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Any tips for anatomy? Or

how do you avoid same face/body syndrome?

- an artist who is being strangled by anatomy studies 🥲

Shapework before details, line of action before shapework. Don’t jump into the details unless you have sound basics first.

For what it’s worth, my shapework is very angular/blocky (diamonds, triangles and squares) as opposed to rounded.

Some things I sort do automatically/without thinking:

- Elbows at waist-level

- Top of ear aligns with top of eyes, bottom with the nose tip

- Mouth on same level as where face curves into jaw

- Side of head is flatter than it is round

- An unclothed arm looks like a chain link.

I can’t give you any secret ingredients outside of drawing a lot of varied people! Young and old! Especially old, there’s actually a lot of character to cheekbones and wrinkles a lot of newbie artists are wary of playing with.

Anatomy studies can be hell, but remember what I said about breaking the details down into shapework. Your brain will be able to comprehend shapes better than it does trying to mentally trace over an image or still life.

For same-face syndrome, break the face down into its shapes (Remember the planes of the main face, side of head and cheekbones), and play with length or width of the separate components. Different types of noses—button, flat, sharp, aquiline, etc—and different types of eyes, among others.

For same-body syndrome, I’d say the same thing, but I’d also encourage you to watch pro-wrestling. I’d actually encourage a LOT of people to watch pro-wrestling for body studies since they do have a larger variety of bodies than standard ‘combat’ sports (as wrestlers don’t necessarily have to be ‘perfect’ specimens to actually be successful in their work) and they’re almost always in dynamic movement. Pro-Wrestling is where I honed my skill in drawing buffer folk! Which you can probably tell since I lost my ability to draw bishonen a LONG time ago.

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