainly it has a lot of articulation so it’s great for posing. It has a wide community making mods for it too for example wings, extra arms,… you can easily print them at home or buy them online from retailers, and they’re just great to play with in general.
My mom came in and was like „ why are you watching RUclips? You should study!!“ And I was like ,, mom .. I am studying !! I’m studying art😀“ and then she got out of my room💀
Literally today was the first time i have ever tried using this shit to draw full bodies and i thought it was going to be easy i almost lost my mind so now im gonna use it as a base to sculpt a character out of clay lol
It can be used for learning to draw basic shapes in perspective. 3-D perspective is the thing that gives most beginners trouble. And it gives experienced Artist trouble also. The mannequin breaks down the most basic shapes, and then you can pose it and draw it in perspective Then, when you do learn the actual human form, you could put it in perspective from your imagination because that’s a separate skill. You’re welcome lol
Man I remember painting it red and adding metal wires, and then making cardboard and paper cutouts that folded into Springtrap's costume. I ended up breaking it on purpose for funsies on a phone call when i yeeted him and his head shot off because the spring came loose lmao
I wanted to do the same three weeks ago. But i was reading forums and saw a suggestion to use posemaniacs website instead. And it is honestly very good!
To be fair the hand thingy I can see being helpful but that mannequin does not help. I would say a reference or 3d model is so much better, even with traditional artists you can easily bring up a 3d model or reference just with your phone, If you can carry that thing anywhere then you're better off carrying your phone. (Which is much more useful)😊
I switched to a 3d printed mannequin after buying one of these at IKEA, it has been a lifesaver. If anyone's wondering it's called a dummy 13. You can buy it online but it's EXPENSIVE, but you can print it yourself if you have a 3d printer. The assembly is hard but it's worth the pain to have a good reference.
As an artist myself, I’ve had SO many people compliment my perspective and hand anatomy since I was a teen. But that’s because I never had one of these things! I studied my own hands and real people. And I practiced all the time. Learning perspective I began with roads and cabinets. Then I moved on the arms and legs. Now it’s 2nd nature for me because I haven’t stopped practicing that I know the basic shapes for these things! Sam is absolutely right with the knuckles. They will ALWAYS bend/curve depending on the hand pose. It’s extremely important to remember how many things shift and alter throughout our body as humans :D ALSO 💀that meme near the end made me die lol
I also have one of these guys and I’m glad that I have procrastinated using it for so long that it now serves its actual purpose as part of my deco. Please give the beautiful boy (the one at the end of the video) a kiss!
Some people including older people have asked me (a young statist who started with the wrong things but is always going back to the basics, thanks to the best art teacher of the internet being Sam) how to start to draw. And I always make sure to say something like: most basic art shit to have ever lives like drawing 100 different cubes of diffeents angles, lengths, so on. I want them to start off with what I skipped and go back to so they can learn from many of our mistakes… Love you same, more tutorials pls❤❤❤
i just 3d printed one of those dummy 13 mannequin for reference and its actually pretty nice for that since it can be posed much more realistically + it was basically free to make since i already had a printer, these wooden ones are nice for decoration tho
The quote for the ages 😂: "so if you're like me and you love action figures you can ask your mom for one of these and say it's for educational purposes and you wouldn't actually be lying "
i agree with sam i wanted this when i started out, but only because i wanted to use it for poses. so it *could* have a purpose idk? im js saying that for specific styles and stuff and for like simplifying?? also, ur dog at the end
I have one of these and I use it to pose my current mood. Like, if I'm happy, I'm posing it like it's jumping or with arms up in the air. I NEVER used it for art, lol!
I am the WORST at poses and I was like in my mind”OH I should go buy one of those and after I watch this never never buying no no(guess I will touch some grass(AND THE HANDS IS SO TRUE PEOPLE ASK ME(how you so good(BRO USE YOUR hAnDs)💀💀
I drew a silly face on mine and named him Steve, then made a little paper Mad hatter-like top hat and gave him a suit from one of my old plushies, along with a paper bowtie that I also made for him. For three years now he has been my butler who holds my hairties :)
I used to draw in high school. We had a Secret gift exchange around Christmas, and someone actually got me this wooden mannequin. I never understood why they gave me such a thing. So, I broke it off from its base and hung it from my bookshelf with a string, as if it were on a gallows. It's been there for 10 years, never used once. And after seeing them in this video, I still won’t. Either it takes me to the grave, or I take it.
