How to Study Anatomy Correctly - Construct the Body
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- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2024
- In this critique, I go through several student examples and talk about the importance of constructing the forms instead of copying from the photo. I'll show you how to analyze the simple forms, understand the layers of structure, apply the hierarchy of primary, secondary, and tertiary forms and how to show 3 dimensionality linearly and tonally.
This was a long critique, but it doesn’t cover ALL the anatomy mistakes students made. For the full critique, signup for the premium anatomy course. Learn more at proko.com/anatomy
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I know this was a long critique, but get ready! We’re hitting the ground running with the foot lesson next.
Proko does exaggeration work for all body types?
Subtitles in spanish please😭😭❤
yes the foot so excited
Hi I love Drawing
Hola soy mexicano y tus consejos me an ayudado mucho aun que no hablo ingles :3
I keep putting off studying anatomy. It sounds so difficult, but I’m starting to see how it’s an important part of learning how to draw the figure.
Unless you wanna draw highly detailed figures, then studying anatomy isn't entirely necessary. At least not to the extent that you learn every little muscle and tendon. Most art is gonna be simplified shapes and shadows so knowing the simplified shapes of the basic muscles and the basic properties of anatomy (how muscles extend and contract and overlap) is usually gonna be enough.
Ethan Becker on RUclips has a good video on this. It's called "fixing prokos trash art" or something like that. But don't worry the title is a joke and he simply explains that highly detailed anatomy isn't important for most art but it's absolutely okay to learn and draw it if you want to.
EpicSC Oh thanks for pointing me in that direction! I will go check out that video by Ethan Becker. I appreciate your time! I don’t know if I’m a novice yet based on my skill level (not advanced at all) but I’m a homeschooling mom that wants to learn to draw the figure, and I just don’t know if I have the time to study anatomy. I’m more interested in stylized art than realism anyway. But I love Proko! He’s super helpful!
@@TheSCPStudio
what bothers me about ethans approach is, he suggests to learn anatomy and poses by feeling and not to get more confused about anatomy names and landmarks.
But when I do that I feel like there's always something wrong with my figure but I'm unaware of it cause lack of knowledge on anatomy.
I think best way to free my (probably there are more people like me) mind from this is to study anatomy. It isn't going to harm artists in anyway, if anything it will give you more freedom to draw something of off your imagination.
@@vikrant555 yeah it's not a good approach for some people. For me all the extra information just confuses me and makes me worry too much about putting things perfectly in place. Without focusing too much on anatomy I can stylize easier and make things look less stiff.
What I like about all these comments is each approach fits the way we learn and appreciate things. For me, I don’t know names of things but when I draw even stylized characters the anatomy is felt by my finger tips and mind. I draft the structure. Learn it. Then when I draw from imagination I know what to accentuate and soften. That works for me and I get a lot of joy from it.
I had a revelation. I'VE NEVER KNOWN what studying actually means in painting!
Thank you!
Every time I read 'color study' or 'anatomy study' or whatever, I was wondering what that actually means. How is it different from just 'replicating and maybe adding your own thing on top or exaggerating'? I ignored my own questions, though. Hungry to making progress.
Honestly, the many repititions of 'We study anatomy ...' or 'When you study anatomy you want to ...' really shifted something in my mindset. Because what you said about it making it harder to draw (on any other project that's not about studying), I could connect very well to that, and then you added that exactly that is ithe goal in studying anatomy with another 'But when we study anatomy ...' - aaah enlightenment. I feel so underprivileged right now. No wonder noone wanted me back then when I was applying for art school. HAHA.
The only thing I now still need to figure out is how gesture can sometimes look impossible anatomy-wise (real life, like when doing Yoga or Ballet). Like where, in that crazily bent leg, is the friggin fibula?!
:)
Can you explain more? How do you do better studies than just replicating?
@@dyetaa By actually not just tracing the outlines or values I see but try to think about where they origin from. Which bone is under that straight part? Which muscle forms this bulge? Why is there a little bump, where does it come from? Basically, instead of just Doing something, ask yourself Questions about what you're trying to do and find the answers.
@@dyetaa Imagine you have a wooden figure (simple cylinders, simple joints) and you have some clay. Replicating would be putting large chunks of clay on that sort of look like the reference, focusing on the shapes of the reference. Studying would be making each part then attaching it to the figure, focusing on the underlying detail with the goal of understanding why it looks the way it does.
Now you can rotate the figure and see why studying is better in the long run. By understanding the parts of it, you can recreate it much more effectively than simply copying.
In terms of drawing, you are focusing on what should be visible, what kind of shape it is, and how it should look.
