Sensible Erection | Skull reference photos

Friday, 19 September 2008

quote [ Inside there are 15 high res skulls at different angles and cut out from the background. So get your Wacom tablet set up and spend an evening drawing over these reference photos. It’s fun and really great practice. ]

some resources for the designing masses who, like me, collect and store reference material

[art] [by mhy@5:22pmGMT] [+10 Good]

Comments

Narrenschiff said @ 5:23pm GMT on 19th Sep
No guide to the bones of the skull?

buzhidao said @ 11:57pm GMT on 19th Sep
html lazy:
http://www.gwc.maricopa.edu/class/bio201/skull/skulltt.htm

spookyliz said @ 5:24pm GMT on 19th Sep
epic. thank you.

maryyugo said @ 5:41pm GMT on 19th Sep
pelvis next?

maryyugo said @ 5:43pm GMT on 19th Sep

Asscheeks Akimbo said @ 5:50pm GMT on 19th Sep
Tailbone, not coccyx.

ramwatcher said @ 6:32pm GMT on 19th Sep
A cross between a human and a dog?

maryyugo said @ 6:37pm GMT on 19th Sep
an explanation of why it doesn't work?

TheLittlestNihilist said @ 7:29pm GMT on 19th Sep
Is that a washer in his ball or is that what you guys have in them things?

TheLittlestNihilist said @ 7:30pm GMT on 19th Sep
looks more like a cheerio or apple jack

lost said @ 10:05pm GMT on 19th Sep
actually it looks like a nut...
....
heh.
no really.

f00m@nB@r said @ 11:15pm GMT on 19th Sep
almond joy!

puppet said @ 5:51pm GMT on 19th Sep
Great find!
Thanks for sharing.

teknokracy said @ 6:00pm GMT on 19th Sep
So get your Wacom tablet set up and spend an evening drawing over these reference photos.

So in other words, stay home on a Friday night being a shut-in artsy loser? Count me in!

stormshine said @ 6:57pm GMT on 19th Sep
".....spend an evening drawing over these reference photos."

This struck me as funny as "drawing over" is just tracing and while someone may learn from tracing, you learn more by looking and teaching your hand to do what your eye wants it to.

I am still trying to train my hand to do who my eye wants it to.

animus kadmon said @ 8:05pm GMT on 19th Sep
Try video games. FPSs work wonders on eye-hand coordination.

theolypse said @ 12:36am GMT on 20th Sep
I doubt that's quite the way he wants to frag them.

animus kadmon said @ 1:55am GMT on 20th Sep
Probably not, but (at least I think) it's a great way to train your eye and your hand to sync up easier, which translates to better control.

Of course, that could just be me justifying the amount of time I spend on CoD4.

Scaryface said @ 8:51pm GMT on 19th Sep
Learning the proportions of the skull is incredibly important when your shooting for a believable looking person and tracing can help you quite a bit to this end. Being able to draw from reference material is a valueable skill, but it's a seperate one from learning proportion. Actually, proportion is important when drawing from reference, but you learn the pencil measuring trick and its all gravy after that.

Tracing may not sound very artsy, but its more about putting the shapes to memory then it is copying the shapes from sight reference.

mrcucumber said @ 9:00pm GMT on 19th Sep
Sorry. I disagree entirely. It's about copying, and while copying, understanding. It is more learning cognitively what the shapes are, adjacencies, and why they exist, as well as the process of looking and learning. Simply tracing and committing it to memory by rote is not learning. This I find to be a major mistake in the learning process, in every learning institution I've ever attended. Memorization teaches you nothing. It teaches you to memorize only. The what's, not the why's.

Any figure drawing class will teach eye-hand coordination as well as seeing shape, form, and light, and understanding how they all work together in three dimensions. There is a huge leap from tracing to creating the same thing independently.

Scaryface said @ 10:03pm GMT on 19th Sep
I'm just not of the opinion that copying is an entire waste to the learning process. Theres more to drawing, especially at the early stages, then regular figure and life drawing classes can provide. Tracing practices a few essential skills of perception and eye training that build the basis for a good art education. You need to be able to decide what lines are important to focus on and which can be ignored. Visual references are great, but some people need a little more practice on line weight and proportion. They need to be able to break down the shapes of something directly. While tracing seems juvenile, its something alot of beginning artists need to take into considerations before making the jump into speed drawing a live model. Tracing seems like a waste to an accomplished artist because at that point, it probably is. You most likely no longer need to practice the essentials and would rather just sketch the skulls for practice.

In every figure drawing class I've been in, there's been a hand full of people that don't understand the basics. They make every line hard and impossible to erase, they have no concept of the proportions of the body, don't understand distance, I could go on. It's not their fault, they aren't skills most people take the time to hone. I'm just making the case that tracing things, like a few skulls, might be a good stepping stone to sketching from reference. Especially if your sketched skull looks nothing like the original.

I don't know about you, but when I started to actually practice drawing in grade school, it was on tracing paper.

Mr Coffee said @ 2:13am GMT on 20th Sep
And im done...

mrcucumber said @ 2:49am GMT on 20th Sep
I'll take one t-shirt, large. !00% cotton.

animus kadmon said @ 8:04pm GMT on 19th Sep
And look at me with Dias De Los Muertos posters to finish this weekend.
I wish I could say thanks on behalf of the community, but I'm just gonna say thanks for saving me 10 from-scratch illustrations. Sure, I still have 10 more that aren't skulls, but it's a lot less pressure now. Plus I won't have to ref Kostnice again.

HoZay said @ 8:41pm GMT on 19th Sep [Score:1 Underrated]
I hope you're gonna post those.

animus kadmon said @ 1:51am GMT on 20th Sep
I would love to, but NDAs are a bitch. I'm honored that you would ask though.

-_- said @ 1:54am GMT on 20th Sep
Maybe you could post them the day after Dias De Los Muertos?
... please?

Jewbacchus said @ 9:10pm GMT on 19th Sep [Score:3 Underrated]
this is fun

highfive! said @ 10:58pm GMT on 19th Sep
These is awesome. I have a anatomy midterm in a week!

Fuck, who am I kidding, I'll be here instead.

highfive! said @ 10:59pm GMT on 19th Sep
Fuck. That should be a... well, an.

buzhidao said @ 11:56pm GMT on 19th Sep
is a caucasian adult male skull type. please study alternates for female, negroid, mongoloid, elderly, and immature human skull morphologies. thank you.

-_- said @ 1:57am GMT on 20th Sep
Got any pictures of intentionally deformed Aztec skulls?

Is this legit?

buzhidao said @ 3:16am GMT on 21st Sep
that is pretty awesome. looks asian/caucasian, definitely elderly. guessing female.
nice deformation, but quite unusual. is teh chop?