SollinFaolan's avatar
yeah, google helps to start out, I think. But seeing someone draw the muscles and build can be a good experience too. sometimes seeing the sketch version is better than photos, ya know? :)
AllyEnderman's avatar
true, but also remember that when you're referencing any other draw/painted/rendered art for a drawing, you'll be referencing their mistakes and adding them to your own, so it's best to use photos for accuracy but drawn refs for clarification!
SollinFaolan's avatar
true, but it's not like I'm tracing their work or anything and that's why it's good to have multiple artists with different styles. The references are to see how one perceives the human anatomy through sketch, not something always easily obtainable for every person. seeing 3 or 4 different tutorials on how to sketch muscles from 3 or 4 different artists can assist in the thinking process when studying photos of the same anatomy. Photos can only take you so far, its the mentality of the sketch artist and their interpretation that's key, ya know? :) (this is an interesting conversation haha)
AllyEnderman's avatar
oh, definitely! that is a really good way to go about it, mainly when it comes to muscles. However, I will say with how fat rests, you should keep in mind that there are so many different ways that fat can sit on the body. Muscles are the same, but since fat is a much more amorphous solid than muscle is, it tends to have more variance. It also can depend on the person because people collect fat in different places (for example, fat collects at my thighs on me, but on my grandmother it collects at her tummy, on my mom it collects at the hips and lower tummy, and a few friends of mine have it where it naturally collects at the chest but not much of anywhere else). I have some tumblr pages of body type/anatomy references saved to my browser if you want me to send them to you!
SollinFaolan's avatar
^^" well that's cool and all, I just wanted to request someone to draw chunkier male figures is all. I know this is all really good advice and I greatly appreciate it, but I'd still prefer drawings over photos, if that's okay.
AllyEnderman's avatar
No, I definitely understand!