/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6792385
>>6792404
sorry if I'm not the anon you were expecting, but I have a few suggestions.

First, in approaching anatomy, I don't think you're doing anything wrong. In fact, I think the whole subject of anatomy is overblown. Anatomy is not really as difficult as people make it out to be, especially for cartoonier or more comic book type styles. I've never really gone through the Richer or Goldfinger books, and I may never do that, though I have them on my shelves.

The most important part of making your drawings convincing is the feeling of form. Form is achieved through your ability to cram 2 forms together convincingly. This is what Vilppu talks about when he asks you to draw bean shapes, being able to connect the bean shapes, and squishing and smashing those bean shapes together. A single form is easy to draw, but having 2 forms interact, let alone several dozen forms on the human body, can get very difficult. My anatomy knowledge is Hogarth-tier, very basic, but I can handle those basic forms fairly well.

So my suggestion for you is to just first learn all the muscles. Take a week or a few weeks, and learn where they attach on the skeleton, where they insert and originate. This part is just rote learning. (Loomis says you can learn it all in an evening.) After you've learned that, start doing lots of figure drawing, or Bridgman studies, or Morpho studies. All of them work. The point is to give your muscles a convincing shape and form. Buy lots of Superhero comics and study the muscle figures there, or buy Baki the Grappler. Buy photo packs of nude models and do figure drawing. Study your favorite artists. Go through Kim Jung Gi's sketchbooks. Your anatomy knowledge will help you out, and your figure drawing will reinforce your anatomy knowledge, and it all compounds exponentially.