Stop looking at anatomy books or art books. Look at statues.Statues show you how best to draw anatomy. None of this bad looking shit, no, it's the most idealized, best looking form of anatomy.Artbook is anatomy done by B/C tier artists, while statues is anatomy done by S tier artists.Sure statues might not tell you what a muscle is but it's not hard to use a bit of research skill to fill in the supplemental information (seriously are you retarded? just read wikipedia)Statues tell you only the muscles you need to learn, and they tell you each for both male and female. No more second guessing. Anatomy books give you the whole shebang and some of those muscles look downright ugly if you indicate it fully.Bernini and Canova wrote perfect anatomy books, far better than anything you'll find nowadays.
Look at Canova's simplicity. Arms near the deltoid is just one rounded cylinder. Clavicle barely visible. The perfect indication of the boob-armpit area fat line. Neck is just one curved cylinder with a hint of sternocleidomastoid visible. You can immediately apply this anatomy to anime, as anime women are drawn just as simply as Canova sculpted. Anatomy book will teach you all the muscles, Canova teaches you all the shapes you actually need, simply and beautifully.
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>>7894681Fair on the reddit spacing, but neither reddit or /ic/ make good art anyway, so what does it matter. Both sites are complete garbo when it comes to good art.
Ehhhh I see where you’re coming from and think that statues can indeed offer benefits than an image in a book, but books carry their own purpose, one different than a statue. Books are to learn from, statues are to apply. IMO, drawing from books to understand the anatomy and then taking what you’ve learned to apply it to more complex subjects like a statue is ideal>It’s the most idealized, best looking form of anatomyEhh, I disagree. I’d argue looking at yourself in the mirror or drawing real people is more beneficial because you can learn how the body changes, moves, functions in real time, something a statue can’t give you. I’m not opposed to drawing from them because a statue is also a lot larger, but it’s hard to convince me that studying from a statue will take you further than doing let’s say ab studies in the mirror or even gesture drawings in real time, even though you CAN do both also. >statues tell you only the muscles you need to learnFair, but this is also a limitation. Real people show you the different variations and forms of the same muscle/body part, something that a statue might not accomplish as well. I agree with your overall sentiment and think drawing from them is helpful, but that’s alongside drawing real people and from books as a basis too
>>7894688we have plenty of good artists here, now pyw
>>7894677you're saying to draw from life with extra steps. humans are just statues made by the greatest artist, God.
>>7894701>humans are just statuesnigga i can move my joints
>>7894703>pointless counterargumentsyou really are an artist
>>7894677> copying other peoples mistakesno. do not do this.
>>7894677they are instruction pieces made to teach you things. of course it doesn't look as good as a master sculptors finished piece. you need to be decent before you can learn much from master works. all the subtitles will fly over you head.
love the statues. cant live without the statues. i'm planning to do a little life drawing this year since my city has a good, spread out collection. its usually a little embarassing, it feels poserish, but i've gotten to a level where its justified someone like me drawing in public
>>7894677Better to draw from? SureBetter to learn how to draw from? No.
>>7894835thats a different subject. learning to draw is observative at first so the boxes approach is a good one just to get your bearings. once you get to figure and anatomy study, statues are a very good source to learn from at this stage. next to all the other stuff. i disagree with OP though, any source is a good one. anything to help you draw more and better. why ignore information? just filter it out yourself
>>7894695Let’s be honest, you say real people variations are good but most good art is built on ideals. 90%, hell I’d say 98% of anime girls have the same anatomy. Same with guys. No one wants to look at a fatty unless it’s for concept art. Even then, a lot of games are trending towards ideals now. Look at Genshin and see how many body variations you spot. Look at anime style art from Japanese artists and see how homogenous the bodies are. Sure you might have the edge cases but those are few and far between and they are never the “hero” characters. The Greeks and Romans figured this out thousands of years ago, you’re just wasting your time trying to reinvent the wheel.
>>7894699“Plenty of good artists” yeah lmao. Artists high on some form of ego who are scrambling to learn some tidbit of info on Proko for 3 minutes then go spend the next 5 hours looking at “figure references” aka porn. There’s no learning here, artists here have no discipline and its evidenced by 90% of the threads here being some form of pseudo porn with extra hoops on it.
>>7894833Best of all, the statue sections are usually empty too.
>>7894680why she been seasoned with everything bagel seasoning
And where exaxtly am I suppsoed to get a statue? I have though of doing lifecasting of my hands/face. Nervous about putting the plaster gauze over m,y eyes.
>>7895916In a museum ?Or you can search on the google art project and online museum galleries. Use Dezoomify to download the pictures and study them.
>>7894833Nobody should be embarassed to draw in public. It's poserish when you want to draw attention.
