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I've been doing these anatomy video tutorial things for many months now... Or rather, I started them months ago, but I go long periods without doing any at all because they're, well, not exactly a barrel of fun to do. They're very technical and precise, which contrasts frustratingly with my usual impatient, scribbly approach to art.

The focus on this one was arms; the torso muscles were covered in earlier lessons, but drawn again here anyway. The middle image is cut down the middle, showing and comparing the front and back views.

They are deeply useful, but sometimes it's really hard to *absorb* the information from them... Like the muscles of the arms here! Too many small and fiddly bits that I can't be bothered memorising!
The next few videos are about arms, too, so hopefully that'll solidify my understanding and stuff.

The series is called "Structure of Man", and it's not something you'd get into lightly! I'm up to lesson 145 now - with each lesson ranging between about 5 minutes and up to 40 - and it cost something like $90 for all the lessons... which is an absolute bargain, but a lot to many young people.

This is the first time I've followed along digitally; normally I use a pencil and sketchbook, but there are so many benefits to doing digital, like multiple layers, opacity, undoing, and so on! And colours! Though stupidly, I didn't really colour-code the fiddly little muscles properly. I should have done.

Anyway, I'm adding this to my gallery mainly to say "I am somewhat aware of what I'm doing!1" or something, because for some reason it bothers me when people say "have you ever learned about anatomy?" or "do this anatomy tutorial" or things like that.
(On that note, comments like "You should do this other tutorial instead" would not exactly make me smile.)

Description
I've been doing these anatomy video tutorial things for many months now... Or rather, I started them months ago, but I go long periods without doing any at all because they're, well, not exactly a barrel of fun to do. They're very technical and precise, which contrasts frustratingly with my usual impatient, scribbly approach to art.

The focus on this one was arms; the torso muscles were covered in earlier lessons, but drawn again here anyway. The middle image is cut down the middle, showing and comparing the front and back views.

They are deeply useful, but sometimes it's really hard to *absorb* the information from them... Like the muscles of the arms here! Too many small and fiddly bits that I can't be bothered memorising!
The next few videos are about arms, too, so hopefully that'll solidify my understanding and stuff.

The series is called "Structure of Man", and it's not something you'd get into lightly! I'm up to lesson 145 now - with each lesson ranging between about 5 minutes and up to 40 - and it cost something like $90 for all the lessons... which is an absolute bargain, but a lot to many young people.

This is the first time I've followed along digitally; normally I use a pencil and sketchbook, but there are so many benefits to doing digital, like multiple layers, opacity, undoing, and so on! And colours! Though stupidly, I didn't really colour-code the fiddly little muscles properly. I should have done.

Anyway, I'm adding this to my gallery mainly to say "I am somewhat aware of what I'm doing!1" or something, because for some reason it bothers me when people say "have you ever learned about anatomy?" or "do this anatomy tutorial" or things like that.
(On that note, comments like "You should do this other tutorial instead" would not exactly make me smile.)