This is a picture of George Bush I receiving a copy of Babe Ruth's biography. Ol' HW certainly paid attention to parts of the story, if the reports are to be believed.
Lately I've become a bit fascinated with leg/torso ratio. He has a long neck too. And it takes his head, his long neck and torso to equal the length of his legs.
I've been watching a lot of K-pop dance videos. The males bring an insane somewhat frightening military precision that expresses group conformity over individual expression, yet in that tiny window allowed the individual burst through with their excellence. I cannot overstate how much this has influenced my ASL song practice. My aim is to do it like Korean 17-year-olds. The females do the same thing but less explosively and with more wildly flinging hair and clothing that obfuscates both precision and individual excellence into mops flopping over the whole picture. And the whole time I'm thinking, "your legs are so short!" Their pants are like 27": 27".
This is important to me because my Egyptian figures come out too short unless I stretch out their legs ridiculously. I got a serious case of dysmorphic disorder. I had a peek at this key frame for .01 second and determined the legs are too short. Same way I used to draw them. I'd start with the torso then add the legs. 50/50, then add the neck and head, and then the legs would be too short. The first video at the top of results. A guy is hand drawing Egyptian anthropomorphic gods. All in a row. Lined up. Just like I used to do. I'd put my modern self in them. And they're all too short and fat. I hope it's still at the top because the actual video does not show it. Egyptians had this codified by grids. Portions of bodies fit inside numbers of grid spaces. A human hand is large as a human face, and so on. Then, through dynasties, the canon changed. Then, after political disruption, a yearning for classical age brought back the classical artistic canon. Tut is an example of this. The figures in his tomb are painted in conformity to classical grid. There is an abrupt switch backward. To get the correct proportions you must decide which canon to use for your grid, then adhere to body proportions therein. You can't just wing it. But I do. And I wing it by stretching them out. Like young George H.W. Bush. He'd make an excellent Egyptian model for drawings and paintings.
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What an interesting photo. He's all legs.
Lately I've become a bit fascinated with leg/torso ratio. He has a long neck too. And it takes his head, his long neck and torso to equal the length of his legs.
I've been watching a lot of K-pop dance videos. The males bring an insane somewhat frightening military precision that expresses group conformity over individual expression, yet in that tiny window allowed the individual burst through with their excellence. I cannot overstate how much this has influenced my ASL song practice. My aim is to do it like Korean 17-year-olds. The females do the same thing but less explosively and with more wildly flinging hair and clothing that obfuscates both precision and individual excellence into mops flopping over the whole picture. And the whole time I'm thinking, "your legs are so short!" Their pants are like 27": 27".
This is important to me because my Egyptian figures come out too short unless I stretch out their legs ridiculously. I got a serious case of dysmorphic disorder. I had a peek at this key frame for .01 second and determined the legs are too short. Same way I used to draw them. I'd start with the torso then add the legs. 50/50, then add the neck and head, and then the legs would be too short. The first video at the top of results. A guy is hand drawing Egyptian anthropomorphic gods. All in a row. Lined up. Just like I used to do. I'd put my modern self in them. And they're all too short and fat. I hope it's still at the top because the actual video does not show it. Egyptians had this codified by grids. Portions of bodies fit inside numbers of grid spaces. A human hand is large as a human face, and so on. Then, through dynasties, the canon changed. Then, after political disruption, a yearning for classical age brought back the classical artistic canon. Tut is an example of this. The figures in his tomb are painted in conformity to classical grid. There is an abrupt switch backward. To get the correct proportions you must decide which canon to use for your grid, then adhere to body proportions therein. You can't just wing it. But I do. And I wing it by stretching them out. Like young George H.W. Bush. He'd make an excellent Egyptian model for drawings and paintings.
I wouldn't count on much on any rumors about 41 past a little fanny pinching.
If the Lefties could have nailed him with it, they would have.
Are we back to copping a feel? We're hopeless.....but not serious.
Chip, if it helps. drawing the legs too short relative to the upper body seems to be a natural mistake most artists have to fight.
Great pic. Reminds me of how thin Sinatra was in his youth.
On it.
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