Anatomy, muscle practice/studies

[Dished]

http://img15.exs.cx/img15/8499/muscles2.jpg

sorry for the bad quality, theyre webcam shots.

The last two pictures are the back and the first two are the front.

[winjer]

hey man i cant really tell whats going on with those pcis but the real way to learn anatomy is to start from the bones up. The muscles will just confuse you til you figure out how they interact with the skeleton. Practice drawing just a rough skeleton. You dont have to draw every contour but just get the general shapes. In time youll figure out which little bumps are important and which arent. Once you can do a skeleton then move on to muscles. Learn them by learning their origins and insertions. This will take a while but its good fun. Try to draw from life too. Just 2d book pictures dont explain as well as real life.

[nova]

here you go

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v347/darkpink/muscles2.jpg

[jetpack42]

I'm not sure the goal of posting these for help, but just keep doing them. In the words of the wise...wise Marc_taro, "quantity is a quality of its own".

[Jason Manley]

yeah...do more...push your value range....really get those things to pop...you need to understand the big forms..not just where the forms go and what they are. the fuller the value range, the more form you can get. Look at michaelangelo for good forms if you want to keep a softer value range.

keep it up man...this stuff could go in the life drawing or the sketches section instead of the finished section...you will get more focused input in the life drawing section I think.

anatomy is awesome...keep it up

[mentler]

Good focus on anatomy---working on toned paper is also good!

I will look in from time to time---but in the mean time I have lots o demos and other stuff on our site

http://www.tsofa.com/?faculty.gallery.leg.1

[Dished]

Thanks a lot everyone. Thanks Nova for doing contrasting it. Can that be done on photoshop?
Jason: Do you mean contrast it more? Make the dark parts darker?

[nova]

hi dished,
yeah, it's done by going image>levels and adjusting that, or by going image>auto levels. i destaturated by going image>desaturate