I'm a big fan of your art man, you are really skilled. I respect and admire that. Can you tell me what you used to learn (like books, video courses, tutorials, etc), especially anatomy and drapery? Thanks in advance!
Thanks my dude! That’s really flattering, I still have a lotto work on haha.
For anatomy, I would start out with a basic understanding ofperspective and how to represent 3-d forms. Then we learn about proportions andgestures. This is where we try to build our figures out of boxes, tubes,spheres, beanbags and potatoes, or whatever you fancy. The point here is to make our figures at leasthave the dimensions of humans and they look like they can exist in 3-d space. Alsotry to make them look symmetrical and balance, at this stage that’s probablymore perspective than anatomy.
Books: probably any beginneranatomy books would do.
Examples:
Figure Drawing forAll It’s Worth by Andrew Loomis
Figure drawing:Design and Intervention by Michael Hampton
Figure Drawing forArtists: Making Every Mark Count by Steve Huston
After this, I would learn about the forms of the human body.This is where we learn about important bones, muscles, landmarks, and majorforms of the human body. We’re slapping some meat on our box men. Again, anymaterial from Loomis, Hogarth, Vilppu, Bridgman, SteveHuston, Michael Hampton, (did I forget anyone?) etc, would do. Just pick theone that you find easiest to understand.
Alright, now we’re getting wild.Next step is to build on your knowledge of the human body by learning about theorigins and insertions of the muscles and tendons and ligaments; more stuffabout the skeletons; the range of motion of the bodies and how the muscleschange form in difference situation. The resources here are tough, technicaland are more about understanding than drawing.
Materials:
Anatomy Courses by Scott Eaton
Anatomyfor Sculptors and Anatomy of Facial Expression by Uldis Zarins with Sandis Kondrats
ArtisticAnatomy and New Artistic anatomy by Dr. Paul Richer
StrutturaUomo by Neri Pozza
More recommendations from ScottEaton: http://www.scott-eaton.com/anatomy-book-reviews-and-recommendations
During any part of your learningprocess, do studies and live drawing and really try to apply your understanding.Reinforce your knowledge by asking yourselves how the forms you are seeing relateto the anatomy that you’ve been studying.
Once you feel like you have a decentunderstanding of anatomy, it’s time for stylization. Try to see how otherartists simplify and exaggerate the human body. Do your own experiments.
Studies of:
https://twitter.com/k3_spaceybear
https://twitter.com/toubun14/
https://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=59317
Alright, drapery. I’m not thatconfident in my drapery skills. Regardless, here are a couple of books:
Famous artist course: Fold part one
Drawingthe Clothed Figure by Michael Massen
Keep in mind that learning anatomy is not a linear process, we don’t just finish one stage and move on to another. We are never going to get a complete mastery of anatomy. We have to keep going back and forth in order to fill the gaps in our understanding. Finally, this is just what I would do/am doing andis absolutely not the only way to learn. I wouldn’t be comfortable taking myown advice so you shouldn’t either. Everyone learns differently. The onlyuniversal advice I have is to work hard and work smart.
And don’t forget to have fun!