@@dyetaa build bones and muscles out of 3d forms like cubes and cylinders, of course those cylinders can be curved and twisted etc. Hope it helped!
he's almost a medical student, he knows every muscle and bone and tendon name 😲
Knowing every muscles, tendons names and bones is not that hard, it's probably the easiest things you can learn when studying anatomy.
@Yeet Skideet the foreshortening and perspective, probably
@Yeet Skideet watching the whole entire video
@Yeet Skideet nerves and blood vessels
There are anatomy colouring books that might be helpful for learning all the muscles
Me: Wow, that one looks nice.
Him: [Gives feedback]
Me: Yeah, nevermind. that one sucked.
[Repeat]
note that nothing is flawless, because with that mentality pretty much every art piece in the world sucks
That's literally me😂
@@1010otep i think u didn't get what he means
Lol. Fr tho😂
No, they're all really well done, they just left out some details that Proko was looking for. It's like writing a really good essay but you forget to fully flesh out one out of maybe 5 or 6 topics you were supposed to cover. They're all covered, but one is a bit lacking.
Number 1 tip if you want to be an artist:
First be a doctor
Anatomy isn't that hard that u need to studying it :)
@@carlosprivacy2547 Yeah because who needs to study something you don't know.
@@cocorosh7295 Ever heard of self-taught learning?
@@cocorosh7295 you could just study online, or get an anatomy book, whether that be for doctors or for artists, or both
I guess but that would take a lot longer than being an ANATOMIST!?!?
This video has given me a leg up on the competition
Don't
Do
@Dominick Melendez Thank you, I will.
Break a leg
the PUNS
its crazy coming back to this channel after so many years and just seeing how lucky your viewers and students are to get information and attention like this for free. I watched a ton of stuff like this before I went to school and didn't really continue while I was in school but these are the kind of crits people pay thousands of dollars a year for.
These really in depth critiques are useful not only to the person being critiqued in the specific area of being critiqued but also to everyone else with general AND specific improvement, thanks Stan!
This was a really interesting episode. This is great info for learning anatomy and also using artistic license with the exaggeration of the gesture in a smart way, but it's also great for blocking in a painting and giving a very bold and painterly look like a painting by John Sargent or Anders Zorn. The simplified planes of the hand shown at 9:21 is a really great way to begin a painting. Blocking in those large planes with a big brush filled with oil or acrylic paint and then painting the smaller secondary and tertiary forms on top of that, can really give a very free and painterly look to the brushwork.
These critique videos are great! Big thanks to Proko for doing these, as well as the students putting their work out there to get torn up. :) An amazing free resource...
Such a FANTASTIC video! To share this knowledge and info for free is awesome! I never ever got this helpful (and essential) information in college when I got my BFA in Drawing and painting in the mid 90’s. There was almost a purposeful LACK of teaching this information, like it was coveted by our professors in fear of competition, and just not in vogue at the time.
Getting a proko review on my drawings would be a dream come true.
Everybody else: Thinks about and watches him say all those things
Me: Watching that Bob Ross pluss figure too many times and feeling weird about it..
Bob Ross: ok let's finish the shading, oh that's a little too dark for that part, but how bout we turn that into a little heart tattoo, there we go now let's just keep that our little secret, and you know what let's add a Lincoln log cabin in the background to add a story.
No one cares, find a new joke format and stop being an unoriginal sheep.
I think I was disturbed more for the naked man xd
@@TheSCPStudio Destructive much?
Yep 😆
love when you get serious you really are an amazing teacher
Hi there, Love the critique! Lot of useful tips. I like the Idea of analysing the form instead of coping the form. It makes so much difference. Your shading can become on that basis so much more powerful!
Honestly i was constantly told to learn anatomy and from listening to you makes it more clear than my home room teacher and its easy to understand things and honestly its really hard for me to learn over computer but i fell like you just changed that so basically you helped alot ill definitely look for more of your videos
Proko is one of the very great art teachers. His demos are excellent and are very useful for the amateurs like me . His lectures are quite useful..my thanks to him. Anilkumar Mumbai India.
This is why I workout, it makes learning the body easy when you know what muscle you build
YES
Great lesson, you have such a knack for teaching what is normally a very difficult concept. Thanks Proko!
