Everything You Need To Know About Choosing and Using Anatomy and Art Books.
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- How do you use Anatomy and Art Books for the best results?
Feeling frustrated that you have a stack of anatomy and art books and don't know what to do with them?
Great video on learning anatomy. No one book does everything. You will end up with lots (I mean lots) of anatomy books, ranging from artistic to medical reference. Bridgman isn't for beginners. If you already have experience, it will make a lot of sense and one of his key principles is the idea of "interlocking and wedging" forms. Once you see this, you won't unsee it and you see it everywhere. My initial reaction to Bridgman was the same as yours, but after some experience I appreciated it and ended up drawing many of his drawings from a number of his books. For his anatomy drawings, I recommend using colored pencils to differentiate muscles, muscle groups, and bones. It really makes learning faster. I started my journey with the *Anatomy Coloring Book* with some Crayola color pencils and I highly recommend this book. Another great book to start with is the *Morpho: Simplified Forms* Learning simplified forms (and you will end up with your own simplified forms through practice) speeds up the process and allows you to focus on what's important. Finally, learning the mechanics of how the body works is great, but not the end goal. The end goal is being comfortable drawing the human figure in any pose with foreshortening and in perspective.
Hey a Simian I have heard so much about Morpho, I may need to check that book out at some point. Glad to hear you were able to go back to bridgeman. I’ll see what happens in my experience. Thanks for this information! I recently completed the anatomy book I was working through. So let’s see!
Thank you so much for that. Bridgman looks insanely difficult. I'm using morpho.
Highly recommend "Figure drawing for artists by Steve Huston", one of a few book that gives exercises between topics and "Force: Dynamic life drawing by Mike Mattesi" with a really good approach
Hey Vincent, great summary. I making the most progress when go through these stages: I draw a pose from reference very sketchy. If I like it, I refine it with simple shapes. After that I draw in some details. Then I do the whole process from imagination and try maybe to exaggerate the pose to get more dynamic. Btw I also struggled with Bridgeman but I think it's more for pro artists who want to dive real deep and maybe teach on that subject. Keep up the good work and greetings from Germany.
Hey Ganther. That sounds like a really great process I do many of those steps as well. Probably can work on exaggerating poses more. Yeah r te he bridgeman book was okay but it felt like I wasn’t learning … it felt more like I was just copying drawing. Im good to know im not the only one that had issues. I think you may be right. I had a great boss from Germany when I am was a student worker in university! Welcome!
Hi Vincent, spot on with finding books that gel with you! You thought Tom Fox’s book was great while I disliked it. And you didn’t like Bridgman, while I thought it was fantastic 😆
Lol so true. So true.
A lot of the books the older ones and some newer ones the way they explain things is pretty complicated. I have like the Andrew Loomis one how to draw the head and hands the method is really simple I learned it from Proko, but when I actually read it in the book I had no idea what he was talking about.
Hey I have that book as well Andrew Loomis. Haven’t started using it as yet. Can’t wait!
@@canilearntodraw2579 yeah I only understood it by you know watching videos on CZcams it's so hard to understand Old English how people used to talk like in the 20s. Even if I don't learn anything from it I guess it's a collector's item because everyone regards lumos as a historical figure
Exactly what I needed. Thank you so very much! :3
You're so welcome! I appreciate your feedback. It keeps me motivated. Now you have become a part of my journey. ☺️
Thanks for mentioning me this is what I wanted to know. I got a hard time focussing because I have ADHD and there's just so much information it's hard to know what the focus on when learning about art
Hey William, thanks for the great question!
Hey Vincent! I've been following your journey as I progress on my own and I had a couple questions.
What resources did you use for perspective? Did you start learning anatomy before or after you had a grasp on perspective? And lastly, while doing you anatomy drawing, are you thinking about your vanishing points, or are you just drawing?
Enjoying your channel, keep it up!
Hey Richard. Great questions and glad to have you along as we journey together. The majority of my “official” perspective work came from draw a box. That really helped in with me being able to better position and turn boxes. However I still found that when it comes to setting up entire scenes it is still difficult to make things look like I want. It takes practice even when you get the idea. I’m getting better but still need lots of work.
