Anatomy is About Rhythm

Sheldon shows how anatomy on a finished figure drawing should create rhythm.
(video 26)

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[sheldonsartacademy]

Check out the video on anatomy.

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Curve vs curve.

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[montyblanc512]

I seriously need some help with this. I can draw the body from memory with almost perfect anatomical accuracy, but I just cannot wrap my head around rhythm. I'll draw things that people say would look like 100% real bodies if not for their awkward poses. I just cannot understand rhythm. I don't see it.

[waellerbe]

I like your concept of anatomy as "rhythm" and I also like the way that you incorporate arrows into your drawings. Good stuff.

[stinky472]

@Zafoshin Oh sorry, I was replying to your original post asking about what arrows have to do with rhythm. I just noticed your later comments saying you understood already and I wasn't trying to argue anything, just answer your original question.

[Zafoshin]

@stinky472 ...how much simply can I put it?....I get it/understand/agree etc...

I appreciate the description, but u maybe trying to be argumentative when I'm not, not so much...

[stinky472]

@Zafoshin upwards as there is a dark stem of the line below and it naturally tapers and fades off moving upwards. These directional thrusts might even coincide with the way Sheldon drew the figure (making strokes in the same direction that the lines suggest).

[stinky472]

@Zafoshin The rhythm comes down to the strokes: the lines which move and flow around the forms. The arrows suggest the direction of the flow, though your eye may not necessarily move along the picture in that direction (if there's anything hotly debated about composition, it's the direction in which people's eyes are supposed to follow). However, there is a natural flow in that original drawing. The line going up along the obliques, for instance, really does seem to originate below and move[...]

[karismatube]

troppe parole , piu' fatti !!!

[Zafoshin]

Note how my reply states that I understand the whole concept of the video and agree with you, thus dodn't need a reply either from u or vejicakes explaining to me the very things I continiusly and extensively try to explain to u both I understand....

[Zafoshin]

Yeah, like when u dance if u don't get the rythm you'll screw up, same here. U must daw these curves-muscles in a way that they succed 1 another with balance...ur saying the same thing...I know what rythm is, I am greek and I have lerned traditional greek dances that are all about rythm!