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Anatomy help!

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:iconpiiyokko:
~piiyokko Jun 26, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
I feel like I have to learn from step one all over again, Just when I think I get the anatomy just right, I go ahead and mess it up. If anyone can give me a GREAT reference for me to practice, I'd very much appreciated. Both females and Males apply, and I greatly need work on hands and feet (I borrowed and bought many reference books yet I cannot seem to grasp the basic concept of drawing them...)

thank you so much OTL
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:iconcrazynerds:
~Crazynerds Jul 10, 2012  Student General Artist
[link] <--I found this for free on google chrome, but then found the actual website for it. It's called "biodigital human"

Also you can google posemaniacs, though they only have certain poses.

good luck!
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~TropicalFirestorm Jul 9, 2012
Anatomy can be a pain in the ass to learn. For one, some books are way too complicated (sarah simblet). Unless you have no classes, and little work hours, you won't be able to go through them in a timely matter. Most others are too simply- they just tell the names of the bones and muscles, not what they do. and they have really weird proportions like thumb width throughout the body.


This is extremely easy and simply. you can read through it in one sitting and it's helpful. You should still do more research into anatomy, but I recommend you read this so you'll still improve significantly in the meantime. [link]

SERIOUSLY, this book is AWESOME!


also, don't get so caught up on anatomy that you stop drawing or freak out because you are so bad. drawing a lot is arguably more important than drawing perfectly each time.


Also also- even if you know anatomy, you'll still make mistakes, unless you leave your work alone for like an hour or forty minutes, and come back to view it from a fresh persective. Also, using the "flip horizontal" took in sai (and vertical, if you need it too) really helps to view it from a different perspective while you draw.
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~clarisu Jul 6, 2012
If it can be of any help, I found this website (which I find to be very helpful) - it provides several anatomycal mannikins, you can also rotate them in order to get the perspective you want. [link]
Other advices... hmm... probably this has been already said, but you should just keep exercising.
My anatomy sure is far from being perfect, but I improved it by reading tutorials and observing both pictures and real people..
Hope this helps!
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:iconpiiyokko:
~piiyokko Jul 6, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Thank you! I noticed a lot of fighting stances, I like how it has views on different perspectives of the same pose. :)
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:iconclarisu:
~clarisu Jul 6, 2012
You are welcome:) In case you need it, it also has a small hand section which works in the same way (you choose the pose and then rotate it)
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*Muffin-Machine Jul 3, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
learning each and every muscle is very important. And then it's just important to look down at your arm and realize that the average person doesn't have a bunch of muscles popping out. They have tubes that enlarge and reduce along their length.

I realized after learning from several anatomy books (I recommend looking at a bunch of them and seeing which one starts to click with you) that my issue wasn't really anatomy. I knew the muscles I just didn't know how to apply them to 3 dimensional space. I had to learn how to give them depth before they started to look right. I had to have a place to put the thigh muscles that go behind the other thigh muscles. learn perspective because if drawing is reproducing what you see then perspective, the place where you are viewing reality, is the most important thing.
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~piiyokko Jul 5, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Thank you so much, I think thats also my problem. I can see the muscles in my head, when I place it on paper it just doesn't look right. I need to work on perspective also.

off topic note: Your avatar of wimp lo is amazing. xD
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*Muffin-Machine Jul 8, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
I'm pretty sure that winning is losing.
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~Asakiwaki Jun 28, 2012  Student Digital Artist
Andrew Loomis made some of the most helpful (helpful for me) books on figure drawing and anatomy of the face and hands. [link]

Conceptart.org has a ton of resources, ranging from free e-books to reference pictures. If you make a sketchbook there and commit to it, they'll help you out too. It's a great community. [link]
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:iconpiiyokko:
~piiyokko Jun 28, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Wow! thank you! it's a great site, I'm gonna have to add that to my bookmarks :) cheers!
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