IDK, George Morikawa uses them for Hajime no Ippo and will straight up draw them into panels where someone is explaining a motion a boxer performed. Sometimes it helps me visualize the movement better because it's isolated and has less visual clutter associated with it. (Not that Hajime no Ippo has frequent visual clutter, it's just some movements can be difficult to follow panel-to-panel)
I bought one of those wooden hands during the pandemic, mainly as decoration but to also practice hand anatomy. I realized how bad it was so quick, even though at the time I wasn't too interested in drawing hands. I realized that it was too stiff and it wasn't as versatile as your own damn hand. Even though back then I had really chubby hands, I'd still prefer to use them (or references from the internet) over the damn wooden hand.
I got gifted a "how to draw manga" starter kit a while ago, because my family got wind of me trying to learn to draw. I know it was gifted to me in good faith, but I generally dislike getting gifts that are tied to my hobbies, that I did not explicitly ask for. That kit contained a mechanical pencil which I still use to this day, 3 types of fineliners which I have yet to try out, one such mannequin and a small booklet "explaining" how to draw a character using the mannequin. The instructions in that booklet were bad, like really really bad, comically bad I must say. Instructions for drawing the head were: Draw an oval and divide it into 4 equal sections. Next draw the jawline, add ears and eyes on the horizontal line you drew to divide the face. Now add eyebrows above the eyes, the nose is placed halfway between eyes and chin and the mouth halfway between nose and chin. Finally add hair and you are done! Instructions for hands: Draw a rectangle, add 5 ovals (sausages) to it. Use your own hand as reference and done! For proper body construction: Step 1: Pose the mannequin. Step 2: Sketch the mannequin onto paper. Step 3: ????. Step 4: A finished drawing. Don't get me started on the Shading and Perspective pages they have done... That's it throughout the whole booklet, no fundamentals, no proper construction, they either give you the worst kind of instructions, or they basically tell you "You'll figure it out! :)". To this day, that mannequin is sitting in its box, never seeing the light of day, unless I want to laugh at the instructions in that booklet.
Instead of using this for drawing I used to use it as an action figure and my child brain made it a super powerful hand - to - hand combat machine that my other action figures had to use to get better at fighting lol
One day, after someone advised me to buy one, i went and saw what it could do, noticed that it couldn't move its legs on the side, and then went back home with good paper instead
I use my wooden mannequin for dressup. He's a dignified gentleman with a top hat and a sparkly silver sash
Awww that's actually adorable!
Omg good idea
He sounds very sophisticated
Same except I made mine a girl lol❤
When I was around 13 I made my wooden one into a posable Kokeshi Doll
They are used for LITERALLY everything except their intended purpose 😭
0:37 spoke my mind
Honestly most of my life i believed they were just decorations and it was just artists finding and testing out a new way to make everything a reference
I see them a lot in houses where no artist have ever lived. And i agree they do look funky
I randomly saw those mannequins in an IKEA
That’s proof that they should just be used as decorations
wake up babe sam just posted
TILL?
🔥🔥
🫃
TILL TILL ‼️‼️‼️
TILL SPOTTED
I had this when I was younger and it was actually super helpful for me. I didn’t use it for anatomy at all, I just used it for posing. I just stopped using it because it broke. I admit being without it helped more though!
😂😂😂 Bro supported the mannequins just to betray it at the end
Posing is difficult for me, and my art class doesn't utilize technology.
@wrenithilduincats bring printouts of some references then? just a bunch of basic poses
Ah yes my favourite poses. "Staying up straight" pose and "laying down in a grave" pose
@wrenithilduincatsaren't you allowed or aren't able to help eachother with references? And can't you take a picture of yourself for a reference? Then I'd suggest to train a little at home at your free time. It may not be as effective, but it will be easier for you in class
0:59 This was so random wtf 😭 I wasn’t expecting him to say that lol
💀💀💀💀
I had been scrolling when he said it and was glancing over the comments so all I heard was '-this and i'm so horny', so I legit thought someone was down bad for the mannequin 😭😭 I shot back to the top REAL quick because I was like 'I BEG your pardon?????'
