Anatomical Figure Drawing
Exploring figure drawing from the ground up — gesture, skeletal structure, and muscular anatomy across the body, head, hands, and feet.
Project
Figure Studies
Category
Illustration & Anatomy
Roles
Student
Digital Artist
"Muscles are kind of the manifestation of the life force. But what is the life force? How do we connect with it? And it’s usually a design issue of some kind.”
-John Watkiss
Over the last few years I've gotten really into studying figure drawing. At first it felt like returning to my roots, but quickly I started seeing that truly amazing illustrative figures originate with design fundamentals.
It's not that the figure needs to be beautiful, it's that it needs to be compelling. And this can come from being well balanced or purposefully imbalanced to evoke meaning and emotion. Bodies are the tumbling shapes and rhythms of forms that intersect in interesting ways. For the most part, all people follow the same ratios that are just stretched and softened in different ways.
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