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Comment by fela | Hacker News Reader

looking at google images results [1] it seems like most paintings get it right, although it might be a biased sample

update: searching for "running cartoon" the number of wrong poses increases significantly(I guess unsurprisingly)

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=running+painting&tbm=isch [2] https://www.google.com/search?q=running+cartoon&tbm=isch

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A search for running drawing also has pretty much every result in the correct pose: https://www.google.com/search?q=running+drawing&tbm=isch

Even in the cartoons it seems most are correct. As someone who first learned how to focus and get-things-right by drawing at an early age and since, I found it pretty unlikely this premise could be correct.

Not thrilled with the drawing guides either. All I can tell you is I never draw from a picture and I never make this error. Nor it seems to most of the people on google images.

That was good of you to look for examples. But I wonder how many paintings that we can find with Google searches are based on photographs. I've encountered visual artists who can usually tell the difference between a drawing done from life and a drawing done from a photograph (my eye is not that subtle), so I think there are quite a few people who draw by looking at photographs. A study of the issue described in the article would probably want to look at visual art from a time before photography, and there is plenty of that in the world.

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