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hi anon, thank you very much! sorry for taking so long to reply, i wasn't sure what to say. i don't consider myself especially proficient when it comes to either anatomy or coloring haha, i would say i have a basic understanding of them both but no special tricks up my sleeve that i could share with you. colors are especially tricky for me unless we're talking specifically about color matching, which i think i'm pretty good at, but rendering and painting are not my forte, i don't really have the patience for it. i love looking at and studying it in other people's art, but unless i'm pressuring myself to color, i always gravitate back to monochrome inking. i just love the simplicity of clean lines, you know? i really enjoy doing lineart.

with that being said, what i usually see recommended by other artists (and what i personally found quite educational) is the morpho series by michel lauricella. there's a bunch of them on the internet archive:

anatomy for artists

fat and skin folds

muscled bodies

joint forms and muscular functions

skeleton and bone reference points

clothing folds

face, head, and neck

hands and feet

simplified forms

mammals

anatomy for sculptors (better quality) (this one is not of the morpho series, and is by different authors, but the graphs in it are pretty extensive)

i haven't read all of them & even those i have looked at i don't exactly read; i'm a visual learner so mostly i just look at the images. that also extends beyond anatomy books; i talked about this in a similar post before, but what works for me is always looking at things with the intent to learn. i use myself as a reference quite often (particularly for hands), and i people-watch anytime i can, which is all of the time.

i can't really recommend anything on the color front besides similarly just looking at things, looking for art you vibe with, learning from and imitating others... i've saved some art-related posts over the years, some of which go into color matching, maybe you'll find some of them useful (please don't follow that blog though)...

SHOP WILL BE CLOSED 8-22 MAY!

two misfires (original below cut)

Under the cut - a LARGE collection of faces. :) was looking at dr de kuiper and i decided i really wanted to capture his microexpressions and the angles do a lot.

A little alicorn of disgrace