You have no excuses! Read this now.
From: pachurz:
Some building block references my Life Drawing teacher drew up for us for our Figure Drawing class. Thought I would impart the wisdom.
Oh shiny~
MIGHTY NEED! D:
Gesture Drawing for Animation
This is really long, but it’s very inspirational and has really sound advice http://www.floobynooby.com/pdfs/gesturedrawingforanimation.pdf
Thank you co-mod sadistickitty for submitting this!
Steve Hampton: Figure Drawing: Design and Invention.
I took one of his classes back when I went to art school and he’s an incredible professor and instructor. I’d advise people to look through his studies and even buy his book. It’s not necisarilly how to draw correct anatomy but to know it while making it stylized. His class basically teaches the mechanics of the body while using imagination.
Seriously, I recommend anyone to attending one of his online workshops. It’s kind of pricey but much more affordable than what I paid. Then again I had my own benefits.
WHOA
-shoves these refs under my arm-
(Source: arthronpodos)
Source: Needed. For the next couple of things I’m queuing up, I don’t know the source and would appreciate it so much if someone could tell me.
Helpful Link Part 3
Some helpful videos that have short but information heavy commentary. I’ve only checked out the anatomy videos, and though they weren’t made to teach anatomy from the ground up and aren’t recommended for beginners, they point out some helpful facts.
What’s most helpful probably is that the artist builds up the musculature right in front of your eyes and digs out the anatomy.
Again, I don’t rec. some of these for beginners, but this can be helpful for people studying anatomy out of books and diagrams who want a demonstration.
Some beautiful studies in this /ic/ thread on 4chan: http://boards.4chan.org/ic/res/982461
Source: Needed. Found on /ic/ Some beautiful studies in this /ic/ thread on 4chan
More Helpful Links
I’m a little bit hesitant about posting this because when I made this tumblr I didn’t want to post the usual repost of a million reposts, but I’ve been using these links for so long and they’ve been so helpful. I hope you guys don’t mind me posting these.
(last warning these are really old, already well-known links I’m sorry followers /weep)
For improving gesture and figure drawings!
http://www.pixelovely.com/gesture/figuredrawing.php
-shuffles through many stock images of humans and animals with a handy timer. Also has a nifty class-training mode.
-same concept, some overlap of images and some different from the link above.
-Kinda helpful but most artists don’t recommend this for detailed studying. Quoting the Resources for D/ic/ks site, “Keep in mind though that this uses 3d models and does not realistically show the movement of muscles.” Some of the options available on the site are fun to experiment with, though!
-lotsa lotsa resources for human anatomy
http://www.scribd.com/doc/334333/Constructive-Anatomy
-anatomy with Bridgeman
Definitely stylized but still not terrible anatomy.
Submitted by the lovely pendraeg again!
Keep in mind this is pretty stylized. Read selectively/with discretion etc etc. :>
