#don't ask about the anatomy

[nagararts]

Here's some notes on some of the upper body muscles so you, artist, don't need to look them up

They are not medically accurate, just enough for artists to know the necessary muscles and how they work together

I 100% recommend doing the last exercise I did to be able to actually place the muscles

Here are my notes on the lower body muscles

[blood-and-mud]

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Character belongs to @gatobob

[nhyhu]

a kiss

[espighty]

The concept of taking an old lowrank cleaning outfit and making it into a fancy parody of itself is kind of strange actually. Do you ever think about that.

It's pretty though so I don't worry about it.

They kiss after this I think. Maybe.

[a-sea-with-no-shores]

Hey uhhhh I made a sideblog for MLC and I guess I'm inaugurating it with a ridiculous fan...cartoon? When I was a teen (back in the Song dynasty) a friend gave me a button that said something like this, an even older relic from the 70s. It totally came back to mind when I was watching poor Fang Duobing, though. Nobody tells him anything! lol.

please forgive me, I do not know how to color or shade and I've really forgotten everything I ever knew about drawing

[deoidesign]

Hi, how did you learn to draw Steve's physique?

Ohh what a complicated thing to answer...

When it comes to how I learned to draw anything, it's hard to say anything too specific since it's always a culmination of many years of assorted study and practice... but I can try to do my best to explain some of the biggest things that helped me learn, some tips I keep in mind, and maybe at least some places to start/delve further.

(just a little disclaimer it's not like my drawings here are going to be 100% medically accurate.. they're just to illustrate concepts!)

The main thing about learning various physiques is understanding anatomy. Which feels obvious, but I don't mean proportions; these are important, but perhaps more important is understanding the skeleton and how it moves and learning where muscles connect to bones and where fat grows on the body. When you understand how these function on a more mechanical level, depicting form and movement in a way that feels natural comes in tow.

For instance, understanding things like the pronation and supination of the radius and ulna, as well as the fact that muscles can ONLY contract or relax, will help you understand a bit better which muscles will be flexed and which will not while someone moves. It's inherent to the positioning based on the structural makeup of the body... It's not like you NEED to memorize all the muscles and bones, of course, but understanding and gaining at least a passive familiarity with the concepts really helps.

In tandem with this concept is the way parts of the body flow into eachother. Muscles ALWAYS come in groups because they can only contract. Whatever muscle is there to lift something, there is a muscle on the other side to pull that bone back down. What this results in is a series of straight edges next to curves, which gives us a lot of really lovely "s curves" and dents and folds and so on and so forth just naturally occurring.

I would suggest at least learning the "bony landmarks", which are bones (usually) visible on the surface of the body. things like the iliac crest, the great trochanter, the 7th vertabrae, the acromion process... These can be used to help you understand the parts of the body as angles and relationships, rather than trying to remember lengths and sizes, which vary immensely... (since you asked about steve, he can be our model... also study these on your own don't just take my word for it haha, these are the ones I personally keep in mind)

I've done the same thing with body hair... learning where it grows and in which directions... It helps me make up variations without needing reference, because I have a set of rules I can follow.

The biggest thing that helped me understand all this on a much deeper level was my ecorche course. I sculpted this guy. We started by sculpting the entire skeleton to understand the bones, and then we added muscles on top. Not every single muscle, of course, but the "artistic muscles" AKA the ones which directly affect the surface of the body. Doing this let us see where muscles connect, because we would make a shape, put it on the bone where it actually goes, and then you get to see how other muscles overlap that.

This helped me, perhaps, more than anything else. But I also didn't just start with this course, I had been drawing for years before I even took it. I had been in school for years before I took it. Not that I think it wouldn't be helpful to someone just starting out, but I do think that the more you know going in, the better an in-depth course like this will help you and stick with you. Classes are also expensive, though so I'm not really like... recommending you pay potentially thousands of dollars to take one... But it did help me a lot, personally.

I also, of course, have done many figure, gesture, and master studies...

These just help you quickly gain a stronger understanding of generalized anatomy, and gives you real life examples of and practice with of how people move and balance.

What all this does when combined, is gives me a very solid ability to depict movement and form in a way that feels relatively natural from my subconscious without the need for reference.

The rest of how I've learned to draw his physique is honestly mostly just stylization. I understand the body, and this is how I am depicting it for his level of musculature.