Stopping at 16:00. This is---- not the direction I want to go in? I don't know, this just reminds me of when I went to an art class once and the instructor spent the whole class talking about veins in the human body and wanted us to draw each of the 50,000,000 off-shoot veins in the fingers. I feel as though I have been treading water in my art journey for 6 years. Very frustrating. I have time to study and I watch videos and even worked through a few books but I don't feel like I'm getting anywhere. It's as if I'm at the end of a path, standing at the edge of a cliff and see a hundred feet up and away from me is the continuation of my path but the bridge was cut. So I jump into the abyss and spend 6 years climbing up to that far away cliff only to see the same situation again. Meanwhile people are constantly blowing past me after a few weeks of studying because they just--- study better resources than me??? It's so frustrating because no one can help you on your art journey it seems. Because everyone will tell you something different because there is no right way to learn but there sure is a wrong way. My way. The way that took 6 years of my life and amounted to what (seemingly) everyone else made it to in 6 months just because they happened to find a random video or book or teacher that pointed them in the right direction while the other trillion books/teachers/videos point you in the direction that eats years of your life for nothing. I hate it.
How you doing now?
i like the way you try to make your students see the simple forms first because the way that i was taught was a " trial by fire " mentality to just draw and you will get better, now 7-8 years later im having to come back to the basics of simple shapes not because i can't draw them well but because i can't get my proportions right or my since of scale correct without them. I would even say try to make your students go back to the beginning again with seeing the simple shapes in less complicated structures so that the focus doesn't go off topic or the student doesn't get board of drawing the same thing.
Dude you have SO much content. It’s insane. I want to study/DO ALL the things Stan. 👌
Thank you for this! I never thought of thinking of anatomy in terms of primary, secondary, and tertiary forms before!
Great video
Learning anatomy and knowing how the human body is constructed is really important and I've seen a lot of people kind of skipping this part
DUDE TYSM!! I’m a 13 year old artist and I’ve never gotten art lessons, so I didn’t know how to even do this correctly. Thankfully we have the internet 👍
I’m 14 and l finished studying the planes of the head already and am not too bad at it so moving on
I’m also 13!
@@aliciasam5239 how to study the planes of the head
The most professional youtube lesson I have ever seen☺️🤩
Tough, fair and generous. Thanks for this Stan!
hi Proko this new vid that you release help me realise how should I really do the shadings ...... It really helps me to think how will I do shadings more :)
Is it me or is he particularly savage in this critique?
... I love it tbh
It shows that the students doing the drawings have put work and time into them and proko wants to give them harsh critiques so that they get the value of the time and work they are putting into these drawings.
These videos are so insightful. I can see why you are such a as good artist with level of knowledge you have. When you traced over the foot it look like a good way to build a perspective of the forms? I’ve got a lot of studying and practise to do. Ps love the Peter Han illustration behind you. That’s a level I wish be reach someday.
Oh good I just did lower leg studies last night- time to fix them!
When I see this I wanna get my pencil and start some drawing!
Thank you so much!!
I loved this critique. Not sure what is different but i like it. Keep up the good work sir!
hello Proko. Nice work there! You're kind. And your explanation is pretty amazing, I like it. Great! Really. Some art schools would need this kind of good explanation and kind teaching.
Thank you so much, it was very helpful. I can't wait for the next lesson!
I wonder if there will be a bonus lesson where you teach us to put everthing together to draw the whole body. Kinda like in the drawing butts from every angle lesson but including the limbs as well.
Holy crap I can see the drawing by Peter Han behind you! Loved that so much!
Time to review my Latin! Geez Stan... In all seriousness though. Flippin' awesome info, for me at least. Can't wait for the new series. Thanks for all you do.
Lol, caught the video 40 seconds in.
Can't wait! Love constructional anatomy videos!
You know proko what did you do to me?? It was like 4.5 years ago I started learning from your tutorials. It seemed so easy that I enjoyed doing anatomy first. Yes " Anatomy first"without having solid foundation in basic drawing skills. So you know the rest part of story. Now I'm learning basics. I'm learning backward bro and you and your easy peasy anatomy are the cuplrit. Lol
Yep, same thing to me. Took me 4 years to realize my mistake. Learned a lot in the process, though.
@@Khanosaurus Nonthless process is god.
Hey excuse me, you said you started by learning anatomy first without the basics and now u have to go backwards.. what should have you learned first ? I thought anatomy was the first thing we should learn. So what are you learning now ?
@@THEPURRINGMACHINE no. The basics of drawing; shape form and line quality is foundation. Anatomy comes later. Very later
so learning anatomy isn’t boring but this video was definitely enlightening and difficult at the same time😭
Very good lesson - and this is exactly what you have to do when 3d sculpting or modeling from reference: Understand the basic forms, the base meshes to construct the body parts, then go more and more into detail. Thx for uploading.
Stan very good job of explaining anatomy I like your approach of Inside to outside from bone to skin. Brilliant!
Thank you for the video, Stan, I took it as a lesson or a lead for my study plans.
