Hi! Just curious but how do you go about human anatomy? Everytime I see your art I'm blown away by how good it is so I was wondering if you had any tips or tricks!
HELLOO!! My biggest tip is REFERENCE!! We all have sooo much to remember and do every day in our lives, and people aren’t meant to have an encyclopedia of EVERY single position a human body can be in and EVERY variation a body can come in!!!
Usually I either draw using a picture I’ve taken of myself as reference or I look up references online!! I do often sketch without reference as well, but that definitely comes from the muscle memory of drawing from reference! And usually those drawings end up WAYYY more static than they would from reference!
Animators show it best, when they’re animating a scene, there are SO many nuances that make the action believable, nuances you would lose if you tried to just imagine all of it without a single frame of ref. They’ll often record themselves, have mirrors next to them to look at, SO many ways to grab that energy and build of a human for their works!!
Many times I’ll draw while looking directly at the reference to get the feeling of the shapes down, and then I draw it AGAIN with more attention to the character I’m drawing, pushing and exaggerating things I like or changing angles of stuff for more flow! I’m here to work smarter and not harder!!!!
Here’s some examples of ref vs drawing featuring me in my pjs 90% of the time w the absolute worst lighting ever 😂