/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>5128683
not the anon you're replying but I'm replying because this seems to be the biggest beg trap ever

do not study anatomy in-depth (as in beyond what the major surface muscles are) before trying to learn the how and why of gesture. it really is putting the cart before the horse. gesture teaches you to simplify complex figures and think of them as one flowing, inter-connected piece. what most beginners really need to do is to learn how to simplify the figure to make it easier to understand and draw (this is why the Vilppu/Huston/Hampton/etc style of constructing ontop of the gesture for everything works so well).

with most things in art you want to work from the general to the specific. so with focusing so much on the minor details of anatomy and trying to apply all this knowledge to figures you are drawing, you are in reality making this shit far more complicated than it should be at first because you are ADDING information to it, so you get lost in the details and you lose focus on what is actually important (the overall action of the pose/character). once you got the overall gesture and basic masses in perspective of the pose figured out, then you can concern yourself with the anatomical details if they're neccesary to make it more convincing. and besides, in most people you can't see all the muscle separations unless they're super diced.

if that doesn't convince you, then maybe the fact that it wasn't until i started incorporating beginning every drawing with a gesture that I was able to draw from imagination consistently. because like drawing what you see, gesture drawing also helps you simplify the ideas into your head to make them easily drawn.