 Okay. Are we live? Let's see here. Let me see. Let me look. Is it rotted and covered in gook? Bup bup bup bup. We're live. Hey Michael Reynolds. Hey Beep bup. Hello everyone. Hmm. Thought I had some additional light here but it went out. The light went out so we'll be sitting in comparative darkness. Okay, so it's been a while since we've had one of these drawing, not drawing streams, learning how to draw streams. And we'll just pick up and continue from where we started or where we stopped last time. Hello everyone. So what I'm doing in these streams is simply going through Bridgeman's complete guide to drawing from life because it's kind of a difficult book and I've gone through it many times and I like going through it once in a while to understand a little bit more. If you want to know why it's a difficult book and how it was written, that's a fun story and I think I tell that story in the first two episodes. You can still watch this episode and then go back and re-watch the earlier ones if you want to follow along. Poo-poo day. Happy to be here. Poo-poo. So last time we ended on a rhythm and tried to understand what Bridgeman means by the rhythm of the art and we'll probably get a little bit back to that but now in a plot twist we're going into twisting and turning. Okay? So first I'll just start by reading. Yeah we'll read this whole page and then we will be drawing some of the sketches in order to figure out what it means and how we can use it in our art. In a human figure there are the masses of the head, chest and pelvis. These are the masses we've been over in every extreme so far. Each of these has a certain height, breadth and thickness. Considered as blocks, these masses balance, tilt and twist, held together in their different movements by the spinal column. As they twist and turn the spaces between them become long, short or spiral. So where did I put the... I don't know where I put my silly little dolly that we made. Yeah I find it, I find it, sorry. So here is our beautiful little doll and as you can see if we start twisting these in different directions then basically all we're going to be drawing is what happens here. It squeezes together here and it stretches and becomes long here. Okay? Today you're like a new teacher in Hogwarts giving online class. Yes definitely. No. Calling all who are British okay. Let's read on. We might liken these movements and spaces between the masses or blocks to an accordion when it's being played. Here we have an angular viral active side and the result of forcing the ends or forms towards each other and by this action compressing and bringing together on the active side. The pleats of the accordion, the opposite... now I'm fumbling in the reading, sorry about that. I need to understand this sentence before I read it. By this action compressing and bringing together on the active side the pleats of the accordion, the opposite or inflated side describing the gentle inert curve. So basically if you have an accordion once one side goes together the other side opens up. Sort of. The blocks or masses of the body are levers moved by muscles, tendons and ligaments. The muscles are paired one pulling against the other. One pulling against the other. Like two men using a crosscut saw the pulling muscle is swollen and taut. The companion is flabby and inert. When two or more forms such as the chest and the pelvis are drawn violently together with cords and muscles tens on the active side the inert passive mass opposite must follow. There is always to be considered this affinity of the angular and curved objective and subjective active and passive muscles. Their association is inevitable in every living thing. Between them in the twisting and bendings of the body there is harmony of movement, a subtle continuity of form, ever-changing and elusive. There is the very essence of motion. So this is, we've gone through this a few times, but it's one of the problems with Bridgeman's text is that it gets a little bit too heady and what he is really trying to say is it's not an exact thing in nature. It's not like if I bend the finger like this, the tendons draw the finger to curl. Yes this becomes the active side but it doesn't really remove the angular on the opposing or passive side. So what he's trying to say is more about how to capture that movement in the art. So we'll just start by sketching some of, yeah we'll start by sketching this accordion. So you can see what he was talking about with, because accordions aren't as popular anymore as they were in the 1920s I guess. So this is our accordion and if you start drawing a chest for instance upon that then you see here becomes the squeezed sides and here becomes this here comes the stretched side and what Bridgeman does a lot of time is say that we need to have a harmony here that if this side is stretched then the next part here should be the stretched part and this should be the active part but that is in order to bring, in order to express a certain balance or harmony in the visuals. It's not necessarily how the body actually works. This is Bridgeman's complete guide to drawing and you can go back to the earlier episodes to see it from the beginning. One side compresses the other one contracts yes. Now we'll try to apply a little bit of what he talked about here in the sketches and we'll start by drawing our little blocky figure. Now that just to make sure this point isn't lost I don't draw a blocky figure for instance when I