I'm trying to learn hands completely from him, but I don't want to pay him with money. So, I instead tried to pirate him. But I struggled. I didn't want to learn from other youtubers. Because most other youtubers provides hand anatomy advice completely in bread crumbs. I don't want to resort to using art shills and art grifters and look at their slop, because it's just masturbation and little to no improvement; it'll end up wasting my time and energy. I need to find the perfect and complete collection of materials, so that I could get what I needed. I also tried to practice a lot of hands from reference and memory but that didn't satisfy me because I was lacking in knowledge. I am literally starving of anatomy knowledge. If there are literally any other alternatives other than proko that teach complete human anatomy like a big ass book. Just give me the name of that big ass book. Because I am that so fucking desperate for anatomy.
>>7902113Get an ad Stan, you stingy bastard.
George Bridgman (Complete Guide Drawing From Life)Andrew Loomis (Drawing The Head & Hands)Harold Speed (The Practice and Science of Drawing)
>>7902115Alright, seriously though. Are there any answers that you could point to? Because I don't want to just draw blindly and hoping my mileage would carry me over to even slightly better beg tier. Getting mileage without knowledge of fundies or fundamentals is like baking a cake knowing without the part that makes it cake. I am literally so shit at everything. I drew countless references from anime but I didn't feel any better when I tried to draw from imagination. Hell, even those anime references that I drew were shit. Too ugly, that I threw them away in the trash. Where they are never going to see the light of day again.
>>7902113pirating Proko? he's so good at teaching you should buy all his courses!
>>7902129I can't tell whether what you're saying is sarcastic or not. But yeah, proko is that good. At least from I've heard from a friend and most people online. He also recommended me a drawabox for construction and basic perspective, which I also heard that it's good as well.
>>7902139This! So much this, plus he's handsome and funny. Anyways, don't pirate proko. I've heard those sites have viruses.
>>7902122It is hard to accept that no one really draws "from imagination" in the sense that you are "making up" something out of your "mental power". You're not god, or some AI connected to a data base reference of infinite anatomical and engineering knowledge. You really draw from basic and simple memory. You learn to draw a certain thing in ONE particular WAY, one shape, (aside from whatever perspective angle you chose to make that thing) You will draw it in that one particular way which you will always do. You can't build a lion out of just mental "logic", you need to learn and memorize at least ten ways to draw a lion, front, back, sides, from above, from below, and four isometric different angles, and the same ten different angles for a sitting lion, or a jumping lion, or a laying lion, etc. You will ALWAYS call those exact ten shapes that you learnt, from memory. And of course you will optimize that memory using that template for four legged animals, like cats, or dogs. You will learn that cattle, horses, or bears won't match those templates of cats and dogs, so you will have to learn the shape of those other animals with particular attention. Same with birds or rodents, or reptiles.It is like learning a language, only that learning a language is harder than learning to draw the animal kingdom, I mean, all lions look the same, you just have to memorize how to draw one type of lion.tl;tr, You just memorize shapes, like you memorize letters from an alphabet or words from a dictionary.
