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mayshing — CDs quick Shoulder tutorial
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My manga series 2Masters | My manga series E-depth Angel | My facebook | My tumblr As requested.
Now i will go back to animating.Anatomy shoulder area tutorial, dos and don'ts.
Edit: added different kinds of common stiffness.
Edit 2: this tutorial only serves your conceptual purpose, showing you what is the correct base to use for construction.
How to use this tutorial: Start by applying the base shown in the tutorial, keep the moveable parts of the shoulders in mind when you practice.
What this tutorial will not do:
- It doesn't help you with proportional/perspective problems comes with using the construction.
-it won't improve your skill unless you go and find more references and practice.
See: for general anatomy references and tutorials.
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go have a look, we have thousands of links there on anatomy.
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This is for concept only.
for further reference, you should go either spend the money on anatomy books and stuff, or go to websites and fine pics for study.
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thanks alot.
tutorials are always always awsome and urs is no exception. it eally helps with getting down the basics and everything.
i see u only did guys bodys there too.....very interesting...
lol
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i can do girls, just guys are faster with explanation, their muscles are more defined.
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true true.
and personally, they're just funner to draw. less curves.
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well this is neat! *practices I'm not the best when it comes to drawing different positions and I can never undrestand why. Good advice!
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Nice tutorial. 
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O_o the way I do it? lol~
I sometimes fall into stiff shoulders too i am trying to decrease those ratio. XD
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lol, I don't know if it's the exact same way you do it, but I draw the shoulders as circles. I like drawing torsos, first, though. XD
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torso is a good place to start, some even recommend it to be the only place to start.
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Thanks for this! Shoulders are really hard for me.
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Ahhh, I learned something new today! xD
...-freeloads-
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I remember back when I used to draw stiff shoulders =w= yeah all the way back in... *checks gallery* ... crap.
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Hoo boy. I don't draw stiff shoulder, but ugh. The scapulas.
I should pay more attention to their movement, I totally forget them until both arms are supposed to be stretching up. When really, I should always remember them...! Thanks for the great tutorial.
The only time I EVER draw stiff shoulders is when men are wearing stiff suits with shoulder pads! ^__^;;
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actually i forgot to mention the other kind of stiff shoulders.... paper doll shoulders.
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This is great. But I didn't request it. I was hoping you would take someone's bad art and circle the problem. lol
Oh well. *hugs*
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... everyone DOES seem happy about it. (continued from my other reply. XD)
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thats kinda mean. lol~~~ Its better i draw my own stiff shoulders.
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I could have been volunteering my own.
Although, I draw my underdrawings with a ball for the shoulder joint, so maybe I'm not on the list of people who need help here. I always need help for OTHER reasons, though. *laughs hard*
Thanks for doing it, regardless. You're right: it's more informative this way and...
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Awesome! This helps a lot, Thank you :3
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...And that was the wrong emoticon.
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Awesome.
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That's really helpful and easy to understand
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This is very helpful! Thanks for doing this in your busy schedule!
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20 mins of my time.
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Hm, not bad! Still, sacrifice...
XD Hah, Me, I'm always distracted
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SUPER comprehensive, I've been to anatomy classes and this was a refreshing reminder! Thank you!
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Wow. I was pretty aware of some aspects of the shoulder + the scapula, but I didn't know that the shoulder also rotates when the arm does. *v* I'm very happy and thankful you did this quick little note about shoulders.
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The joint is a ball shape, of course it rotates, just not that much, and it's not apparent, at most you see the muscle moves a bit, but it does rotate, conceptually speaking, (someone can say i am wrong though), but in animation if you don't put that concept down, you will immediately notice it's like a robot turning shoulders instead of a human. So my point proven. It rotates.
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Thank you so much, this is really helpful, I needed it 
*is a freeloader*
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Yay! That makes total sense and I think I've been quite guitly of the stiffyness you explained. I guess no one explained it right. Thanks for the helpfulness
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ur welcome.
Yeah, the whole reason i did it is because i saw no good explanation either, i can't do the short cuts and find someone a link. lol
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I thought I replied to this...
I can say one thing about this tutorial, it made me really conscious about shoulders in other people's drawings as well as my own.
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good tutorial. I started understanding shoulders a lot more when I tried drawing mechs for some reason XD
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Very useful. :3 I'll have to remember this, and practice with the concept!
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Good pointers. May, I was wondering. From what you saw of my work, are there any things you see that I could definitely improve upon?
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you are excellent at your drawing craft, the thing i would mention is... do more color studies and more painting studies, that seems to be your weaker area. 
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I love you. XD Thankyou so much for this tutorial!!!
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