Nothing can help anyone but themselves.
Tutorials just look pretty, and they usually give a fraction of help.
Coloring tutorials especially, they dont tell the person what colors to pick.
This tutorial shows the shapes, does it show proportion to everything else?
No, the rib area is shown as a trapezoid, great, thats correct. You didnt show anyone what the size is suppose to be. How tall is it suppose to be? Compared to the hips? The head? How wide?

You drew the abs nicely. But you didnt even show anyone how to draw the abs.

Meh.
Yeah, I know.

Actually (not that you could read it since it was so small), I DID mention that the BEST way for you to learn is to draw from life.

I REALISE that the tutorial isn't very informative. But I wasn't about to spend time to go in depth with something that someone was going to skim over. I've done so in the past and all I got in return were people that DIDN'T read the tutorial and DIDN'T understand the stated purpose for the tutorial and were HIGHLY critical for all the wrong reasons. So I'm not going to spend hours on something people don't care for. People like formula. It's unfortunate, but true. I cannot show someone how to draw from life, but I can show they how I draw from my head.

The MAIN focus of this tutorial is to show guidelines or underdrawings. These guidelines are IMPORTANT because they help the artist to easily convey the shape and form of the body. They aren't concreate but they are there as underings to what is to be drawn.

I based it off of the rib cage since no matter how tall or fat someone is, the ribcage will always remain the same.

I didn't show them how to draw abs because, like I said in the beginning of the tutorial, not all abs LOOK the same. Some abs look like that, some don't. You're alot better off looking at the real thing than studying a drawing someone else did.

I don't think any of my tutorial is necessarily correct because how I draw is probolly different from alot of people's drawing. A great artist probolly draws differently than I do, but hey-this is how I draw.


I asked for no critiques because I wanted to avoid having arguments on things that I'm not going to change. I did what I did and how I did it because it's a tutorial on torsos and not proportion. The torso's a pretty important part of the body and I think that it should be focused on. I didn't want to start getting into proportion, not only because I thought people wouldn't read it but I wanted the tutorial to have a focused point. Which is why I didn't even get into arms.



Soooo, can we drop it? I would really like to avoid getting excited on teh internetz.

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Oh, Im not dissapointed or angry or anything. Im pretty neutral on this.
Yes its a tutorial, and yes it shows how you draw. Thats great.

Yeah I know.

I'm emo and easily irratated.

*e-hug*

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Thank you a lot!

thanks

This tutorial helped me out a lot in understanding this portion of anatomy. Thanks.

YOU'RE WELCOMES


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very useful [;

yeah but it did kinda sound like an attack... besides, there are anatomy books and tutorials EVERYWHERE which show you the measurements but not my of the technique side like this. I personally want more of these kind of tutorials as im getting sick of the proportion measurement tutorials everywhere. This is exactly what i've been looking for

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