7:34 it is FANTASTIC 💜💜
Is that HYPERPIGMENTATION?! It’s ✨FANTASTIC ✨
whenever sam posts a new video:
i yippeee!! 🎉
even if the post is really small: i yippee
because quality over quantity
Awww!! Your dog is so freaking cuteee 😭😭
7:30 it's fanTASTIC though!!
Wait, say that again. 😏
Ooo where were you - where were you when it was time for senior photooss?
Dude I was drawing and I was watching Sam then my mom asks me “Who is this guy?”(Sam) “He’s pretty handsome” and I’m like dayum mom
I have a 3D printer and use the figure “dummy 13” by Soozafone for drawing. It’s anatomically fairly correct (I think) but mainly it has a lot of articulation so it’s great for posing. It has a wide community making mods for it too for example wings, extra arms,… you can easily print them at home or buy them online from retailers, and they’re just great to play with in general.
Yeah, that's a way better model for references. And if you already have a printer, it costs you almost nothing to print
My mom came in and was like „ why are you watching RUclips? You should study!!“
And I was like ,, mom .. I am studying !! I’m studying art😀“ and then she got out of my room💀
I hope she didn't get out to find something to hit you with 😂
niceeeeee lol should use thiss
The puppy at the end worth it all
Literally today was the first time i have ever tried using this shit to draw full bodies and i thought it was going to be easy i almost lost my mind so now im gonna use it as a base to sculpt a character out of clay lol
I had the same experience 😭
No amount of experience or skill will make making this thing work decently easy
It can be used for learning to draw basic shapes in perspective.
3-D perspective is the thing that gives most beginners trouble. And it gives experienced Artist trouble also.
The mannequin breaks down the most basic shapes, and then you can pose it and draw it in perspective
Then, when you do learn the actual human form, you could put it in perspective from your imagination because that’s a separate skill.
You’re welcome lol
5:23 “Hey Darkwing! My finger can transform, guess which one”
Hello father! Please feed us! The moss is running out! And the paint water is going to run out!
Me and my sister use it as jewelery holder. Lmao 😭😭. Bro is decked out in cold and crystals 😂
1:34 the good things he said about it were so inspirational😍
1:38 was rough come on SAM stop cooking 😭😂😂
Awwww puppy at the end of the video is everything 😍
i think its less for anatomy but for ideas in poses.
Wow, I have some of these but never use them😭
the moment I was given one and tried using it... I knew I couldn't use it properly to strike a pose to draw.
I had one of those mannequins and my dog chewed it up, best thing to ever happen to my art.
i hate those bc they never stay the right pose 😭
5:22 Chill down sam!!!
0:18 iremember painting them to look like Freddy faz bear and more when I was like 6-7 😭
Man I remember painting it red and adding metal wires, and then making cardboard and paper cutouts that folded into Springtrap's costume.
I ended up breaking it on purpose for funsies on a phone call when i yeeted him and his head shot off because the spring came loose lmao
Hello people
Hi!
I have one of those and its only function is to T pose in a shelf next to a doll.
Fun fact ,the poses at 2:15, he drew them 10 months ago
wait
I was gonna buy this 💀
not me literally just buying one like a week ago...
I wanted to do the same three weeks ago. But i was reading forums and saw a suggestion to use posemaniacs website instead. And it is honestly very good!
lol the little face you drew on the doll at 3:00 represents how I feel when I see these for sale for like 30$ 😭🙌
I just got one of these for Christmas 😭
never used them but still watched it
To be fair the hand thingy I can see being helpful but that mannequin does not help. I would say a reference or 3d model is so much better, even with traditional artists you can easily bring up a 3d model or reference just with your phone, If you can carry that thing anywhere then you're better off carrying your phone. (Which is much more useful)😊
You have the perfect hand model attached to you at all times lol
how is the hand model helpful? the thumb is in a very awkward position and the rest of the hand is shaped all wrong
AW the dog is so cute!!
your doggo is so cuteee
5:22 it's killing me 🤣🤣🤣
That tiny aggressive high five at the end
wtf sam uploaded randomly today
I had one of these, and it is far less useful than my gundam model kits. It has no range of motion by comparison lol
I switched to a 3d printed mannequin after buying one of these at IKEA, it has been a lifesaver.
