04-10-2013, 01:30 AM
Hello Evan
Not sure where you get those sizes from, In one book I have it gives 1.8 for super-heroes.
I make out that in Carlo's Republican figures the ratio is about 1:6 and yet you pointed out twice that the legs looked short.
Another tip. If you base your work on photographs never stand upright and aim the camera at the persons face. That will distort the legs so they look short. You should crouch and be level with the persons waist and aim the camera at that. Do not stand too close either.
However real people do not confirm to these rules as you can see in the attached painting of mine showing the WWI aces Max Immelmann and Max Mulzer based on their photographs.
Carlo, I hope this helps.
Graham.
Not sure where you get those sizes from, In one book I have it gives 1.8 for super-heroes.
I make out that in Carlo's Republican figures the ratio is about 1:6 and yet you pointed out twice that the legs looked short.
Another tip. If you base your work on photographs never stand upright and aim the camera at the persons face. That will distort the legs so they look short. You should crouch and be level with the persons waist and aim the camera at that. Do not stand too close either.
However real people do not confirm to these rules as you can see in the attached painting of mine showing the WWI aces Max Immelmann and Max Mulzer based on their photographs.
Carlo, I hope this helps.
Graham.
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.