Hey guys welcome back to another critique episode.
I'm gonna be critiquing your quadricep assignments probably everybody's favorite muscle group on the legs.
Maybe second to butts.
Nothing's gonna be as interesting.
Maybe feet, maybe feet will be more interesting.
And we're gonna close off with feet so that will be fun.
So, let's begin...
I'm gonna start with Pamela May Green.
OK, Pamela, so I feel like your gesture is fine, your poses don't look stiff.
The portions look fine.
Yeah, I don't see any major proportional errors.
Structurally it might look a little bit flat but I think some of that is coming from your
line quality, it feels very uptight.
Like I feel like you're like flexing your hand or something and you're not loosened up.
So, that might just come from a little bit more mileage, a little more experience with the pencil.
But everything looks like you're just pressing down really hard and your strokes aren’t
flowing very well.
And sometimes having a stroke like that that's very uptight makes things just appear flatter
and two-dimensional.
You know, like if you draw a line like this versus like that, these kinds of lines have
motion and when you draw a form like this, that looks flatter than if you draw form with better line quality.
For some reason, it carries a little bit more volume to it and that's what I feel like is
a lot of your lines are like this where it's...
They're just very timid, like you put the pencil down, you draw it, you end it, you
bring the pencil back up.
Use your shoulder, loosen up a little bit.
But that's unrelated to anatomy.
So, as far as accuracy and anatomy, I have a few things that I'm seeing here.
I'm gonna start with this guy, I think that's Laura, her left leg, the Sartorius looks very
skinny on both sides actually.
And this guy - very very skinny.
This is very skinny, kind of wobbly.
Looks like you're drawing really slowly and you got this wobbly line happening because
you're drawing so slowly.
If you just use your shoulder and try to draw like an s-curve, your lines will be a little bit cleaner.
You know, faster motion, just - you know, you're avoiding all those wiggles from your
hand shaking as you slowly move down that line.
But yeah, it's also just too skinny and it feels flat.
Then in the glutes, looks like this whole area right here, you didn't really define
what it is, you just kind of threw in a shape, a flat shape.
I would define that - this is the gluteus medius in here and let's bring the reference back in actually.
And this is the gluteus maximus over here and then the gluteus maximus continues down
but right here we have a little bit of fat that kind of pinches out on top of the gluteus maximus.
The gluteus maximus continues through here and attaches to the IT band and you see right
in here, that's the bottom of the IT band, so right there.
And so you didn't really define that IT band and that's very important especially on the
side of the leg where we're seeing...
You see this flat area right here?
That flattening is caused by the IT band pushing in.
I'm pretty sure that this out here, this bump on the outside is the hamstring, it's not
the vastus lateralis.
I think the vastus lateralis kind of ends just right after the IT band and then we have
tendon of the hamstring and another hamstring coming out.
So, the vastus lateralis would be just up to here, maybe I should change the color.
So, the blue will be the hamstring and you can see this tendon right here.
So, the parallel tendons on the side there, one from the IT band, one from the hamstring
coming out from the back and they're somewhat parallel, they're not actually parallel and
I will go more into that in the hamstring lessons.
But yeah, just keep in mind guys, I think you guys aren't differentiating between the
two tendons on the lateral side of the knee.
Right in here, the quad tendon you kind of have this weird shape that's going off to the side.
Make sure you're showing a flattened, like a vertical tendon coming up here attaching
to the rectus femoris.
And then, even in here like your rectus femoris it's like...
There's this weird triangle shape that's...
I don't know, it's kind of an extra piece.
Here's the muscles that I'm seeing; tensor fasciae latae, Sartorius right through there
and then biceps femoris goes into there.
Or not biceps femoris, sorry, rectus femoris goes in there.
And then in here, there's this quad tendon, you can see a very clear bump and see how
yours is going diagonally in here.
This one is more vertical, vastus medialis on the side, vastus lateralis through there,
okay?
And kind of a similar thing in here on this side, you're not really showing this quad
tendon reaching out vertically, attaching to the rectus femoris and then the vastus
lateralis attaching to the side of it.
You're kind of just outlining like rectangular shapes, you're not thinking of them as three-dimensional forms.
You know, like this is a form in here attaching to a top plane of the patella and then there's
a front plane to the patella and a side plane, you know.
These are forms that need to be tracked and they have volume and I feel like you're just kind of going...
Shape in here for a muscle, shape in here for another muscle, shape in here for another
muscle and there's a patella and then whatever is left in between is like, oh there's the quad tendon.
You got to think of all of these things as forms and track them correctly.
Make sure that if a muscle starts here, ends here, it doesn't go like this and then at
the very end the tendon kind of has to do a little wiggle thing to connect to the plane.
Make sure the muscle flows from one point to the next point and there's a gestural element
to it and it's not just a flat shape.
Like if I delete all this, I mean look at the shape you designed in here for this.
It's kind of an ugly shape you know, I don't like the shape of that muscle.
It doesn't have a good flow to it, it's kind of symmetrical and it doesn't look like it's
attaching to the patella.
It looks like it flows in here and then ends up right there.
So, it's not going to the right place.
Same thing with this one; this is maybe a little more attractive, it's more accurate
to what the rectus femoris actually looks like, but and again, it looks like it's attaching
to the side of the patella.
So, you're designing all these muscles as just kind of flat outlines and not actually
thinking of three-dimensional form.
Just because you're adding these cross contour lines doesn't all of a sudden just turn everything
into three-dimensional forms, the way you draw the shapes has to be based on three-dimensional
forms, you can't just add things to a flat shape and then think that it's gonna make
it 3d all of a sudden.
If I look at the model here, this whole form right here is the Sartorius.
It's pretty thick and she's a very thin person.
I wouldn't say she's buff, she doesn't have large muscles and her Sartorius is that thick.
If you look at someone like Anthony over here, very very thick Sartorius in here.
Look at that, very very thick Sartorius.
So it's a long skinny muscle but it has form, so don't just draw it as like a little string,
especially when it's active.
So, I would say for anatomical studies, just don't worry about the shading.
Do shading studies, specific shading studies where you're focused on depicting form with tone
when you're a student and you're having too many balls to juggle is just too much,
you kind of get lost and confused and then nothing ends up working out.
So, pick your battles, focus on something and then if you want to improve on something else, focus on that.
Eventually once you get good at both, you can start kind of connecting things together
and then you know, eventually after ten years or so all these things are just second nature
and you're doing drawings that have all these elements together and it's amazing, right?
But drawing is so complex, you have to break it up.
You can't learn everything at once.
Thank you everyone who participated.
I really appreciate you putting yourself out there letting me critique you and you know
that helps other students who are watching this to see what you're doing and learn from
your mistakes so thank you guys for submitting this.
Only a few more lessons away from concluding the anatomy course.
We're four years into this.
I hope, some of you guys have been here from the very beginning.
Thank you.
I really appreciate that you guys are really, you just stuck around for all these years
and you're doing all the assignments.
Thank you.
Ok bye guys