/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Eastern artists have greater access to models for one thing. Frank Miller has spoken about how hard he thought it was to draw girls or cars before beginning 'Sin City'. He ended up collecting lots of antique model cars in order to convey vehicles in space. Because Miller attended the Kubert School, he had a certain advantage from a design perspective.

There's certainly a tradition in western art where the portrait study paid more than the landscape, and so British art in particular was more associated with fashion or head studies than anatomy. France and Spain featured far more anatomical works, but Italians were not able to work from a nude female model for a long time, which is why Michelangelo's studies all have fake breasts on them.