How to learn Anatomy?

BojanStankovski · Sep 2011

Today i was in book shop, and saw a book from Vigu

Lazerus Reborn · Sep 2011

Read books, go to real life drawing, practice.

This help too

http://www.posemaniacs.com/thirtysecond

EmAr · Sep 2011

Hi! That huge book may be a relatively bad place to start. With that amount of pages, I suspect it can be written for medical purposes. This means it can contain too detailed information for a beginner.

For starting, Bridgman(The Human Machine and many more books) and Hogarth(some like this one much better) have some nice books.

If you are OK with comic-style illustrations, Drawing Cutting Edge Anatomy(Cristopher Hart) is a good one too.

EDIT: I also second real life drawing!

Tenchi · Sep 2011

I don't like Anatomy books with more text than photos/pictures, the less verbose the better! This is one of my favs:

Anatomy for the Artist by Sarah Simblet [ame]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Anatomy-Artist-Sarah-Simblet/dp/0751334413/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1316949342&sr=1-1[/ame]

chrisradsby · Sep 2011

Tenchi wrote: »

I don't like Anatomy books with more text than photos/pictures, the less verbose the better! This is one of my favs:

Anatomy for the Artist by Sarah Simblet http://www.amazon.co.uk/Anatomy-Artist-Sarah-Simblet/dp/0751334413/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1316949342&sr=1-1

I do recommend this as well, I have this one.

CheeseOnToast · Sep 2011

I recommend "The Structure of Man" video series from http://www.alienthink.com which will give you a very solid and easy to aquire grounding in anatomy. After that, Bridgeman and the like can help you add some life and style to your drawings.

BojanStankovski · Sep 2011

Is it important to know how to draw for anatomy? Thanks for the advice.
This book what i have is whit a lot of pictures and explanation.From skeleton, muscles, organs, arterial system etc.

Steve Schulze · Sep 2011

Yes, yes it is. If you ever want to be able to model or draw characters then you're going to need to have a good understanding of anatomy.

BojanStankovski · Sep 2011

Jackablade wrote: »

Yes, yes it is. If you ever want to be able to model or draw characters then you're going to need to have a good understanding of anatomy.

For that reason i've brought an Anatomy book and 3 books for basic drawing. But i am confused from where to start. From anatomy book and use Zbrush for model the skeleton or from drawing first:D

Timeyy · Sep 2011

Most people recommend starting with drawing practice as its easier (imo) to learn anatomy and proportions by traditional drawing practice. If you have a good foundation of traditional art its much easier to jump into zbrush, because otherwise youll have to learn the anatomy stuff and the technical stuff at the same time which can be too much at times.
just my opinion though, maybe some of the guys here will tell you something different

ChrisG · Sep 2011

I tend to just stare at my penis, it doesnt help me learn anatomy but I like it.
Also George Bridgman, Vanderpole. andrew loomis books has just been republished (figure drawing is out now and drawing heads and hands out next month). they are lovely hardcover books with great repoductions in them.

MainManiac · Sep 2011

Heres my mammoth thread when I learned anatomy and it helped so much (ive been improving ever since)

Lots of helpful posts:
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=78779

As to the drawing arguments, I found sketching out muscles and getting them to flow right and checking proportions to be very helpful, however, drawing the body at funky angles didn't register in my mind very well and barely transferred to sculpting.

Ace-Angel · Sep 2011

Make sure when life drawing, you're doing so in a studio, or ask if doing so at random strangers. Drawing pictures in the park while behind some bushes apparently is frowned on, using a ladder to leer in someone's apartment can land you in prison for some stupid reason, and going to the beach get your paper all soggy.

r_fletch_r · Sep 2011

Get this book if your learning to draw, its fantastic

ChrisG · Sep 2011

drawing on the right side of the brain is good for the absolute newbie but I wouldnt recomend it for someone progressing in their drawing. I do have the book though and it did help me in the begining.

DEElekgolo · Sep 2011

Here

ChrisG · Sep 2011

http://www.angelfire.com/art3/kchendemos/

and these beasts.

How to learn Anatomy?

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