why does /ic/ care about anatomy so much?you can insta-improve your work just by adding motion and good composition, but you'd rather spend all day working out the details of arm muscles?
>>7712901Your understanding of anatomy affects how you simplify your forms. It's a good thing to have knowledge on it even if you don't usually draw detailed muscular forms.
>>7712902of course, but you can spend an arbitrary amount of time improving at any one area of drawing. so why devote so much to anatomy in particular, to the exclusion of perspective, composition, color, etc? it's just odd.
>>7712905I think the reason so many gravitate towards it is that its very much 'you know it or you don't'. Things like gesture, composition and color can be harder to intuit, and as a beginner you might not understand whether or not you're getting it right. With anatomy, its far more black and white, even without any experience you can compare your work to a reference and tell whats wrong... As for skills like perspective and form, I think people just find them boring (it doesn't have to be, but for some reason I see a lot of beginners just spamming boxes and circles in a void??)
>>7712901autists like it because it can be objectively correct and is more concrete, same reason some people like perspective. since it's more objective and concrete, it's easier for teachers to teach and students to learn it. critics like to critique the anatomy because they can be correct about it. there are many more good books about anatomy than there are for composition books, especially beyond the basics. depending on the type of art you want to make, you might not need to study much anatomy at all. if you want to create believable creatures from imagination, you'd need to know a lot about anatomy.learning to add motion and "good composition" is much harder to teach and to learn it. beginners have nothing worth composing anyway. adding motion to a turd doesn't really make it any better.
>>7712901ok wise guy how do I grind composition and appeal? oh yeah and WITHOUT having to draw.
>>7712940unironically you can keep notes of things other artists do that you wish to emulate. Of course you'll eventually need to actually try incorporating that into your drawings but hey you can do that first part without drawing
>>7712940If you're not being serious about without having to draw, just copy compositions from movies, manga and other visual media. If you're being serious, literally a lot like photography, photo editing, filmography, graphic design etc.
>>7712940NTA but many art programs teach you to make composition thumbnails of hundreds of master works until you understand the basic patterns.
