Anatomy guide/ or "system" to follow
I am not sure how to name this thread. But i need help to learn Anatomy, like step by step guide or system that i can follow, otherwise i will go mad and will end up in mental hospital.
I want to keep simple. Like to know where to start,and how to approach. People say to separate body into sections and do many sculpts until i nail it, and then to go for next thing and i will probably learn eventually and can sculpt whole body.
But i am lost, i have no idea how to divide the body into sections and which part to take it first. I would like to leave head for last, because is most complicated thing, and i would like also to learn more about facial anatomy ( anyone know some books for it)
I have books for anatomy for artists. But there just bad drawings, with texts , so how should i follow and learn?
I would also want to hear someone personal experience,
How did you learn Anatomy? From where did you started? How long did you take to sculpt particular thing or something like that.
From these anatomy books i am more lost than ever.
I want to keep simple. Like to know where to start,and how to approach. People say to separate body into sections and do many sculpts until i nail it, and then to go for next thing and i will probably learn eventually and can sculpt whole body.
But i am lost, i have no idea how to divide the body into sections and which part to take it first. I would like to leave head for last, because is most complicated thing, and i would like also to learn more about facial anatomy ( anyone know some books for it)
I have books for anatomy for artists. But there just bad drawings, with texts , so how should i follow and learn?
I would also want to hear someone personal experience,
How did you learn Anatomy? From where did you started? How long did you take to sculpt particular thing or something like that.
From these anatomy books i am more lost than ever.
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It's very affordable and very straight forward.
I learned anatomy by doing a lot of drawing and studying individual forms and a lot of practice.
You can also check out Proko's figure drawing series. Even though it's about drawing the knowledge can be applied to sculpting as well.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtG4P3lq8RHGuMuprDarMz_Y9Fbw_d2ws
In my opinion, after going through the 2 above links I've posted and practiced quite a bit, you should check out Scott Eaton's workshop classes. His classes are great but in my opinion he teaches the best Facial & Portraiture class out there.
http://www.scott-eaton.com/portraiture-facial-anatomy-online-course
Rafael, Scott Eaton, and Proko in my opinion are very great at explain anatomy.
I hope that helps and keep at it
Andrew Loomis Books: free online or get a reissue from amazon for roughly $30
George Bridgman: these books are awesome, they're cheap and his way of drawing is pretty similar to sculpting I've found.
Scott Spencer: Zbrush Digital Sculpting Human Anatomy. This book is awesome, its a little old now (he's using Zbrush3.5R3) but the workflow is pretty standard. He goes thru making a complete character from skeleton up.
http://www.amazon.com/ZBrush-Digital-Sculpting-Human-Anatomy/dp/0470450266/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1406828083&sr=8-1&keywords=zbrush+human+anatomy
An Ecorche (you can find these on 3dtotal for about $90 or get a big one from AnatomyTools.com) the one I got was during the end of the year when they were trying to get rid of B stock items.
Good Luck!
My current favorite figure drawing/anatomy book: [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Figure-Drawing-Invention-Michael-Hampton/dp/0615272819/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1406829268&sr=8-1&keywords=figure+drawing+by+design+and+invention"]Figure Drawing: Design and Invention[/ame] It's very similar to Bridgemans books (which are all great), but cleaner in presentation, and more modern.
Also one thing I found helpful, and is mentioned in the book I recommend above, but it isn't really drilled in as firmly as I think it should be, but mastering perspective will help immensely. A mastery of perspective will give you a procedural system for approaching the depiction of any form in 3d space, which is obviously very helpful for drawing in general, but in figure drawing it will make the task of foreshortening the figure and accurately depicting it's structure much easier. For perspective I recommend Scott Robertson's [ame="http://www.amazon.com/How-Draw-sketching-environments-imagination/dp/1933492732/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1406829653&sr=8-1&keywords=how+to+draw+scott+robertson"]How to Draw[/ame] That will give you a good method for free hand sketching in perspective, not always precise, but good enough. The techniques he presents will also help improve your draftsmanship.
I am also interest to learn especially facial anatomy or whatever is called. I really like to sculpt some famous faces or busts in Zbrush. Like to sculpt some favorite actors or sports idols etc
How to learn those things? I mean what to analyze or to see it in those faces so i can sculpt them?
Any specific book/course for this?
You may find "zbrushworkshops - anatomy of the face for artists".
It would be better if u practice with ecorche/life figure drawing, just to improve your observation skills and learn figure structure.