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Published: 2011-08-18 17:55:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 192159; Favourites: 5608; Downloads: 3216
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I kind of wish I didn't have to pick between traditional and digital for this (aren't things like Anatomy and Perspective kind of useful in both?) but I went with Traditional since that's what I do.
Pose is in the gallery here:
You can find more perspective and foreshortening poses in my gallery in this folder !
Pardon spelling mistakes and general rambling. I promised *shuu-bunni I'd make one of these.
DON'T FEAR THE FORESHORTENING! ATTACK IT WITH VIGOR!
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Wonderful! I've always had a problem with foreshortening, the relationships within the body especially was helpful ^^
THANK YOUUU
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One of the best tutorials I have ever seen.
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Definitely useful! I actually went looking for a tutorial like this a few days ago and came up short. This is great. <3
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Thanks so much for this tutorial!
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You know...I never thought about using lines to keep your proportion in line
I have always been drawing what I see and using prospective lines, which I dislike, and your way seems a little better
I will keep that in mind
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cool!! There's lots of methods and they are all pretty useful; more useful when you can combine lots of things!
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will you discuss this in a tutorial sometime soon? I am just curious
or or YOU are ART SMART!
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You mean how to combine different methods?
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I guess so? o.o
But nevermind, I think I will try something else
Sorry for wasting your time D:
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haha no worries! Always looking for new ideas :3
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I don't know if you have already discuss this but how about those perspective lines? The lines that lead up to a vanishing point and how a pose fit in between those lines. I found so little about dynamic poses and wish to improve upon it. Any tip?
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Oh yeah! I've never used them but I can imagine they would be pretty useful for at least visualizing the core or sections of the body being foreshortened in space if you don't have a reference. I use vanishing point for things like buildings and stuff, but those have straight lines. I imagine if you practice you could get pretty good at using them for people, too.
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This is incredibly helpful! Thank you!
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Very well done!
I'm one of the people whom always sees it as an arm or a leg and not a rectangle or whatever it is in the pose.
This tutorial helped me out so much. Thank you for posting this!
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yay! I hope you can draw some crazy awesome perspective now!!
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Going to practice ASAP. Have to find a ref pic somewhere first.
>.<
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Check my gallery, I've got a whole folder that's perspective and foreshortening
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Sweet I'll go check that out later tonight. ^.^
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This... this is absolutely amazing and exactly what I've needed for ages. Thank you so much.
For the longest time I've been able to become pretty decent at skeletons-- being able to get the general idea for the body; but my foreshortening has always given my issues. It just never looked quite right. What you've show here is sort of a combination of both skeleton and form-- both which are necessary for being able to pull off dynamic poses.
The ironic thing is when I was young, I was ALWAYS drawing from form; I didn't understand basic anatomy so I did my best by copying what I saw. When I discovered skeleton technique I abandoned form, thinking it was a juvenile method of drawing. You've shown me that it wasn't-- it just needs a good understanding of both.
So seriously, thank you so much for this-- I'll be sure to put it to good use!
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Awesome! Yes, never abandon your old tools, just add more to the kit!
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This is very helpful! 
Also, that kitty in the top corner of the picture every time just amused me to no end. (It's so cute! My cat sniffs shoes too!)
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haah thanks :3 his name is Earl. He's in a lot of my stock photos xD
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thanks for taking the time to do this.
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you cant believe how amazingly helpful this was. thank you so much, i was trying to foreshorten the other day but couldnt get it right. at all....
so for this, an applause, my lord.
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yay! go try it again and DEFEAT IT!
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reference? who uses reference? LOL
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It's a hell of a lot harder to improve in drawing figures without reference. Not trying to be rude but that's the point of figure drawing and such.
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iveneverused, but im not everyone like ive said :3
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hahahaaa! im not lots of people ):
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There's probably lots of people who also don't use references, too! It's just a tool.
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i know, i might start using, and this might come in handy
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This is awesome thanks for sharing.
Something I definitely want to try out.
Thanks again!
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very helpful and awesome guide! Thanks so much for making this (:
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Foreshortening is indeed a challenge. Thank you for creating a comprehensive guide for "attacking" it 
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