Again, start with your "G".
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Once you have laid in a complete GCAT drawing in one view, draw out lines the touch key points such as construction shapes, details such as eyes, navels, and other stuff. You will draw to these lines and not past them. Remember these are your character's proportions, drawing shapes etc past these lines will throw off the proportions of the character.
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Go on the the next drawing, this pose in the turn should be the breakdown. This pose is drawn after the keys are complete and describe the action between pose to pose. In this case, this particular pose breaks down a 180 degree turn and thus, shows a 90 turn or the side view of the character as it turns from left to right.
Because drawing a turnaround between stringent lines will make your stiffen up, be sure you remember the implied gesture of a pose. Do not let yourself leave out the gesture of any step in the process, or else you get this visual vulgarity. I joke about this but I see it all of the time.
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Flesh out this gesture to get a good profile view as shown below. notice also how the arm gently curves back to offset the weight of the trunk.
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...And then flesh it out.
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Almost done now-you can see where we are heading by now. By applying the steps mentioned you can draw in your 3/4 rear to complete this turn. Note that the amount of perspective incorporated into this is minimal. Assume you are looking through a 75mm to 100mm lens and the horizon line to which everything recedes passes through the center of the figure at about pelvis height. Don't overdo the perspective of you figure our it may blow out the proportions.
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This character is a simple bean with gesture at it core.
And constructed with simple shapes including mitten hands and wedge feet.
Now that we have some hard masses we can plot out the rest of the body positions for the turn. This will be an 8 point turn or one that rotates the character in 360 degrees, some times all that is needed in a turnaround is five poses; Front, 3/4 front, side or profile, 3/4 rear, and rear referred to as a five point turn. The eight point turn is just a little more thorough from a motion stand point. The back gesture is shown next because it would be a key if animated. I would suggest NOT inbetweening your way through a turnaround, stuff can get out of proportion if you do so.
Here is an in progress of roughing out the gestures of most of the poses in the turn, this helps to see how the figure will appear to turn and to see where the poses will end up on the page or screen, and also acts to keep the drawings loose and hopefully prevents them from stiffening up.
Lay in your construction over the gestures, be sure to line up the corners of the hard masses with the ruled lines as shown above, doing so will make things easy and keep the proportions correct.
After a little time you will get a roughed in version of your character. At this stage the character will be cleaned up but I left it ruff as is to better get across the rotation of the construction shapes and how they conform to the gesture(s) of the poses. More to come from here, stay tuned and have fun drawing!
Here are some notes from a previous turnaround lecture...
Below are some good examples for your perusal. Enjoy! I hope this helps with your turnarounds.
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5 comments:
Thanks for the post, one question though. Is it cool to change what they are doing in the turn around? Buster is pretty inconsistent.
cool thanks!
Would this be the same for, say, a manga/anime character drawn digitally?
My English is very bad and I apply the google translator, I never see you refer to use a light table, I say that it is essential for the views, it is a compendium inbetween and aesthetically pleasing drawing of the correct
Jumpyham, yes. Modelsheets are all created with the same concept. The character is posed and that pose is seen from multiple views. Even 3D characters are conceived this way. Doesn't matter if it's traditional or digital. Sorry it took so long to answer your question.
Leonardo, A light table or light box is a great way to create your turnarounds. I tend to just use animation paper if I'm working traditionally because I find that the light table tends to stiffen up the drawing. if you're working digitally, use layers or an onion skin function.
Thanks for your comments folks, sorry it took me so long to get back to you.
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