Now that we've learned about the basic forms of the proportions and the forms of the facial features, 1
It's time that we talk about advanced anatomy. Anatomy is a abroad and separate area of study that's really 2
about learning the nuances and the design of anatomical bodies. 3
Characters are much, much more than just anatomy though, but a strong anatomical knowledge is a very useful 4
tool. 5
There's unfortunately no way around learning advanced anatomy. 6
It really has to be done and it really will benefit you. 7
There's no real, 8
"I've made it" or bar level like, 9
you know you've reached the bar of studying anatomy, because it's so complex, 10
you will be studying it probably for the rest of your life, just in more and more detail, and getting 11
more and more skill, and remembering the nuances of the anatomical forms. 12
Nevertheless, your skills keep improving as you create art and study anatomy further. 13
Every subject has a grind. 14
If you're playing guitar. 15
If you're playing an MMO RPG, there is going to be some point where we have to grind. 16
We are going to be playing that C chord or that A chord or whatever. 17
A million times to get the pattern, and anatomy is very much like that. 18
Everything has its grindy parts and for character drawing anatomy really is one of the big grindy parts, 19
and not ludicrously fun, but you know you can make it fun, and it does get more interesting the the more 20
you learn about it. Studying anatomy really is observational art. 21
It's about repetition, learning the anatomical elements off by heart. 22
And it's not really hard to grasp once you understand the fundamentals we covered in module two and 23
three. 24
In a sense, it's visual library development of the human body, you pick up an element that you want to 25
learn. 26
For example the neck muscles, and you study them and you draw them from multiple angles and you just 27
keep doing it until you have a good understanding of the nuances and the shapes of those muscles. Or 28
the skeletal structure, or the skin surface area. 29
When you learn anatomy, you'll want to focus first on the skeletal system and the skull. Really do studies 30
in depth on those elements, draw them out. 31
Rinse and repeat. 32
Then focus on all the muscles. 33
Same deal. 34
And then augment that knowledge with figure drawing of the male and the female bodies. The anatomy resources 35
and study guide in module 3 provides a great resource as well as a guide to have you study anatomy efficiently 36
and effectively, to get to a good level is not going to take forever. 37
I promise you that. It really isn't going to take forever. 38
There are major anatomical bodies and minor anatomical bodies and really getting the major bodies 39
in is what counts the most for getting hard core really advanced looking anatomy. Anatomy should however, not 40
be a stumbling block for you, and I want to emphasize this. 41
You'll likely always be learning anatomy throughout your life. 42
For now, follow the anatomy study plan resources that are included in this module and learn it slowly 43
but continue on with the course. 44
Many of the concepts you'll learn later in the course, especially in terms of gesture drawing will rapidly 45
increase your anatomy learning speed, because of course, gesture drawing, the advanced levels of gesture 46
drawing really is doing figure drawing, doing life drawing . of the human body. 47
And that's really what we want to be good at: drawing the human body 48
well. All right. 49
This is the end of module three. 50
Let's move on to module four: Gesture drawing.