do my ink drawings and I don't really draw a blocky figure at the base of my art but I still sort of think about that blocky figure and that's a very easy way to conceptualize the angles of the body and if you want to draw me to draw requests you can watch the live stream on Thursday and suggest things before that when I put up a community post. Okay let's try to copy this one a little bit like this and then as the torso is turned the other way and that is a really special move he's doing there so this means these two sides are towards us these two sides are towards us and these two sides are towards us that means you get an active side down here where a lot of compression is going on and you get the passive side where things are relatively stretched and here you see there's the active side here so therefore Ridgeman puts the passive side the next active side here because he likes the rhythm and that's not necessarily a thing that you have to draw every time but it is a good way of getting a sense of dynamics and movement into your art. Okay speaking of polls I'm very excited for Monday Tuesday yeah so I will be putting up the next poll for the next draw draw what stream on probably tomorrow or Tuesday but sometimes things I'm one person doing most of everything here alone and speaking of it which if you want to support me in what I do so I can do more of these tutorials or more art learning stuff or more drawing for drawing requests or more of everything then please consider becoming a channel member consider becoming a patron and most of all consider buying some of my originals from my web page that's probably the best I've toyed enough with this one starting to get a little bit wonky here well we'll accept it still it's especially present when you have a bend on top of a bend I don't know what that comment was in referral to I'll just use this to sort of highlight a little bit of what is going on here because it was a messy drawing looks like a statue of a Greek god yes these are very much based on the ideal of beauty from the Greeks and the Romans and that is of course a bit bullshitty but you the principles here as far as I've found you can actually apply to any body shape it's just that it's easier to see what the body is doing when you have a body with a low fat percentage and bigger muscles then it's easier to draw also are we allowed to ask questions yes you are allowed to ask questions but preferably about how to draw and we can save the other questions for other streams and I think that today will be a still a shorter stream because I will probably just do this chapter because I am still kind of exhausted after Oslo and after that little travel okay so now we have the basics here and we see that it compresses here and it stretches more here and we can do the same at every part compresses here so therefore it must stretch there and stretches there so it must compress their action and inaction and that of me something I struggle with yet you have to practice a whole ton up on anatomy in order to get any good at it and you know one of the reasons why I do these live streams is as an excuse for me to actually practice my anatomy drawing more because over the last few years of doing so much ink directly with ink drawing my anatomy skills have probably degraded a little bit they have at least not improved my there's a lot of skills I have that have improved but just the basic knowledge of the anatomy has not do you find it more difficult to draw a gender over the other yet for me I find it easiest to draw a masculine presenting bodies I'm sort of I was reared on superhero comics and all of that jazz so that's what I'm most comfortable with and I would and I've never been that interested in drawing women what's your favorite anatomy pose who I mean in my all-time favorites are these sort of poses where people are the for instance caught in an explosion of flying through the air and trying to grasp I love doing those types of poses where every limb is flying in another direction let's see what's happening with these I'm more of a cartoonist so all of this which I'm doing now is cartooning and cartooning meant originally when you took your transferred sketches in coal from a cardboard from the paper the carton the cartoon and you transferred it with over to a canvas or the mural or wherever you were going to paint it then you had to exaggerate the line work in order to transfer it over and it is that exaggeration simplification and exaggeration that is what we call cartooning so even though this is relatively speaking it is on the more realistic end this is an example of cartooning these are cartooning skills and everything here can just as well be transferred over to more little feet cartoons as they were called at the time and yes so everything here is these books were hugely or these books and the classes Bridgeman taught were hugely influential on all sorts of American comic book artists American animators American concept designers etc etc I'm trying to learn how to draw comic style I'm really enjoy using the DCS new 52 and rebirth stuff for reference but I'm just starting so it's hard so so a lot of the anatomy you find in this one was crap a lot of the anatomy you find in DC comic books are things that ultimately go back to teachers like Bridgeman he was especially influential on the comic book field because people like Jack Kirby John Bushima Frank Fersetta and Will Eisner were inspired okay again what we're