Every experience in Life changes the Brains Anatomy. “Deepak Chorpa”
In this addition to my adventures one thing stands true that I am even beginning to notice, practice and progress are key the discovery of our own skills. This opens doors and shows you that there is not one true way in the world to truly accomplish a goal or to accomplish a task at hand. As my usual start I went with pursuing my drawing skills more often than sculpting to move forward in my progress. I choose to use a bone structure to build the muscles and makeup of the legs last time, but this time I took a more chunky approach to the way the torso can be built. I wanted to find an easy way to get the big shapes in. The lateral, abdomen, and oblique, in other words, the lower part of the torso, seemed like a great place to start. The Linea Semilunaris, and Inguinal Ligament are quite defined in many figures throughout my search and quickpose references sketching. The Asis appears sometimes as a bone structure on the outside for few, as then the External Oblique protrudes in ways to give a way to display fat, etc. There are many different shapes and builds, along with forms and structure of the human body, but I tired to find reference of the male human body close to the one I am sculpting from the The visual guide to Anatomy by 3D total publishing. I wanted to find similarities, possible iterations, and ways to come up with making the torso overall, so that it resembles the reference, or does not quite resemble the reference but is still correct.
From the External Oblique I worked up to add in the Rectus Abdominis, Transverese intersections, Linea Alba and the Pectoralis Major, most of which was done in the mirror mode so that way I would not have weird deformations on each side of the body. I left the external Olique in a big shape for as long as possible to build from. This allowed me to switch to the back and start adding in the Latiissmus Dorsi, Scapula Muslces and then the Trapezius. I was able to then add in some Serratus Anteriors. I thought for a second that I may be going over board before going back to the sculpt overall and making iterations to from the reference images, but I saw I missing some major detailing pieces of muscles that show throughout the structure. I left the sculpt in big shape form again for as long as possible to add in the missing pieces to structure puzzle I had in front of me.
I then began to adjust the big shapes, and noticed I completely missed something. I spent a few hours going over each piece, hiding them, rebuild the sculpt and moving things around to finally realize there is a very important piece I missed, the Latissimus Dorsi, which I thought I may have already sculpted and shaped into the sculpt, but I came to realize that I just moved around the big shaped rib cage to make it look like it was there, but then every time I made iterations, it began to get buried in the sculpt. I added this within the iterations, made some improvements with time spent visually inspecting the reference to sculpt, and my final output is displayed below. Enjoy!