If anyone's wondering it's called a dummy 13. You can buy it online but it's EXPENSIVE, but you can print it yourself if you have a 3d printer. The assembly is hard but it's worth the pain to have a good reference.
Your doggie is adorable 😍 😭
I was going to buy this today man 😭😭
3:17 YOU CAN WHIP AROUND AND SPIN?? AND THEN JUMP BACK, DO IT AGAIN??
Ninjago mentioned🗣️
Now you tell me, after I already bought Jeremy for myself on my birthday, just to find out he's not flexible enough to do the poses i wanted...
As an artist myself, I’ve had SO many people compliment my perspective and hand anatomy since I was a teen. But that’s because I never had one of these things! I studied my own hands and real people. And I practiced all the time. Learning perspective I began with roads and cabinets. Then I moved on the arms and legs. Now it’s 2nd nature for me because I haven’t stopped practicing that I know the basic shapes for these things! Sam is absolutely right with the knuckles. They will ALWAYS bend/curve depending on the hand pose. It’s extremely important to remember how many things shift and alter throughout our body as humans :D
ALSO 💀that meme near the end made me die lol
Fr I painted mine bcuz I wanted to use it but I wanted to do dynamic poses and now it's only decor.
It's the way I just got one gifted to me from my friend for my birthday😭😭😭
SAM YOU HAVE THE MOST MAJESTIC, ETHEREAL, WHIMSICAL PUPPY I HAVE EVER SEEN PLEASE COUGH HIM UP BUDDY 🙏🙏
I also have one of these guys and I’m glad that I have procrastinated using it for so long that it now serves its actual purpose as part of my deco. Please give the beautiful boy (the one at the end of the video) a kiss!
I use those mannequins to hold my hair bands
your dog is so cute
My favourite artist posting this right after I bought a mannequin.
Some people including older people have asked me (a young statist who started with the wrong things but is always going back to the basics, thanks to the best art teacher of the internet being Sam) how to start to draw. And I always make sure to say something like: most basic art shit to have ever lives like drawing 100 different cubes of diffeents angles, lengths, so on. I want them to start off with what I skipped and go back to so they can learn from many of our mistakes… Love you same, more tutorials pls❤❤❤
i just 3d printed one of those dummy 13 mannequin for reference and its actually pretty nice for that since it can be posed much more realistically + it was basically free to make since i already had a printer, these wooden ones are nice for decoration tho
Bro! When I use this crap it is literally just a straight up pic of this wood abomination 😵
This vid changed my whole perspetive of these mannequins. Thanks Sam I was gonna buy one.
I wonder how many people i simping for his hands😂 6:41
I love your videos
So much!!
The quote for the ages 😂: "so if you're like me and you love action figures you can ask your mom for one of these and say it's for educational purposes and you wouldn't actually be lying "
love your vids and especially your humour❤
His little doggie is so cute 😭😭😭
I haven’t used mine ever since I got it in fourth grade, it’s been five years.
Love manikins and the hands just for the aesthetic
I just remember mine wouldn't hold the pose for longer then a second so I never ended up using it
5:23 😭
thank you Sam, youre a big help
STOP WHY THE HYPERPIGMENTATION😭
I put on sam for my friend whos into art and he asked "why is he so.... commanding, like he the alpha" lmfao😭
7:35 not the hyperpigmentation
Today you really open my eyes
MAKE ME😭😭😭
(1:21 ok that's enough)
NEW SAM VIDEO LESGO finally I can eat dinner in peace
Action figures are actually a fun idea
I remember owning one of those when I was little, I named him Arnold Bartholomew. He was a distinguished gentlemen.
