Digital Maquettes - Sketching Your Pose

Hello! Here is a collection of digital maquettes that I have created recently. Each figure uses the DemoMaquette.ZTL.

The goal of each of these maquettes is to establish the basics of the pose as well as to learn more about the structure of our bodies. Each pose teaches me something that I didn’t know before.

Belly Dance: Back Bends

To understand the anatomy of the back bend, I used the following videos for reference:

The blogosphere is also a great place to search for reference!

For example, Sabreena’s blog, The Voice, has some great educational videos to help us understand both the motion of belly dancing and, through the videos, analyze the anatomy of it as well.

Flight:

Flight came from my imagination while imagining Storm from the X-Men in flight.

You can see the recorded process here.

Heart Broke Loose

The Heart Broke Loose maquettes are an exploration of a line from Pablo Neruda’s poem, Poetry, “my heart broke loose on the wind.”

After reading the poem the other day I had the vision of some broad strokes or archs almost like the Nike swoosh. After some initial thumbnails I jumped right into creating these poses.

My friend Paige Bradley has some great examples of figures breaking loose on the wind. I really love how she treats her conception sculpt here.

Energy

Energy is an exploration of how many axis of the body I could line up in opposition to each other and still keep a coherent whole to the pose.

To learn more about the human body in motion I recommend the following resources:

• Bridgman’s Complete Guide to Drawing From Life: Over 1,000 Illustrations
• Anatomy of Movement
• Kinesiology: The Mechanics and Pathomechanics of Human Movement

Click here to download the DemoMaquette_Female model

Click here to download the DemoMaquette_Male.ZTL

For video tutorials supporting Transposing see the list below:

• Action Line
• Topological Masking
• Transposing
• Using Scale and Move

Happy ZBrushing!

Ryan