Thread 7784413

ITT: Any advice for studying anatomy without burning out?

>>7784413 (OP)
There's no one that can take away the weight off your shoulders, just grin and bear it. Remember, you're the one who wanted to learn to draw.

draw what you want.
You want lolis, it is your burden to transform all your Écorché into small girls.
You want muscular men, you transform your Écorchés to exaggerated Muscle supermen

You want transgenders, you transform your escorches into combinations of the two basic genders. Which is probably hard enough on its own

You want to draw black people, you best be able to differentiate Blacks feature of people coming from Africa and Blacks coming from USA.

You will burn out just copying and studying figure drawing, if you literally hate the subject you are drawing.

It's all long march of study towards convincing anatomy.

>>7784413 (OP)
you don't need to study anatomy much. just look up diagrams when you can't tell whats going on. or you need some references to draw a pose.

Draw what you want to make. Do your best. Now that the sketch is done, go back and find as many references as you can to fix it as your own self-taught redline.

I've made a few characters whose individual features highlight the body part I struggle with. Like a Kirby with super detailed hands, it makes tou study to get the character right. Hard to explain...

>>7784422
this is good advice
If you don’t enjoy drawing faceless figures, instead draw characters you have a fondness for.

>>7784422
>>7784434
>>7784439
>Just bee yourself :)
So this is nu-/ic/.

>>7784441
needed correction due to anatomy study autists

>>7784413 (OP)
learn a set of simplified forms. (like from bridgman) and use ref to flesh out details instead of trying to memorize every fold and bump.

>>7784413 (OP)
Similar to what >>7784507 said. I bought into the "must know every muscle by heart" thing for a while but I kind of just settled on just memorizing key forms and filling in the rest with reference as needed. The only ones I ever bother remembering are pic related cause they help as additional guidelines when drawing

>>7784422
I dont hate studying but I feel lost and need a plan, a structure.....

>>7785387
Get a single artbook going through human body construction piece by piece (loomis, hampton, stonehouse anatomy, whatever appeals to you in the artbook thread)
Today, you're studying, say, the chapter about head construction. Try doing what the book is saying to understand the theory, and then apply it by opening your favorite comic/anime/series/whatever and deconstructing all the character heads that you see. Try to rebuild them the way you just learned. No need to go super detailed, just try to get the basic landmarks/structure right. Repeat until you've filled enough pages for your daily plan. Repeat until you've completed your artbook. Turn it into a daily routine.
It's the most fun way for me, even if it's not "the best" its the one that keeps me drawing and looking at an artbook the longest.

>>7784413 (OP)
Take different approaches I’d say. Like if you’re studying portraits don’t just grind heads all day. Do some Loomis, draw some facial muscles, study a random part of the skull, break the head down into boxes, etc. Don’t stick to one artist, medium, or subject matter. You can get a good grasp at anatomy very quickly, you just have to find what in particular interests you about it and hone in on that. Also, draw from life a lot. Lots of anatomical variety in life that makes it consistently interesting to study.

Hentai.
>what?
Hentai.

>>7784413 (OP)
If you haven't yet, start by learning general proportions of the body and basic shapes. Then draw a bunch for fun, even if you have no idea wtf is happening in some parts of the body and it comes out bad.
Then study simplified anatomy. Only learn the parts that stick out most and give things volume. For the arm for instance, you can group the deltoid into a single blob, then it's just bicepts, triceps, brachioradialis, flexors, extensors. No need to learn every single fucking little bit if it doesn't add visible mass. Make sure to do some creative drawing in between body parts to apply what you learn. Even learning anatomy surface level is enough to level up your figures.
Then later, if you feel autistic enough and want to draw hyper realistic muscular models, that's when you go learn the rest in detail.
Either way, it's a lot of putting up with it and grinding through. Learn how a body part works, do some trace/copies from various angles from both muscle reference material as well as normal people, do it until it clicks then move on to the next part. Some you'll get in a couple days, others will take weeks, it's just normal, so don't beat yourself or burn out.