#anatomy tips

[beeandthescreen]

[f8lfool]

My first anatomy tutorial. How I connect arms to the torso. Simplified the muscles for better comprehension

PS. Pectoral is misspelled as “pectorial” in the picture. Don’t make that mistake haha

And I’d love to see the art made from using these as reference, you can message or tag me.. whatever you want

Edit: The extended names of the muscles:

Neck - Sternocleidomastoid

Traps - Trapezius

Lats - Latissimus Dorsi

[art-tnt]

Tips for drawing the female pelvis by SOLRAKA

[erinwantstowrite]

Do you have any tips on how to draw anatomy? Apart from the obvious 'keep practicing!'

I get that it's important and all but I can't practise effectively if I have no idea what the hell. I'm doing wrong and the only thing I'm getting from yt vids is 'JuSt kEeP prActISiNg! YouLl GeT iT evEnTuALlY!!!!!'

dude i haaaaaate when people say that and don't give any actual advice so here's my biggest thing I've done:

You can't understand anatomy if you don't understand the basic shapes. So you're going to draw boxes and rectangles and cylinders for hours upon hours until you can draw them in any perspective. Because those boxes can give you this:

Obviously drawn very fast but you get the point here. The version on the left where you start putting on muscles and fat can't come into existence properly if you don't have your box-man (or a version like it since some people will tell you box-man doesn't help, but I like him). This step is important because you're going to need to build up your mental library for perspective and the mental library is IMPORTANT. We have to observe every part of our surroundings all the time and go "how would I put this on a grid? How would I show the shadows and light? How do I simplify it's most basic shape?" There are plenty of tutorials on box-man that can give you the first step to understanding Box-man.

This is where I tell you to go to Line Of Action dot com, a great source for poses of all kinds. Set the time to 10 minutes. You're not gonna box-man yet. You're gonna draw squiggles of the pose- a loose stick man figure. Go back to childhood roots. Once you think you've gotten the energy of poses, you're going to box-man them. Same settings, just the box man. Don't try to add anything else to it yet.

Now look at your box-mans and think "Ok, but how do I give him his human flesh" You gotta give him bones. Check out a medical book at the library and start with the skeleton. Understanding what is and isn't possible for the human body to do before you ever start breaking the rules is also important. Again, we're back at this mental library. You draw skeletons and you draw skeletons and you draw skeletons.

And now's the fun part: muscles. Your sketchbook should be filled halfway full of shapes and box-mans and skeletons by now. Muscles are about to take over the next half. You have to study these medical books still, redraw the diagram and memorize the names of the muscles. Go back to your skeleton and try building the muscles on top of it, and then do that over and over

These are all from Line of Action here. I like to take my time, really slow down when I'm first learning and (this is THE most important part): really think about where my next line is going.

line confidence is your best friend. if you're hestitating and chicken scratching, you're not really thinking ahead your next move (of course there are some people that can freestyle like that but this ain't about them.) Before every line, you have to KNOW where you want it to end up and think about the shape and negative space around it. And i hate that this sounds like i'm breezing through this but it's so hard to do this on a text post ahhhhh

When you think you've gotten a decent enough grasp on copying these poses, you need to start thinking "Ok, now how owuld this pose look if I changed the viewing angle?"

GOD... this changed my life. Now i'm thinking about the pose I just drew, and I'm pulling up my mental library of the bodies i've been studying, and Im forcing myself to imagine it from another angle. And then I try to draw it. Your first attempts are probably going to look awful- trust me, when I get home I'll try to find the pages n my sketchbook where i practiced this and you'll see how pathetic it was. But keep going at it. Some of the poses on that other example are line of action poses that I thought about from a different angle.

BUILD THAT MENTAL LIBRARY!! That's truly the only way. Don't just look at other artists and try to copy, you need to look at real human beings. Why does that muscle only buldge when they lift their arm? Why does stomach fat fall like that? What happens when we lose our balance and why is it that an arm falls forward?

The power of observation is going to get you farther than any other tool. If you don't have that reference to fall back on, then what are you even practicing? Don't feel rushed during a study, either. Take your time and really ask yourself questions about the pose. Save the quick studies for when you're trying to work on flow and dynamics!

[gatoburr0]

Everyone asked for it, so here it is :)

hope it helps!

[everyponie]

Hhhhow do u draw digilegs like furry legs i can never get it right and u do it so guud

Omgim so glad you asked!! I think the best way to put it is almost imagine you're drawing the numbers two or three! I also recommend looking at mlp art and bases as their anatomy isn't very different for the most part and can help with more dynamic poses :3

[spiralspacemutt]

How we do anatomy?

*Shares anatomy secrets* if you want to have good realistic refs, I assume you have a body, make ur own [sometimes you might not be able to draw them but that’s your own problem] * this mf couldn’t draw that hand and continued to struggle with it for 15 minutes

Here’s what we do when we make ourselves a ref

•we think about what species the ref is for

•then draw over whatever you used as the ref to better accommodate the character

•then try your absolute fucking hardest to use it and succeed

anyway, GO LOOK AT LUNAR *character in first drawing DCA AU character, we love Lunar*

[snakeguy999]

Wait how did you get like that?

Like with ur art

Who are your inspirations? what techniques do you employ when you study? What sources do you use to understand color? how do you practice your line work?

Yayyy another ask about this sort of stuff, many words under the cut

Hmmm to get to whatever skill level-

Just never be happy with what you make and even when you reach a goal in undertsanding or skill, raise your standards even higher😃

Kidding, partially, but by being exigent and not being satisfied with little, you will strive for more.

My inspirations are: Barcsay Jenő(favourite of all time), Gottfried Bammes, renaissance and baroque artists/sculptors, Robert Valley, impressionist and post-impressionist painters(Toulouse Lautrec, Edgar Degas are my main sources for colour study material) and uh...whatever phase of art I am at dictates the corresponding favourite artist. Right now I am experimenting with graphical styles, so my go-to inspiration is currently Albrecht Dürer. Plus he was so, so handsome, hehe

When I study, I try my best to draw as faithfully as I can to the source and not fall into the stereotypes of my usual art('artstyle). I like to do studies in pencil or ballpoint pen, as they can be precise. The pencil offers a faster coverage of surface, good for quicker or more atmospheric studies, but I find the latter technique more challenging and thereby rewarding.

Here's one of my studies in ballpoint pen, i really like the effect of the blue as it intensifies depending on the thickness of the lines.

Hmm, about understanding colour....I really struggle with it😭 At school, our colour teacher is really rude and mean, so I admit to having developed quite the displeasure towards colours. I would recommend studying the masters. Just try to copy them and you'll pick their habits up.

Linework...I'm not so good at linework, but my biggest inspiration and source of study is ofcourse the master John Singer Sargent. There is so much to learn from even his quickest skecthes. Amazing art

Ty for asking i hope my answers helped somewhat, this is just a list of things i do