05-17-2013, 12:04 AM
Cool anatomy stuff. Glenn Vilppu and Michael Hampton were my anatomy resources for the most part, and I highly recommend both to anyone trying to seriously nail down anatomy. Bridgeman and Loomis were a good beginning stepping stone, but for the hardcore I'd go with the former mentioned names. Also what were you trying to achieve with the movie study? Often I find that if I don't have a clear goal in mind when doing a study (lighting/values/form/color/etc) then all I end up doing is just copying a picture. Something I've started doing is to do what Anthony Jones calls "sprints", which are just small, isolated studies. Example - I want to study a particular lighting setup, so I'll grab about 6-9 different references images that all share this same lighting scenario. I'll set them up on one page and just make observation, take notes, paint quick, small examples to get the basic idea down. After that I try and apply it immediately to something. This way I'm actually combining studying with my original work. Hope some of this helps. Keep going!