Assignment 8: Combat!

    •    In preparation for Homework #9, read the text: Drawing Drapery from Head to Toe, by Cliff Young, Dover.
    •    Complete 1 line drawing in good proportion.

Your drawing must show two people in hand to hand combat. Your characters may be engaged in a fist fight, a play fight, brawl or wrestling match. There should be no weapons involved. Poses should feel authentic and have movement. Identify the general thrust/direction line to your attacking and defensive poses.
Your characters should be drawn without clothes.

You may use reference as inspiration for the pose you choose but make your drawing in different perspective from your source. I would suggest looking over a lot of ref, sketchbook in hand, to pick up salient anatomical details. Thus to avoid the "Made-Up"-looking bodies that plagued many Assignment Sevens.

This drawing should be roughly 10" x 10", neat with, strong simple contour lines. Take the time you need to perfect the anatomy, proportion and foreshortening of various body parts. When finished, set your drawing aside and reassess it the next day.

Please amuse and enlighten yourself with the attached illustrations of combat both faked and real! Notice that Line of Action is a huge factor in the differences between real and fake.
JH

P.S.: Note the foreshortened limbs in the last photo!