"Understanding anatomy is often the key to an artist's understanding and interpretation of the body." The perfect oppurtunity to use my anatomy book 'Anatomy for the Artist' by Sarah Simblet. I've used it a few times before as practice but now I can link it into this work so hopefully it will come in useful. The book shows how to look inside the human frame to map its muscle groups skeletal strength balance poise and grace. Selected drawings superimposed over photographs reveal fascinating relationships between external appearance and internal structure. This book helps guide the reader to see the human body afresh offering techniques and attitudes that imagiatively show how to observe and draw the skeleton, head ribcage pelvis hands and feet. To start of we drew different people in our class for 3-5 minutes. It was very cluttered with all of us trying to get a good view so parts of my drawings are cut off or improvised- it was a fun exercise though. My style of drawing is basically copying down exactly what I see but Michael explained to us that drawing a basic structure is a better way of drawing as you can get the proportions and anatomy right.
Along with my own books I also read up on the books Michael Provided us with which where 'Perspective Drawing Handbook' and 'PERSPECTIVE. A Guide for Artists, Architects and Designers'. They also explain perspective really well so I tried recreating some pratice drawings from them just to get a better understanding.
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