[lord of drawing all the things]

Steve Explains “the elbow test” in chpt 8 of this series of lectures

https://www.nma.art/videolessons/beginning-figure-drawing-parts-of-the-body/

[lord of drawing all the things]

Also:

(same vid aforementioned)

What’s the BS test?

Basic structure?

I’ve command+F searched all the transcript for the whole beginning fig drawing pt1… for both “BS  test” and “Basic Structure Test”…

and only got one hit on the former (copy pasted below) and none on the latter

“So, longest sustained curve.
Use the elbow test.
Use the BS test.
The truth of it is the longest sustained curve is going to be what we see as the gestural
side because that’s taking the beginning and end to its farthest possible extreme and
giving us this nice curve.”

[lord of drawing all the things]

This course is outstanding and really helping me have a lot of epiphanies…

but… what exactly is “The Elbow Test”

context = chapter 8: Balancing Gesture & Structure

“So, let’s look at the arm, then.
We’re going to do a gesture line.
Now we’re going to do a structure.
I can be a two-dimensional structure, or it could be a three-dimensional structure.
Now, how did we really get that?
We used the elbow test, great.
But, how did we really get that?
First, let’s look again at what our hopes would be…”

 

I used control+F in regards to the transcript; and that is the first of two mentions of “the elbow test”

but I’m not really sure what he’s referring to exactly.

I don’t recall any specific instruction on it;

(such as with “the pencil test” where he even has a chapter named that; and describes it in depth)

[lord of drawing all the things]

FYI:
the PDFs for Perkins’s classes are back up

and it looks like the Westermoe resources are available on week 4

https://www.nma.art/videolessons/reilly-method-figure-drawing-with-mark-westermoe-week-4-designing-the-head/

Both of which were brought to my attention via response to my support ticket

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