"Here we're studying Anatomy. And so our goal is to learn. It's not get good drawing" a lesson I need to learn
I thought drawing legs would be easy...
...there I go again, putting my foot in my mouth
Ah, the agony of “defeat”.
It's with practice
@@ddlcp oo
@@zqxy6943: /
Stan, will you still be doing a series going through the best way to study specific anatomy books?
That sounds like a great idea!
If you are learning Anatomy geting Prokos premium content is a must!
Andrew, do you know about Loomis?
😂
@@anu1d893 yes its nice too :)
Great video! Love your concepts!
id love to see a version of this type of critique for the abs
Wow, I've never seen you so serious! Great session.
really great video, i found it very helpful :)
i need a teacher like this
I know I’m only 11 years old but I really want to learn and study anatomy. It really interests me a lot and I want to learn more about the human body. It’s always been my dream to become a professional artist. I would say I’m pretty good for a 11 year old but I’m not the best. There’s a lot absolutely amazing artists that I admire so much and would dream be like them some day. It’s always been tough for me to learn about the human body because as a child I have a pretty hard time focusing on what I’m doing and just get bored, but I’m willing to risk it all and finally live up my dream.
Awesome channel sir, you're very talented.
This channel is just amazing
This opens the meaning of 'studying anatomy' to me in a whole new light! Thank you! Also what book would be recommended for constructing the human anatomy?
He'd probably recommend the Proko Anatomy Course that this video is a part of
Michael hampton?
More, mooore, more of this! Lots and lots of anatomy please. =) It's great!
Proko, l love your critique, it's really inspiring! Best teacher ever!😍
Such a detailed video
You’re the perfect teacher because you add humour
such a great way to start the day :D
Dear Stan, I became a premium member a long time ago but never sent in any studies to get reviews by you and the team. Is it still possible to send some over also for older subjects or won't they get reviewed anymore? Thank you for answering :)
Hi i am gettin around to by a course of anatomy but i am russian and a bit worry, do you have a subtitles there on the videos and if it is premium course how often should I pass the hometasks?
Wow! awsome help! ty
hola me han ayudado mucho tus videos, por favor, este no tiene subtitulos, al español, se me dificulta, tienes algun link ?
Can you do these lessons digitally or do you have to do them in a traditional format?
It really is sad there are so many art colleges who do not teach this...some that are considered "ivy league" and have no figure drawing programs at all! I have learned more from youtube than 6 years of college haha!
is it right the cast shadow of the cylinder in 4:38?
Awesome stuff
good instruction!
damn, stan, you layin straight roasts
"those bloated forms you drew" holy shit, the dude will never get off the floor now
this is an usual critique, where are you guys from? Lala Luna Land? This isn't a roast ...wimps?
@@dasarcanaeum *sarcasm*
Thanks for saving my time.....
Do your course have subtitles in portuguese BR?
Nice tutorial
my question sir how long time to make perfect gesture?
I just went through a whole spectrum of emotions during this lol
At first I thought you were being overly harsh reviewing the submissions, and then I got frustrated and angry. I was like, "This Proko guy has no idea what he's talking about, he's got all the names of the tibulas and the fibulas and the dextrous hypercampus and all that crap memorized, but he doesn't know nothing." But then I realized that the purpose of these exercises were to LEARN anatomy, so you have to be painstakingly precise with your studies, or else the information will be misremembered.
I was discouraged. "Oh my god, I have to learn shape language but also unlearn contour drawing and learn gesture but don't just draw with gesture, use 3D forms too-- and don't forget Primary Secondary Tertiary but also remember the forms underneath and learn all these bones and tendons and muscles and fibers and veins and toenails and
It really is like being plunged back into the deep ocean of not understanding anything.
But your message at the end was inspiring-- I have even more respect for artists who know all of this stuff!
The first time i saw a video of this guy i felt so disappointed and really useless. I felt so artistically immature. I feel you, I got angry at him for saying all of these names and facts about the bones and shapes, and forms, and muscles. I though to myself "I don't need to know all of that, I just need to know the basics and I will be alright" but THESE are the basics lol. It just seems so overwhelming sometimes bc is a lot of information and things to have in mind when drawing. But there's a point where you feel more prepared, maybe more confident and critical in your own mistakes even if your art lacks of the fundamentals aspects. You just feel ready to afront the pain lmao
I dont think ill ever be an "astist" this is too much for my head. :( im not good enuf. Maybe ill try another hobby...
@@cue4070 Every hobby requires time and dedication, don't give up!
