pablorz [2014-07-11 23:05:50 +0000 UTC]

Wow. Goooooooood job!

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TheGalleryOfEve [2013-03-06 02:27:35 +0000 UTC]

Your beautiful journal has been featured here: [link]

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Urus-28 [2012-12-23 20:12:18 +0000 UTC]

Anatomy... Every time I think to this it appears like a bunch of boring homework..
But the fact is, you cannot make without...

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LadyKylin [2012-12-23 18:34:15 +0000 UTC]

Man there have been a lot of PE journals that have been really cool, but this is certainly one of my favs.

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doodler95 [2012-12-23 17:43:13 +0000 UTC]

This is one of the best online anatomy references I've seen. Learning anatomy inspired me to keep drawing; it's really one of the most intriguing aspects of the human body.

Thank you so much for putting this journal up!

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Geetas-Comics [2012-12-23 07:58:01 +0000 UTC]

Barely two days old and I will never get enough of this resource. THX again and again and again!!

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CrookiNari [2012-12-23 07:13:55 +0000 UTC]

This'll probably be useful later on. Thanks!

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ArmadaPaw [2012-12-23 05:54:16 +0000 UTC]

Thankyou so much for posting this, it's a great resource!

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Clashe [2012-12-23 05:01:39 +0000 UTC]

Great resources, thanks!

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SavageFrog [2012-12-23 01:27:35 +0000 UTC]

...I should probably stop hoarding stock & anatomy refs now. XD

*SenshiStock , *syccas-stock , =Kxhara , *LaLunatique , *Sinned-angel-stock & =charligal-stock are personally some of my favorites when it comes down to hunting for more active & unusual poses (also raiding #dAPoses is overall good option >w<)

~jeinu & `majnouna also have some very interesting material in regards to feature variety that anyone looking to diversify their character design variety should look at.

& those Loomis books,the glorious andrew loomis books although also looking at Eadweard Muybridge's work is very useful considering how extensive they were ("the human figure in motion" is a very valuable book for any artist to have in my opinion while some of his other studies include animals in motion).

Knowing how the proper body anatomy works not only while it's still but in motion as well is a very useful skill for any artist especially when finding one's favorite drawing style (anyways, I'm pretty sure that even Butch Hartman & Seth MacFarlane know this kind of stuff too XD)
deviantART muro drawing

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Sarah-BK [2012-12-23 00:53:13 +0000 UTC]

Even if you can't draw for the life of you (I'm somewhere between knowing how to draw and an abysmal drawing artist), knowing anatomy certainly helps you to appreciate your own body and the bodies of others - there's something about the human form which continues to fascinate me every single day. We're humans after all and we should appreciate all that makes us up

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Redfeathyrs [2012-12-23 00:14:41 +0000 UTC]

Just some advice to anyone daunted by the images of all those bones and muscles- take it one body part at a time! I'm trying to work on hands, myself.

Also to add to the comment string about stylized anatomy- an art teacher of mine once said, and I agree, 'You have to know what it's supposed to look like before you make changes.'
I work hard at anatomy, even though my style is caught somewhere between manga and semi-realism.

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VelkynKarma [2012-12-22 23:24:27 +0000 UTC]

Very true, and a very useful resource here! I found that until I really started understanding how the body worked, it was very difficult to draw anything at all. And I'm still learning; by no means am I an expert. It's a long process, but it's very rewarding, because I'm getting to that stage when I am starting to remember how things work and it feels really good to know things.

I've also found in addition to studying anatomy, tracing can also be a useful tool--if used within reason! I took a lot of photos of myself with my webcam and traced my face a lot over the course of this past year. At first it was pretty time consuming, but now I'm starting to really understand how parts of the body line up and connect in all angles. It's easier to visualize odd head tilts and such now even without a reference, because through repeated tracing I've taught myself how the jaw connects to the ear and the neck to the head, the positions of eyes, nose, mouth, and the shape of the skull. Of course this hardly means start tracing everything and making "bases" to create all your work, but it certainly does help figure out how things work, so you can sketch them on your own later.

~VelkynKarma

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apple-kitty [2012-12-22 21:08:53 +0000 UTC]

Whenever I look at anatomy, at all those muscles I look away and sigh. I know I shouldn't be negative but I can't see myself ever learning all these muscles..

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MatthewPalfenier [2012-12-22 18:01:54 +0000 UTC]

Awesome! And I whole heatedly (no pun intended ) agree!

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Heyriel [2012-12-22 17:07:57 +0000 UTC]

A great article -very helpful collection of tutorials, too. Maybe you should list a few books, too? Like Loomis for those who wish to go all the way with figure drawing

I am so glad that I started learning about anatomy and using simplified skeletons/shapes to construct figures rather early on (thank you so much James Baxter and Ken Hultgren! xD ). It makes it so easy to shift between different animal species or even to human figures. -like a really sturdy building block which you can build all sorts for crazy castles on. <3

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