Any tips on how to get the arcs right in figure drawing? I've already memorized most of the proportions, but I'm stuck on this page
>>7711451They're just circles
This is useless. No one thinks about arcs like this. The girl has a super ape torso with giant shoulders and arms and a tranny neck. Never look at this reference again and just spam gestures.
>>7711489This one is not going to make it
>>7711451Yeah, loomis' essentially just says to 'feel' it out, which I think is good in the sense that you shouldn't be anal about everything, but also useless when you DO want to be exact and check things over.Jack hamm has a page about arms and leg arcs, and how the arms' and legs' arcs are tied to height, though I'm not to sure if it'll be useful outside of drawing a straight standing figure, maybe it'll help you?
>>7711451its just too mechanical, just draw what looks good to you, dont worry so much about all this,
>>7711451get a 3d model or figma to use as referencelearn perspective and learn how to draw boxes at any angle
>>7711536kek
>>7711536I just wanted to draw funny cartoons and anime
>>7711451Are these autism arcs?
>>7711451I used my compass from math class back when I did this exercise, but after a while certain important measurements that you use in every drawing become second nature
>>7711451>>7711526based snow angel drawing guides
>>7711542then study from a book more specifically aimed towards that
>>7711542just study your favorite artist, screw the books
>>7711575if you're just aiming to copy a style in a surface level, at that point just use AI and get a lora of the style you want. AI basically does the same thing anyway
>>7711581This one does not know what a master study is.He will not make it.
>>7711589master studies won't work if you don't know the basics in the books retard
>>7711573Don't i have to master this book first before even attempting to move on to cartooning? Also, what books should i use
Studied Loomis...and other things Kim Jung Gi never did.
Turning art into a chore is a very male failure mode. Meanwhile women who've never heard of this Loomis fellow are making a killing on the market with loose and colorful styles. Why can't hardheaded, frustrated men see the forest for the trees? Is it just an ego thing?
>>7711792no, this book is one of many that teach anatomy and figure drawingnot all things will make total sense, i mean loomis isn't right there to reexplain things that you might not get try to shop around for different figure drawing, and probably beginner drawing, books. then, try to look back into this book to see what makes sense or not
>>7711792You will only improve at cartoons the more you work on fundamentals, doesn’t mean you have to wait until you finish the book to draw cartoons. Take a break from this to study something different for a day and it’ll be easier to get unstuck when you come back.
>>7711792no, why would you need to master a book to do what you want, do what you want now, dont wait for permission, you've already got permission to do what you actually want
>>7711581define style, what are you saying? dont copy artists you like?
>>7711451It's like the other anon said, it's just circles. You also need to know how to draw ellipses.
>>7711808You are comparing urself to someone who studied for decades
>>7711451Despite how diagrammed everything looks, it's there to help show the thought process on how to *use* proportions. Doesn't mean you actually have draw this shit out all the time.As the title of the plate suggests, arcs are useful for maintaining proportion with extended limbs, it's a quick and easy way to think about it, especially in perspective. This is where some experience in drawing freehand boxes and cylinder helps a lot, you have done that, right?A few pages later in the book you can see it being used, you can even apply this idea to a simple "stickman".
>>7712182>freehand boxes and cylindersEh...
>>7712345Ive mastered basic shapes but idk how to rotate cubes...
>>7711451Can I see the art work that you did to memorize this?
>>7712581Sure thing! Ill post my work if asked to.
>>7712572then you didn't master anything
>>7711870this
>>7711451>another analytical autist desperately searching for a magic formula to apply to all of his drawingsDraw some fucking gestures and figures in various poses retard, this isn't math class.
>>7711451draw the arm in as many angles as you can on the same body. Just do that. Draw shiva
>>7713766Yeah but what if i dont get the proportions right