@@666Blush yea, Thought that if u're really interested/passionate abt sumthing u're more likely to be determined to work it out..
maybe im just too weak to fight off my laziness.. Or maybe art isnt really my best of interest...
@@cue4070 hey we all go through rough patches, and think that art probably isn't what we should be doing, don't let that stop you!!
One day i was listening to Ahmed Aldoori interviewing an established artist , and this artist was talking about how sometimes he wonders the same thing(even though he is really talented and is working in the industry), all this made me realise that it's one of those challenges that we must face as artists, like being persistent and continually practicing. My point is you can do this!!! 💪💪🔥🔥🔥
Oh I got here so early!! Hel ya, a new video!!!
Thank you
Great teacher
would it still be alriht if first I would start learning bones and then when learning the muscles just like start adding the muscles to the bones?
Yes. In fact, it would be better when you begin studying the muscles. When you have a strong understanding of how bones can move and bend on their joints, you'll have an easier time noticing how muscles extend and contract
People who can't draw and have no idea what doctors are taught: OMG ARTISTS CAN BE DOCTORS THEY KNOW SO MANY BONES AND MUSLCES THEY KNOW IT BETTER THAN DOCTORS
What is the black glove?
Thank you......👍👍👍👍👍
13:44 HEY! NO!, YOU taught me that a box with perfectly parallel vertical lines was "imposible", that was the word you used, those lines should very slightly tapper down! 😁
Gotta admit I sometimes watch your videos and forget the lessons and start staring at you hhhhh
I've learned more in these videos than from my art teachers(an arts high school)
I want to draw manga or japanese style comic books, any good tips on how to adapt what Proko teaches to that style?
4 months late but it really helps to study realistic drawing to draw anime! It doesn't have to be hyperealistic, just the basics will be good. I know, this advice is overdone but knowing the basics of real life will make stylized drawing easier.
hi proko how are you? a question: does your Premium Anatomy course have a transcript or caption? Thanks and have a great day!
The Anatomy course comes with transcripts with each episode. There are currently English and Chinese captions but we are working on adding more languages as opportunity arises.
you achieved demotivating me, thanks proko
Peter Han n Aaron Blaise sketches on the wall 👍
I think that's his copy of The Big Kopinski with the original sketch cover leaning on the right, too.
Can some one help how do i practice anatomy and apply it to drawing anime characters. I looked a bunch of videos but i just dont understand how to apply and get the proportions right.
I love u Proko
I love my encyclopedia anatomic BUT. why oh why do so many of the images fade out or outright stop at the connecting groups? It is infuriatingly hard to find reference of the sternohyoideus (front neck) muscles connecting to the collarbone. This is the group I struggle the most with. I love exposing the neckline in portraits and characters but bloody heck I spend far too much time in search of supplemental references of anorexic or steroid enhanced models to understand the muscle volumes of the collar upon archetypal character body types.
6:25 that's the scariest looking foot I've ever seen lol , now i know why many artist suggest certain forms , and indicate others hahaha . I agree with our host here that learning the forms under the skin ie. The muscular and skeletal systems
are important in figure drawing and painting , I'm a student of Bridgemans work and Grey's anatomy , which isn't just a TV show. I think prokos work here is very important because the human form is a very complex piece of machinery and of course our host understands this and how it applies to rendering the body in realism. Good work and best of luck with the sciences .*
note: shading reveals the forms (12:00ish)
I will like to know where did you get the anatomy figure
I think they sell them on proko.com
Could you make a course about animal anatomy? I’m interested in kangaroos specifically
i do art classes for about 6 months now and my master hasn’t taught me anatomy yet he just says study anatomy what am i supposed to do it’s so hard
like how to do ? is it that we have to do of each part of the body in details ?
Yes I guess you might have to learn anatomy of different parts of the body especially the major forms and the external muscles that affect the structure of the drawing. Starting with the head the torso the hands and the legs. Proko has so many good free videos for anatomy that you might learn from them too or maybe pickup some books like "Figure drawing for all its worth" by Andrew loomis or constructive anatomy by George Bridgman.
@@p_dusty5451 thank you
@@p_dusty5451 thanks i needed this too
Me encantaría poder pagar clases de dibujo y anatomía, he tenido que aprender casi sola, tomé 2 cursos no tan caros, aprendí si, pero principalmente he mejorado perseverando en practicar.
Me gustaría tanto aprender de PROKO, pero sus clases son demasiado caras para mi 😞
I wanted to ask ... your statement: "sometimes, some lines do both; they go with the direction of a flow and add 3 dimensionality to it" .... isn't the whole purpose of gesture to just bring flow to structure ? or what I'm asking is; shouldn't all lines do both? Thank you for answer in advance.