02-10-2016, 01:59 AM
Koen, I chuckled all the way through your proportions blog (yes, I actually read a blog post for a change).
What you've done is interesting and I look forward to future installments.
My opinion is that the proportions of the VMS drawings are not so terribly off, it's that the illustrator has no sense of underlying anatomy (muscles, bones, and especially joints). They are drawn with a 2d view of a 3d world and quite clumsy in that respect.
They're not bad, they're better than some people can do and attention to detail throughout the manuscript is pretty good, they're just not rendered the way an artist sees the world, which includes what is inside and behind the subject of the drawing in addition to what is seen by the viewer.
What you've done is interesting and I look forward to future installments.
My opinion is that the proportions of the VMS drawings are not so terribly off, it's that the illustrator has no sense of underlying anatomy (muscles, bones, and especially joints). They are drawn with a 2d view of a 3d world and quite clumsy in that respect.
They're not bad, they're better than some people can do and attention to detail throughout the manuscript is pretty good, they're just not rendered the way an artist sees the world, which includes what is inside and behind the subject of the drawing in addition to what is seen by the viewer.
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