And as I move into depicting him in other ways, either moving in comics or in animation, realistically rendered, or extra stylized, these concepts inform every step of that process for me! When he keeps the same/similar relationships between parts, he gets to still look like himself.

It ALSO really helps when putting clothes on, because the way cloth falls and bunches and lifts is all directly related to the form it is on... So the more you understand that form, the more you can depict clothing and movement in a way that feels natural.

This is all, of course, true when I draw anyone, you asked about Steve so I'm trying to mostly show with him! But because I'm just drawing from raw information of general anatomy rather than trying to study one body type at a time, it allows a lot more "give," I think!

Like, here's most of the cast from TTA so far... actually, they're not as varied as I thought they were nevermind LMAO ignore this part

But, it also makes monster and alien design much easier! It's a lot easier to come up with non-human anatomy when I understand human anatomy, because I can manipulate the knowledge I have...

There is infinite more to study in the world of anatomy... The complexity of the human body goes extremely deep. For our purposes as artists, we need only depict a fraction of it, but more information rarely hurts the process.

I'm sure there's something in here that's wrong on a technical level, I'm mostly going off of memory. But that's kind of my point - I understand enough generally and conceptually that when I am missing something and need to find reference for it, I understand what I'm looking at. It's much easier than trying to learn AND draw at the same time.

I hope even one thing in here helped you! Sorry it's so long.

[kittenmoth]

Continued re-watching made me wonder out loud to my Fiance; "Man, how come no one ever told me about the scene where Jet is just blatantly flirting with Zuko? How come I don't remember the scene where Jet is just blatantly flirting with Zuko?"

Bad break up, man.

[sensitiveheartless]

your art makes me wanna overcome my issues and just start creating as well after decades of not being able to. anw, just wanted to say you're an inspiration to me < 3

Aaaa I support!! <3<3<3 I'm really glad I've been able to inspire you! At least in my opinion, creating stuff is always valuable — Art art been very therapeutic for me :0 When I was younger I had a lot of trouble getting myself started on making stuff, and I was very on and off with it, especially during more tempestuous times. It's been about...seven or eight years now since I decided to start drawing every day, and admittedly some days all I have time/energy for is stuff like this:

But to me it still counts! Even though most of the stuff I draw in my sketchbook never becomes a finished piece, and it's all very messy, it still helps my brain to create it. Even when I just end up making a page of vaguely dinosaur-like creatures and weird little beasts like these ones from recently lol

Anyway! That was a bit of a ramble, but most importantly: If you do decide to create again, I wish you the best of luck, anon! <3<3<3

[skleech]

Day 8 - Alfred as The Chariot tarot card

[licorishh]

i love og soap too much. my stomach hurts. i don't feel good.

[babyjapril]

one Jackson set a day for February

[sanshinexx]

Here's part two of drawing my family pictures as the Bad Batch because I can and you can't stop me

[skyrim-forever]

WIP Wednesday

Happy WIP Wednesday everyone! Thanks for the tag @thequeenofthewinter Excited to see everyone's wips this week and progress :) I'm tagging @throughtrialbyfire @dirty-bosmer @your-talos-is-problematic @mareenavee @kookaburra1701 @orfeoarte @ladytanithia @lucien-lachance and you! my friend behind the screen!

My WIP this week is a beaded portrait version of Michelangelo's La Pietá with Neravar and Azura, really excited about this piece <3

[lixenn]

OCtober 2024 day 28: monster

Would Fae count as a monster? Well, when it's Yves I would say it definitely does. Don't be fooled by their pretty outer shell, they will ruin you but I think at this point it might be too late for most of you...

In a surprising turn of events I'm way more satisfied with the skin and facial features than with the hair. I might just suck at drawing long hair, that's very much a possibility.

Once again I tried out the different art style this time with colour palette number 3 🫡 (these palettes really rock btw I have experimented a little bit with others too but it never worked out OTL). I really like the warmer tone in this one and the green felt very fitting for the Fae part of all of this, so winning 👍

I have not used any references for this whatsoever, completely winged it so please have mercy if I've fucked up the Fae visualisation, I mostly just did whatever. Might have turned out a bit more elvish tbh but honestly what do I know about fantasy races? Not much really.

[abyssleaves]

POV: Austin is too busy mocking their infodumping session to notice all the tripping hazards on Jacob's walkway.

(Shame bonus for my own amusement and nobody else's: )

[arlebian]

c1r1 arle B) drew her wife & it brought her home