looking at here is the turning and twisting of the different shapes we're trying to find out how they twist and how they create a active and a passive side but I'm noticing I'm dead tired today so so sorry if not everything is up to spec we're just trying and that's the thing that that's one of the things that I want people to realize is that for instance if you have if you think you have this thing called an art block or creative block you can still do stuff like this and even on the days where you're drawing suck and you're not pleased with everything you're still learning a little bit maybe you're learning a lot it's not necessarily so that you learn the most from doing good work you learn from your mistakes as well and from struggling and this also has to added benefit of making you ready for when your creative block stops Grant Morrison's Invisibles is another use for conceptual ideas but anatomy I go straight for Kirby you shouldn't go for Kirby when it comes to anatomy he is first of all Kirby was never incredibly gifted as purely as an artist he he always had a wonky style because he was always this is no slight against Kirby he was always so enthusiastic and eager to draw the stories that that things had to make way for his ideas and one of the things that made way is anatomy always he took things like the bending of anatomy and stuff like that he took that from for instance from Bridgeman but if you see that the genius of Kirby is in his storytelling in his ideas in his compositions in his way of moving the reader's eyes from one point to the next in the flow of the story and if you want to see an example of how that's done but with more correct anatomy then look at John Bushima because his great genius was you know he was a great artist but he also was among the first who understood what made Kirby special and translated it into a storytelling language that was a little less idiosyncratic yeah I'm bad so like I like how simple his shapes were yeah but but the thing is especially if you are early in your anatomy journey you should you will develop your own mistakes no problem we all develop our own mistakes and idiosyncraticies and you know even people like you know like John Bushima or Frank Fressetta or other who had a real mastery of anatomy beyond what I've ever had they still have their idiosyncraticies they still have their weird little stuff you know and Kirby has what makes his art great is that he has so much of those idiosyncratic things but if you work of Kirby when you are a developing artist you will how can I okay I can perhaps try to show you let's say we're done with this page and I can try to show you let's say um Kirby I'm going to draw um yeah let's say we're drawing a fist like this okay I'll hold it up against the camera like that and if we draw it realistically I'm going to just do this very uh quick we see that you know the the fingers are sort of going towards each other and we can see a little bit of the bend here and and we see how the yeah how everything is sort of bulgy and um sort of rounded and then Kirby would take that and make it more blocky and he would probably simplify things like uh the thumb not draw it around there but you know choose to simplify it and it still worked because it still was based on his observations of things and he was notorious for not using reference for anything so it one of the reasons why his work is a little bit wonky but if you take this sketch and take and make that and then you take that sketch and you base yourself on that then you will start adding mistakes to it so so because your move you're working with an extra layer of abstractions you're you're inheriting some of Kirby's mistakes and and uh idiosyncretesies and adding your own to that and that that makes it sort of doubly bad which is why a lot of people a lot of artists working in comics or in other types of that art still says that no matter if you want to draw a cartoony you should learn the anatomy stuff you should do life drawing you should do all of that stuff um because the more layers of abstraction you have between yourself and what you're trying to draw the more wonky it gets in a way and the less um the less unique it becomes the Kirby I know is a little pink orb creature the most powerful creature in all of nintendo do you think this book is good for someone who is new to anatomy and books or would you recommend a different book I would recommend getting this book and trying and failing to um to understand and repeat draw the drawings I would recommend drawing through this book many times that's how I learned there is probably some other book on the market that's better but I think there's something here that that at least is valuable for me who's your favorite philosopher that's not an art question I don't know if I have a favorite philosopher I I don't really read uh I don't really read period I don't read much philosophy okay let's do some of these examples um here uh oh oh my god let's try to figure out these first and when you you copy things from this book you can copy them very loose because they are very loose drawings or you can try to um you can try to copy them much more detailed and I know that uh one of the ways other artists are using this book is that they will copy the barrier of sketches and then they will render them to completion because there's no light and shadow here for instance there's no texture there's nothing of that so what's your opinion on