Study group - hips and glutes 1

New month, new challenge in the Love Life Drawing study group: hips, thighs, and glutes. This is an anatomy topic, but rather than getting into the technical aspects of the bones and muscles, we’re starting with basic, simplified forms. The drawings are anchored around the the little triangle formed by the hip bones and butt crack. Butt cheeks are two soft cushions beneath that, often featuring a little button — the greater trochanter — that breaks up the curved surface. Kenzo used a variety of techniques to describe thighs at various levels of detail, but here we’re focused on just a simple tapering cylinder.

While doing this set, I felt like I’d lost control of the chest volumes. I wasn’t drawing rib cages, and wound up with distorted spaces. In feedback, though, I learned I am also still tending to straighten the figures some, here taking the form of trying to make the butt cheeks symmetric rather than letting them skew to one side of the other naturally. All told, though, I don’t hate these figures.