Greetings and a little advice maybe?

[Nev87]

First let me start off by saying HELLO! to the CA forums. This is my first post and damn if it isn't exciting. I have been reading alot of threads(like the CHOW, EOW, and the official game industry thread) but have not posted yet. Judging from my small list you can probably get the idea of what I'm interesting in.

I have been drawing seriously now for the past year or 2 maybe. I work in pastels and am in the process of teaching myself acrylics(I am fairly certain that I am grasping it but thats not what i am posting about). I can do buildings, and landscapes and what not, well not with ease, but considerably less difficulty than the human body(or any body for that matter). I am familiar with the parts of the human body, and have a general knowledge of the muscle and bone structure, but it still kicks me around like a ragdoll. I use references as much as I can to study from. But they always look thin and long(I think most of us have been there at some point). I have extreme difficulty getting the human body to fit into the perspective that I want.

Anyways I was curious on how some of you overcome difficulties of the anatomy of the human figure. Look forward to hearing from all of you :)

-Nev

[Black Spot]

Draw from life and check out Loomis.

[Laylo-Dred]

if it is something more than a sketch or practice, I scan it and flip it in ps. I immediately become aware of my tendency to skew everything to the right. You can also put it on a light table in right side down to see the mistakes more clearly.

Hope it helps

[ZenitYerkes]

I'd tell you to open a sketchbook thread, you'll get lots of helpful comments and critiques there.

Also, check this out (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=26636) and this (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=175448) too.

Have fun! ZY

[Lakeland]

Draw from life and check out Loomis.
I got the same advice when I started drawing a year ago. It doesnt get better than that. If you want to advance in human figure, you need to do lots of very boring exercises from anatomy books, drawing bones and muscles over and over again, then go thru poses and finaly go into details of skin shading. Theres no way around it. Draw 1000 bad ones just to get this 1001 right.