the fascinating anatomy of creatures in bloodborne uh I haven't played it enough I did never could get past Father Gascoyne that's bothered me for a long time in terms of you know from soft games um they do have a lot of weirdness or an anatomical weirdness in them and uh for instance if you if you uh get some of the art books for from soft you will see that the style is very much based on sort of a uh uh almost generic and kind of loose uh manga take on on western fantasy uh and the concept artists for from uh they are not among the concept artists that put the most detail and accuracy and refinement into things like anatomy but they more than make up for it with their imagination and you can see how how many uh different variations of each character or monster they go through and how they play around with the the different um costumes and drawing the layers of the costumes and all of that is just it's really fascinating what do you think of the mother earthbound series I haven't played them so I don't think anything of them okay so the purpose of this pair oh thank you the caffeinated thanks for all the great shorts glad to catch you live glad you caught me live thank you so much for the super chat super chat are very very appreciated we're we're trying to get the financials to yeah to to not have to worry about other things than you know drawing and making good stuff and to also be able to expand our business so I can do more and anything helps I mean super chats buying from the website uh membership all that helps more than you can ever know thank you so much so basically what's happening between these is is showing one straight position position and one slightly turned okay I will start by doing let's start by doing very basic straight position have you read Berserk too little I probably read the first book or so back many many years ago when it was still new I don't read much I don't read much comics anymore or manga and that's not the fault of comics or manga that's just when I quit being a comic book artist it became really hard for me to read comics because I my head just wants to think of all the comics things so that's why I haven't really paid attention to comics or manga for years so here is the basic pose pose like straight legged then if you tilt one of the shoulders down you get this compression here and you get the opposite stretch so that is basically all I think he's trying to show with this one and then we'll jump over here is there like a wishlist for where I can forget when I can contribute when I get more scratch there isn't but that's a good idea but right now the very best way to support is buying originals but they are a lot more expensive of course than the than the print and merch and like how's it like living in normal it's pretty normal living in normal I was reading it while figuring out the joke I was going to reply so I botched the joke how is it like living in Norway it's pretty normal I don't know how to quantify I haven't lived many other places so yeah the point with these sketches is to show that this is the same figure as this but from different with different twists twisting this way and the legs are still the same is snow bothering there's not much snow here that's why I mean that's the whole thing about Norway is that we have the Gulf Stream which makes the winters pretty warm for being so far north and also the base or the fjords ice-free most of the year all of the year kuff kuff patron kuff kuff patron is a good way of of supporting as my lovely moderator and patron I think a non-crazy crazy cat lady suggested and I will one of the things we've been talking about doing as a business we don't have like any chance to pay people all over the world for doing stuff but we do have chances for instance for people who want to moderate stuff like that to to give out some original songs and walks so so but we need to make a system for it so it becomes fair and understandable yeah so this is post number one and then when he twists then this goes further back you get a this was hard to do it would be easier to do if I found my eraser but I'm not finding it today yeah so inland in Norway there is a lot more snow but but but on the coastal side of Norway there's not that much snow I just made a mess out of trying to explain these drawings and we're just about oh we have a lot more I'll just very quickly try to do these and show how yeah here is this pose from one side okay so I'm going to answer a question which I don't know if I should because it seems like a troll comment because of the name panty sniffer 69 that's not a good name to have on the internet young man did nissa steal my eraser but but I'm going to to answer yes nissa stole it I'm going to answer the question seriously still because why were you diagnosed with bipolar I have these mood swings that go over months and that's what you call they have such a pattern that you call bipolar and I got the reason why I got diagnosed was to figure out a little bit more of how I function to be able to have something on paper when I try to get help and also to seek out knowledge from others who have experienced similar things or live with similar problems the reason to get a mental health diagnosis isn't to be defined by what that mental health diagnosis is it isn't to say I'm bipolar and there's nothing you can do about it it is to better get help for whatever's making your life hard and you know in my case my head is making my life hard