Figure Fundimentals and Anatomy Basics

[Athey]

I just finished up this tutorial. It's aimed more at beginners, so I don't know how many of conceptart.org's regulars will actually find any use out of it, but any newbs might find it helpful ^_^;


I run an anime drawing tutorial site, so the theme is anime style, but the anatomy stuff all still applies to other styles.

Let me know if you think it's any good or if it just sucks. :P

Thankies ^-^

http://www.bakaneko.com/howto/figure/anatomy2/index.html

[madster]

Mainly, it's too damn wordy, and full of exteraneous yip-yap.

You emphasize how the text is important, and then clutter it up with a bunch of chatty comments that distract from your main topic.

Also, get rid of the self-depreciating apologies. If you took half the time you spent writing about typos, and making comments that you are NOT going to correct errors, you could have found and corrected them, with no excuses and empty apologies then necessary.

You should also eliminate a good 90% of your "personal" point of view. There are too many "I's" in this thing, as well as too many "you's." Readers of tutorials want information, not a time line of what you did, and what you did next, and then what you did...Neither do they want "You need to," "then you," "your neck," "your clavicle," etc.

Good text should be consise and condensed. Especially if it so important that you have to emphasize how the reader needs to read it with red. If you eliminate all the fluff, the viewer will not need to be told to read the text, they will easily be encouraged to do so by the ease in which the information is readable...

~M