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Anonymous05/09/26, 04:06No.7936811When studying anatomy...
...Is it super important to know how things fit on the bone?
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Anon05/09/26, 04:23No.7936821
I think it depends on how much you want to flaunt your anatomical knowledge in your art, and whether or not YOU feel you need to know how it attaches to the bone.
If you're just trying to draw a reasonable human figure, I think just knowing the general shapes, and where the hills and valleys are is enough - if you're trying to draw a human figure with every muscle glistening in the light, then learn where all those muscles are.
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Anon05/09/26, 04:30No.7936823
depends on your skill level/permapreprebeg/ - fuck you draw the primitive shapes/permaprebeg/ - fuck you draw the primitive shapes add foreshortening on top of your umagination/beg/ - break down the shapes/beginning to go int/ - look at anatomy pictures, find the head, spine, longest limb stretching out draw their gestures/int/ - find your own finish drawings (not studies) and compare with anatomy references and fix your drawings, and redraw the fix.
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Anon05/09/26, 04:33No.7936824
Is the whole point of studying being able to subconsciously draw things correctly (like the head etc.)
I felt like I was putting lines on paper rather than learning anything whenever I used techniques like negative space or measuring.
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Anon05/09/26, 04:41No.7936830
Yes, but study them separately. Become familiar with the bones, and become familiar with how the muscles attach to them
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Anon05/09/26, 04:45No.7936831
You only need to know the landmarks and where the joints go. After that it's just figure out how the muscles would warp and twist to accommodate the posture.
At the end of the day it's also just knowing what are the interesting poses and then how the anatomy has to twist and bend to fit that pose.
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Anon05/09/26, 05:00No.7936839
you can do whatever you want
that's the secret
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Anon05/13/26, 07:48No.7940099
You're more looking for landmarks for where muscles start and stop. Yes, if you are drawing hyper real art you will be breaking down the figure as shown in your example. But most people are not going to spend 10 hours setting up their drawing. Thus you learn to put things where they are supposed to go in a general sense.Think of the body as as tree. Obviously the trunk has to be there, and the branches must be placed properly, but people won't notice if leaves are out of place a little bit.
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Anon05/13/26, 10:27No.7940159
Eventually when constructing a figure that knowledge comes in handy. It turns drawing into a Sudoku puzzle. The most important bones are things like the clavicle because it's a nexus point to so many muscle and bone. Understanding where muscles attach gives you greater clarity but you don't have to show it all off.Lately the sartorius muscle has been a god send for me when drawing from imagination when trying to figure out what are the planes of the legs I'm seeing, it connects at the corner of the pelvis (if you fit it into a box) To the (in)side of the tibia
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Anon05/15/26, 09:23No.7941754
Yes, absolutely. Bones are not only sometimes visible but they make up many important landmarks for how other muscles come together. Like of course you should know elbows and knees, the head of the femur (this is where the gluteus medius wedges into the gluteus maximus and forms a sometimes-visible dimple), the clavicle and the head of the humerus (similar deal with deltoid muscles) the bottom of the ribcage, the iliac spines on the pelvis, etc.
It's also not just how muscles fit on the bone but how they fit into each other, and again, bones can provide landmarks for this. Take note of when muscles overlap and when they wedge into each other. But first of all, muscles are just basic shapes so you should know how to draw basic 3D forms before you tackle anatomy at all.