I’m on mobile so I’m having a bit of trouble navigating and finding the FAQ, so sorry if this has been asked a bunch before, but: the way you draw and render muscles is sooo satisfying + accurate and I was wondering if you had any resources you would be able to share that helped you with understanding musculature better? I’m at a bit of a plateau right now myself
Hey omg tysm!!!! Absolutely no worries!
I don't have anything for understanding/drawing musculature specifically, and a lot of what I had learnt was self-taught through studying references a lot.
I find, though, tutorials on utilizing 'hard vs soft' edges in painting/rendering were rather helpful, and very relevant to rendering muscles since they require quite a lot of edge control. I found this was also the point in my art journey where I felt really stuck/felt like I was at a plateau myself, so when I finally got a grasp on hard/soft edges, I could almost feel myself 'level up' as an artist haha.
There's probably a million different resources out there just about this, so I won't bore you with what would essentially be a drop in the ocean of how-tos, so this is a super quick run down of what I'm referencing.
Here is an example using colour, and only focusing on one small area (the face/cheek) that I did in about 5 minutes.
I hope that made sense!! I've put up a way more in-depth tutorial on my website (here) that delves a bit deeper into the technical terms and whatnot, but hopefully the images alone is at least a bit of help!
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