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Did Frank Frazetta's Bridgman challenge help you?

Here's the free book pdf on Scott Eaton's website: https://www.scott-eaton.com/outgoing/books/George-Bridgman-Constructive-Anatomy.pdf

>>3232219 (OP)
I made this image and carried out its challenge January 17th of this year (the thread is probably available on an /ic/ archive, or you can use the /loomis/ board on "8gag" if you so choose). It was extremely difficult but very doable. I think it was kind of interesting to do for the novelty but I don't think I'd take it extremely seriously as a study method.

Many of Bridgman's illustrations are somewhat inscrutable and at the time they were made they were probably meant to be used as reference material in the presence of a live model-or at the very least by an academically trained artist that was doing a lot of life drawing. Looking at the images shown in that picture they appear to perhaps convey the major planes of the figure (that might not be readily apparent under a harsh stage light) moreso than drawings that are useful for their anatomical accuracy-most if not all of the images being similar in that regard.

It's an interesting anecdote to try and recreate a for yourself and a fun challenge don't get me wrong, but in all honesty it probably would have been a better use of my time to draw actual figures and anatomical features from reference photos.

>>3232219
I made this image and carried out its challenge Januray 17th of this year (the thread is probably available on an /ic/ archive, or you can use the /loomis/ board on "8gag" if you so choose). It was extremely difficult but very doable. I think it was kind of interesting to do for the novelty but I don't think I'd take it extremely seriously as a study method.

Many of Bridgman's illustrations are somewhat inscrutable and at the time they were made they were probably meant to be used as reference material in the presence of a live model-or at the very least by an academically trained artist that was doing a lot of life drawing. Looking at the images shown in that picture they appear to perhaps convey the major planes of the figure (that might not be readily apparent under a harsh stage light) moreso than drawings that are useful for their anatomical accuracy, and I recall most or all of the images being similar in that regard.

It's an interesting anecdote to try and recreate and a fun challenge don't get me wrong, but in all honesty it probably would have been a better use of my time to draw actual figures and anatomical features from reference photos.

>>2951946
Frank frazzeta would disagre as well

>>2724625
Yeah I set it up, here's the image. I think only me and one other anon actually went all the way through though, and I don't remember if they actually posted their results or not-it's been a while (9 months and 15 days, apparently)