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Built4ever — Arm of the Architect
Published: 2010-12-17 22:01:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 1712; Favourites: 2; Downloads: 76
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Yes, that's a self-portrait. Yes, I do architectural drawings and design. Yes, it's the first time I try to draw my body in some way. Yes, it's a small sketch done in pencil, then toned to terra cotta on the computer. Yes, I lift weights. Note: changed file on 12-19-10.Related content
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Nice shading, and proportions! I always find both incredibly complicated when drawing humans/organic things... With the machines I design there are clearly defined parts and I know exactly where each is, but a human is just one big solid figure which bends in complicated ways... it's harder. That's what I get for starting drafting at such an early age I suppose.
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Thanks Steamstrike! The human body is an incredibly well-engineered machine that lasts about 80 years and needs only fuel, water, and a little lubrication to keep on going. When you draw the hip ball joint as a skeleton, you realize what an amazing machine it is. Since drawing the body in last 2 years, I have only wondered about the possibility that it could have evolved from a primordial goop. It's too complicated and perfect.
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The human body seems much less well-engineered when I'm designing humanoid robots, haha... Most of my job is designing robots for automated factories, which is just a form of mechanical engineering, but I've worked on alot of other projects... including a personal project which has lasted from 2004 until now, making complete fabrication drawings for a real-life Terminator robot. Working with humanoid robots, the inefficiencies in the human design become very apparent... for example, most of the human structural/actuator dynamic (the way the muscles and the bones work together) is based on Class III Leverage. If I'm designing a robot arm which is based on a human arm, with hydraulic cylinders representing the biceps and triceps as they lift a piece of metal representing the forearm which has a hand holding a 10-lb weight, because the relation between the biceps and the forearm is a Class III lever, the 10-lb weight may be a 1000-lb live load on the hydraulic cylinder. I'm sure I don't even need to explain the amount of deflection that causes in the forearm.
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You don't think I can curl 1000 pounds?
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I just think it's inefficient for a lever to turn a 10-pound weight into a 1000-pound live load on an actuator.
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My reply to inefficiency is that growing an arm with muscles and bones and stuff from a single cell is pretty good stuff, and the shape and efficiency is determined somewhat by the "growing" aspect of this machine. In other words, imagine designing something that replicates from one cell, then splits repeatedly, to achieve a specific shape. Mind-boggling of course. One of the guys who discovered DNA said it was far too complex to have evolved here on earth over 4 billion years, so it must be from someplace else.
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nice work. the human muscular system can get quite complex.
Oh and I saw this on the home page right as I logged in. LOL
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I've been drawing female physique for 2 years. Time to try male. More definition, fer sure. I lift weights so you learn how to name and draw each particular muscle. Interesting exercise.
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