POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Curiosity : Re: Curiosity Server Time
11 Oct 2024 01:24:19 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Curiosity  
From: Nekar Xenos
Date: 8 Mar 2008 04:05:50
Message: <47d256ee$1@news.povray.org>
"Mike the Elder" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message 
news:web.47d18160430c9a655a8888d90@news.povray.org...
> It warmed my heart to see so many people acknowledge that learning to draw
> rather well is a pretty challenging task requiring some real effort. (BTW, 
> that
> was genuine feeling and not sarcasm - I've been told that, with me, it can 
> be
> difficult to tell sometimes.)
>
> I'd like to take a moment to encourage anyone who is interested in 
> learning to
> draw the human figure to look into the works of artistic anatomist George
> Bridgeman and his "constructive anatomy" technique.  Although I generally
> recommend his work even to a general audience, it seems to me that his 
> approach
> is ESPECIALLY useful for POVers in that he breaks down anatomical 
> components to
> basic solids.
>
> A good introduction can be found here:
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/334333/Constructive-Anatomy?ga_related_doc=1
>
Looks a bit like subdivision modeling  ;-)


-- 
-Nekar Xenos-


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