I did have a bit of anatomy I guess in the proko figure drawing course. That was prior to any perspective work. And that was tough in some points, very frustrating at times. I think just being able to rotate boxes would have helped. Although, you will initially think you understand box rotation until you try to use it in something useful I have found. Which seems to the the story of learning to draw on a whole. Conceptually the things you need to understand are simple, until you try to do it ☺️. So don’t get too frustrated. It has happened and is still happening to me and I’m sure all of us.
I’m I thinking about vanishing points when drawing anatomy. Yes and no. Yes because I’m still constructing things and that requires boxes in perspective. But the more you draw some of that starts getting pushed to the subconscious. Like riding a bike. When riding a bike you don’t think of balancing it … but technically you are … just it’s subconscious. I’m not at that stage yet … but my eraser is enjoying a longer lifespan 😁.
Don’t take yourself too serious. Prioritize having fun and can’t wait to see or hear how things continue on your journey.
@@canilearntodraw2579 Thank you for the detailed response! This is definitely encouraging. I'm currently on lesson 3 of draw a box, but I've kind of stepped away from it to focus more on sketching for fun. I need to make my way back around, at the very least I need to start the warmups daily.
Anyways, I'm always tuning in to see your progress, so please keep us updated!
Yeah I actually didn’t finish all of draw a box I have 2 lessons left. But they started to get very technical and having you buy French curve guides and ellipses guides to get things as accurate as possible and I was like … okay this is heading in a direction that is not fun. So I hit the breaks. So I understand the struggle. But even with that said. I think that that course helped me A LOT. So get as far as you can and take as many breaks as you need to keep your sanity ☺️
I see we've purchased some of the same books! XD
I have all three you're showing here early in the video by Tom Fox, Bridgman and Jeff Mellem, and I think they're all exceptional resources, although most people are probably going to pull their hair out figuring out how to study Bridgman in the best way to get the most out of his stuff.
Graphicon!!! Great to hear from you! The OG ☺️. Yeah, I think I definitely needed more guidance on the bridgman stuff. I didn’t feel it was translating into usable information for me. Really enjoying Tom Fox’s book.
Hey how have yo been I have been following your channel (found it through proko) since the beginning, it's amazing to see your process.
Hey supsup! Yes I remember! I’ve been good. How are things going for you? It’s probably soon time for me to do another longer project like I did back in the days. Probably when I get through this anatomy book. I am finding that when I draw from reference now it is easier to figure out what is going on and draw something that makes sense. What are you up to these days?
@@canilearntodraw2579 Hey, I am still very much on my drawing journey myself. The coolest thing about learning atonomy is that you will translate into animal drawing aswell, you'll start to recognize it horses, rabbits and dogs. I hope you keep us updated :)
Thank you sir 🥰 for answering my question in deep manner
Yeah no problem. Thanks for the question!
That bridgman book confused the heck out of me
Lol 😆 yeah didn’t work for me. The pictures are vary cool to look at how they are stylized … but it was difficult to put into my own drawing.
Hi bro! I actually had a similar problem about how to actually apply these anatomy books, what a coincidence! This video cleared up a lot of things for me. But right now im going through tom fox's book and i find that parts such as the head and ribcage use a lot of planes to represent the shape. Am i supposed to actually draw out these complex shapes or is it something that i have to apply intuitively?
Well I’ll tell you what happened to me. Don’t know if it’s right or wrong or ideal. I had similar questions. I thought maybe I needed to construct completely and the. I would be able to do it myself from imagination. What I am learning about myself is that everything just informs how you draw… little by little it all soaks in. Not in large obvious ways … unfortunately … but months down the road you look back and just find things that you struggled with before easier. If you are doing more academic studies and drawings and that’s all you want to do then the transfer of information and practice seems more direct. Just my experience. The most important thing is that you keep practicing and keep drawing and keep moving forward. Eventually you will look back and go … oh wow this feels easier.
Please raise the volume of your videos. I love your videos but the ads haymaker me when I raise the volume to hear your voice :(
Thanks for the feedback stumpedtroper. I’ll see what I can do on future videos. The next three videos I already have scheduled. But I think the audio is better on those anyway. I’ll see if the software I use has something to give me a better indication of audio levels. Thanks.
Bridgman is a great book
Yes it is. Really like his designs.
How to Draw People is really accessible, but kinda ugly and doesn't quite help you transition into using the other books out there. At least it didn't help me.
i want tom fox’s book so bad
Get rid of the background music
Already did on the more recent videos. Thanks
Give away ❤ i really want it 😔