(fig 1)

Directed study for Week 11,

Using the anatomical drawings of torsos provided, I created three sketches.

The first of these is above (fig 1), in which after a couple of quick plans, i decided on a pose of a man picking up a box.

The First key point was to show weight, having the man's shoulders in line with his knees and feet were important for this. A slight problem came when doing the back, the lowest lines show the adjustments made.

The second point was to get the right tension in the muscles. The shoulders and neck are stretched, allowing a belief that the arms are holding something heavy. As the arms are relaxed, they would not show much, but a slight bulge on the lower arms conveys the pull of the invisible box.

(fig 2)

Picture 2 here came to me from an idea about Death from discworld.

In order to show the muscles properly, i removed a prop and drew it away from the main Torso.

With a more relaxed pose, the muscles dont need to look bulged. It also means that the muscles needed to look slightly sagging. In order to achieve this, muscle forms were started from the top point in order to become looser lower down.

Tension in the biceps shows that the lower arms are raised rather than just moved, being held in place.

(fig 3)

The Final Pose created is designed around someone playing cards, crotched and hunched up as to not show their hand

 the chest muscles needed to look very tensed up, to infer a hunched frame, with the neck down low.

It is a very tricky piece  and i did not do well with it. the arms are to splodgy, the shoulders are bigger on one side and pretty much everything is not proportioned correctly