I decided to take home a mannequin from my art class and it was missing a leg. I threw it out
i agree with sam
i wanted this when i started out, but only because i wanted to use it for poses. so it *could* have a purpose idk? im js saying that for specific styles and stuff and for like simplifying??
also, ur dog at the end
I have one of these and I use it to pose my current mood. Like, if I'm happy, I'm posing it like it's jumping or with arms up in the air. I NEVER used it for art, lol!
DADDY SAM HAS POSTED 🤩🤩
SAMUEL COMMITS ARTISTIC VALUES IN A PLURAL FORM 🎩
i use the mannequin to hold my headphones. that's it's only purpose ever bahaha
I am the WORST at poses and I was like in my mind”OH I should go buy one of those and after I watch this never never buying no no(guess I will touch some grass(AND THE HANDS IS SO TRUE PEOPLE ASK ME(how you so good(BRO USE YOUR hAnDs)💀💀
I love the weekends 🤭
There is a sort of transformer like hand model for drawing, and it is much more accurate and helpful. I think originals were designed in Japan.
I really wanted one bc they look adorable
I drew a silly face on mine and named him Steve, then made a little paper Mad hatter-like top hat and gave him a suit from one of my old plushies, along with a paper bowtie that I also made for him. For three years now he has been my butler who holds my hairties :)
I used to draw in high school. We had a Secret gift exchange around Christmas, and someone actually got me this wooden mannequin. I never understood why they gave me such a thing. So, I broke it off from its base and hung it from my bookshelf with a string, as if it were on a gallows. It's been there for 10 years, never used once. And after seeing them in this video, I still won’t. Either it takes me to the grave, or I take it.
IDK, George Morikawa uses them for Hajime no Ippo and will straight up draw them into panels where someone is explaining a motion a boxer performed. Sometimes it helps me visualize the movement better because it's isolated and has less visual clutter associated with it. (Not that Hajime no Ippo has frequent visual clutter, it's just some movements can be difficult to follow panel-to-panel)
I bought one of those wooden hands during the pandemic, mainly as decoration but to also practice hand anatomy. I realized how bad it was so quick, even though at the time I wasn't too interested in drawing hands. I realized that it was too stiff and it wasn't as versatile as your own damn hand. Even though back then I had really chubby hands, I'd still prefer to use them (or references from the internet) over the damn wooden hand.
My dummy is fantastic for silently judging my bad art.
22 seconds is crazzzy🤯
I got gifted a "how to draw manga" starter kit a while ago, because my family got wind of me trying to learn to draw. I know it was gifted to me in good faith, but I generally dislike getting gifts that are tied to my hobbies, that I did not explicitly ask for. That kit contained a mechanical pencil which I still use to this day, 3 types of fineliners which I have yet to try out, one such mannequin and a small booklet "explaining" how to draw a character using the mannequin.
The instructions in that booklet were bad, like really really bad, comically bad I must say.
Instructions for drawing the head were: Draw an oval and divide it into 4 equal sections. Next draw the jawline, add ears and eyes on the horizontal line you drew to divide the face. Now add eyebrows above the eyes, the nose is placed halfway between eyes and chin and the mouth halfway between nose and chin. Finally add hair and you are done!
Instructions for hands: Draw a rectangle, add 5 ovals (sausages) to it. Use your own hand as reference and done!
For proper body construction: Step 1: Pose the mannequin. Step 2: Sketch the mannequin onto paper. Step 3: ????. Step 4: A finished drawing.
Don't get me started on the Shading and Perspective pages they have done...
That's it throughout the whole booklet, no fundamentals, no proper construction, they either give you the worst kind of instructions, or they basically tell you "You'll figure it out! :)".
To this day, that mannequin is sitting in its box, never seeing the light of day, unless I want to laugh at the instructions in that booklet.
Instead of using this for drawing I used to use it as an action figure and my child brain made it a super powerful hand - to - hand combat machine that my other action figures had to use to get better at fighting lol
they make for cute lil dinky desk ornaments that i can dress up and do silly poses though
One day, after someone advised me to buy one, i went and saw what it could do, noticed that it couldn't move its legs on the side, and then went back home with good paper instead