Hey guys, welcome to another critique video.
I got a bunch of new submissions from you ready to be destroyed.
Just kidding, I'm gonna try to be nice.
You guys are doing a great job.
Thank you, for everybody who's submitting all their assignments in the Facebook group.
You guys are doing a good job, but I noticed in this one that there were a lot of very
similar errors.
For those of you who didn't submit any assignments, since there are so many people doing the same
few common things, there's probably a good chance that your doing the same thing so pay
attention.
These are common mistakes that I'm seeing with the triceps.
I'm gonna go ahead and get started.
The first submission is from Eryk.
Poke Place?
All right Eryk.
So, I wanna start off by saying I really like the way you're studying.
You're taking notes as you're watching the videos.
So that's a lot better way of retaining the information.
If you just watch the videos, you know, you'll remember some of it.
But if you actually take notes you write down the things that you didn't already know, you
draw little diagrams of the things that you're learning much more likely that you're gonna
remember this stuff if you actually take notes and you draw.
So great job in the way you're studying.
I wanna point out a few things a few little notes that you took.
This is great, the shape of the tendon that's a very important one when you're drawing triceps
and specifically this last one.
This shape here because that's really the final shape.
The the four shapes you drew, that was kinda like me describing how the actual shape of
the tendon differs from just a vertical box with like a house roof on top.
So the final shape that we actually want to look for is this bottom right one that you
drew.
The things that are important to know about that shape, this top plane is diagonal and
this one is a little bit more vertical.
So the one on the right, the lateral one, is...it's diagonal, but it's almost horizontal.
The medial one is diagonal but it's more vertical.
So they're not like this, they're not symmetrical.
And then also the fact that the tendon overall has an angle to it going outward.
So with that in mind let's look at these two drawings you did here.
This first one look at the tendon shape you drew, you drew the first one it's not correct.
You gotta look for the roof going like this with a little shorter one here.
Also, it's a little bit longer or it should be a little bit longer than you indicated
probably up to here.
The tendon varies a little bit.
Some people have very short tendons some very long tendons, but in general when you're learning
these diagrams you're kind of just creating like a idealized version, right?
You're not drawing anybody specific.
So when you're drawing these idealized diagrams try to draw an actual idealized version.
And short tendons like this, short symmetrical tendons like this, are not idealized.
This right here, that's the idealized version.
So one of the most common issues that I'm seeing with you guys in these triceps assignments
is symmetry.
Too much symmetry.
Let's look at this muscle.
We already talked about the tendon being symmetrical, but there's also the muscle bellies.
These shapes that you drew, they're two exact same shapes, they're at the same level, they're
are the same size, and they attach to the tendon in the same way.
They're way too symmetrical.
What you wanna look for is the lateral head being much shorter.
So let me erase these little notes that I got start a fresh page.
The first thing you wanna look at or think about is the angle of the apex points from
lateral to long head.
So for example, on this one kinda like the middle is like right there, right?
The apex of that curve is right there.
On this one the apex is probably a little bit lower on yours.
So you kinda have an angle like this, because this muscle is going all the way down here.
It's gonna be the opposite, you wanna look for an angle this way.
So let's draw a better tendon in here, something like that, that's the tendon shape we're gonna
see.
So this shape I like for the long head you did a good job.
But then the lateral head, this is the apex here, I'm gonna draw the lateral head apex
all the way up here.
And then you can do a little tail coming down from that.
And then medial head, don't forget about the medial head.
Okay, so that's how you're gonna find asymmetry this is gonna be a repeating thing I'm gonna
mention throughout these critiques, because a lot of you guys are doing this.
But, on your second page I notice that there were a few of them in here that you did add
asymmetry to so that's good.
This one is a little a bit more horizontal and then more vertical.
And this one with a little bit lower long head, a little bit higher lateral head so
that's good asymmetry.
Also the tendon shape is a little bit better.
But, in here you kind of have two of the same shapes again.
So I would have brought this one up made it a little bit more horizontal.
Same thing here too much symmetry.
And then also you labeled medium head, you probably mean the medial head, but I don't
see it on your drawing, right?
It would be right through here.
Remember it lies under the tendon.
And it kinda pokes out mostly on the inside of the arm but sometimes a little bit on the
outside as well.
And this tendon is way too short.
It would be like that, that long.
But I do wanna point out one more thing that you're doing that's actually really good.
I like how your containing your shadow shapes.
You see how you have this really nice outline?
You could have adjusted or been a little more specific with the edge that you're using.
You're using a hard edge around all of these in this drawing specifically.
Try to put some softer edges, some firmer edges.
Vary up the edge a little bit to describe the form better.
But the fact that you're containing your shapes, you're gonna get a good three dimensional
feel already, just by really clearly separating a light plane from a shadow plane.
And the reason I'm bringing this up is because you'll see in some of the future critiques
in this lesson, I point out a few of you guys are not containing your shapes very well.
You're using crosshatching but it's very ambiguous, very soft and incomplete and the forms don't
look very three dimensional.
So you'll see that later on and this is a good example of somebody who is containing
the shapes.
So keep that in mind.
All right, that's it.
I hope you guys enjoyed this lesson.
If you did there's a bunch of other critiques in the premium section.
I go over a few of the other common mistakes I noticed for the triceps lesson I talk about
asymmetry, avoiding just bubbly shapes- bubbly forms and just trying to make your arms more
dynamic.
I talk a little bit about shading and how to not just do 2 dimensional shapes and all
that stuff.
So a lot more stuff in the premium section, if you want to go check it out it's at
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Alright guys thanks for your support.
Bye.