04-18-2016, 08:48 PM
My personal methods for learning human anatomy are as follows:
Tips:
- Focus on one subject a day, your memory can't hold the entire human anatomy and it's individual pieces in one day
- work on bits/individual/focused areas of the body to start off. Example: focus on just the humerus and the muscles on/around it. Learn the entire human anatomy starting off with small pieces and then put them all together when you've learned them individually.
- build from the skeleton up. You can do this by working in layers or with different colored markers.
- Learn the front, side, and back of each bone/muscle.
- after doing a page or so of focused drawings of individual limbs or set of bones/muscles, do the same thing but instead a page of 60 second gestures, and then do a page from memory only.
- work from many references for bones and muscles you find on the web and not just from one source. You want to make sure you're getting an accurate representation of your subject here.
Important Steps:
1. Understand the skeletal structure and individual bone names and shapes. This takes time yes, but is invaluable knowledge as the skeleton is the foundation for the rest of the human body.
2. Learn the names and shapes of the muscles and how they fit onto the skeleton.
3. Do a focused study from a photograph or real life and try to compare how these bones and muscle shapes compare to the real thing covered with skin.
4. Do gestures and memory drawings to apply this knowledge constantly.
The thing you want to do here is to ACTUALLY grasp/understand what you're doing when it comes to drawing from your mind without reference, and not to guess or blindly copy.
Tips:
- Focus on one subject a day, your memory can't hold the entire human anatomy and it's individual pieces in one day
- work on bits/individual/focused areas of the body to start off. Example: focus on just the humerus and the muscles on/around it. Learn the entire human anatomy starting off with small pieces and then put them all together when you've learned them individually.
- build from the skeleton up. You can do this by working in layers or with different colored markers.
- Learn the front, side, and back of each bone/muscle.
- after doing a page or so of focused drawings of individual limbs or set of bones/muscles, do the same thing but instead a page of 60 second gestures, and then do a page from memory only.
- work from many references for bones and muscles you find on the web and not just from one source. You want to make sure you're getting an accurate representation of your subject here.
Important Steps:
1. Understand the skeletal structure and individual bone names and shapes. This takes time yes, but is invaluable knowledge as the skeleton is the foundation for the rest of the human body.
2. Learn the names and shapes of the muscles and how they fit onto the skeleton.
3. Do a focused study from a photograph or real life and try to compare how these bones and muscle shapes compare to the real thing covered with skin.
4. Do gestures and memory drawings to apply this knowledge constantly.
The thing you want to do here is to ACTUALLY grasp/understand what you're doing when it comes to drawing from your mind without reference, and not to guess or blindly copy.