much more than any other element my head is making it hard with a quagmire avatar yes so so I'm 90 percent certain 95 99 percent certain okay these two are just trying to show the same pose from different sides I've had people refer to their bipolar as unipolar I've I've heard that phrase but I haven't uh is that unipolar is when it is mostly a depression right or mostly one of the two states and for me yeah my bipolar which would probably be unipolar not at all I love you thank you not at all mental health it's just as if not more important than physical health and physical health is a really really important part of mental health that's one of the things that get overlooked and physical health is a really important panty sniffer you can change your nickname so let's see what's uh happening here I'm not going to I'm not going to engage more there uh so start with the different solids and how everything connects the table is watching you yes you noticed these googly eyes I absolutely love them and they're also really good for illustrating how to come up with ink monsters because you can just make uh ink blot and then put an eye on it and it'll be an ink monster it was to refer to bipolar more accurately to their experience it's a way for them saying that during their bipolar episode they can only focus on that one emotion okay so that's very different from me because I both in my high periods I still have depression and in my low periods I still have capacity for uh I still have capacity the capacity for uh joy just it it's not joy that I can sustain okay this here is just showing different movement in the pose uh but you know what I noticed that I'm so tired that I will quit the drawing here and uh and uh will continue next week and just do the rest of them as some warm up sketches so then I can answer a few of your questions before I end the stream okay how does that sound I got diagnosed with PTSD and man did all that help with my brain working against me yeah for a lot of people it can help to have sort of uh uh label to put on why the brain is working against them how can someone become a mod to help you well well the best way is probably to become a part of the discord community preferably through patreon because then I can actually put a real name to not just an account um nice to meet you I love your channel and I'm an art student just starting my own youtube channel good luck with that it is important for artists these days to have a presence on things like youtube hi what do you recommend for aspiring artists have fun play around draw a lot draw a lot of different stuff use different tools uh use different techniques use different approaches have fun play around when you find something you want to learn more about learn more about that take courses read books study maybe it's for you maybe it's not move on and find something else that's fun play around play is a vital part of learning art one good tip for artists getting started don't give up once you make a mistake in a piece see it through yeah so I'm going to qualify that a little bit so so there are two types of things that beginner artists often do and both of them are sort of to protect themselves and none of them work to protect themselves but one of them is that some beginner artists think that every time they put hand to paper or or pencil to paper they have to draw a complete image with every detail represented and sign it and it's a complete work every every picture has to be a complete work and that is a really lousy way to learn because that's just not how it works you have to do stuff that's just sketches sketches like these that are not supposed I don't sign this sketch why would I it's just a sketch okay sadly I don't have access to patreon it's banned for us yeah sorry about that of course well you know be an active part of the community and and post on my different channels and accounts and so that I get to know you that's sort of the important part so the other fault that beginner artists do is after a while they start realizing that sketching is important and then all they do is sketch they never complete a work and that's okay but after a while it becomes a defense mechanism because the reason why they never finish anything is every time they try to finish something it doesn't live up to what they thought they would be able to achieve so instead of facing the loss of seeing how little you know they avoid it by never finishing anything and you always have an excuse for not finishing things and you always have an excuse for why things didn't turn out as well as they could that's the same for every artist all the time every drawing I've made I can give you five reasons why it's not as good as it should but that's just making art so even in a period where you're learning you have to force yourself to make a finished drawing once in a while because that's how you see how long you've come and how long you still have to go I've done that many times I've stopped that more recently it helped a lot even when I did finished stuff or I come back to sketches if I want to finish stuff yeah I've had this letter issue with 3d modeling for like two years before I learned to just go through with it yeah you have to go through and make finished things that are sub optimal and after a while they will get better now I'm noticing that yeah I need to end this live thank you so much for sticking with me I 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