[TUTORIAL] You are Making ANATOMY Harder Than It Should Be 

I love the way you explained the purpose and how to use tracing. You always hear and see everywhere that "tracing" is bad, but it makes so many starting artists think they should never do anything that looks like tracing. It is indeed such a good way to learn how to understand the shape of a drawing and how to build everything. Of course, do not trace art and claim it as your own, but tracing to practice and train your shape knowledge is something everyone should be doing.

the cube stuff is so true it's genuinely insane. im a beginner, i wasn't happy with how "flat" my stuff looked so i started to just spam cubes and blobs with form in perspective and after like a week my skills literally skyrocketed. I'm by no means genuinely good yet but the difference having even a small understanding of 3d space made is actually crazy. My favorite way to practice form & basic shapes is to draw a blob and then show how it bends and conforms to perspective using lines that trace the 3d "surface" of the blob. Also stacking squares gets boring so try making square mannequins, a rectangle for the ribcage, a cylinder for the waist and another rectangle for the pelvis.

NTS: 1. Master the art of drawing basic shapes at any angle/perspective 2. Be able to break down a reference of choice into its basic shapes curves and lines 3. Be able to trace

I don't remember who said this, but someone said that for something to be an art style and not a mistake, it has to be that way consistently. I find that really helpful and I just wanted to share it here.

The 'focusing on the curves' thing for tracing is actually such a great way of putting it! I feel like when people talk about 'good tracing' they try to make that point, but you put it in such a way thats so clear and great for using it on other artstyles!

I study art and design in my sparetime for at least 10 years now. And THAT was the must accurat and encouraging advice i have EVER heard from an RU-vid artist, in case of anatomy. Bravo! :D

SomeNormalArtist try not to be the GOAT challenge (Impossible)

This is true because usually people are so fixated on anatomy that they tend to forget about simplifying shapes. I mostly taught the kids where I worked that it is easier to use shapes to make a character like in cartoons, video games or anything than to do it the hard way. When I was young, I tend to take a image, usually a picture of the character I want to draw, open a drawing tool like Paint and use the shapes on top of the image to break down the character so I can make it on paper just by seeing how everything works

Omg I wanna slam my face into the desk. I had NO CLUE there was such an easy way to swap between variations in your art. I have desperately needed something like these layer comps 😭 EDIT: Turns out it is a 3.0 feature, and fairly new, but I still use 1.0 because screw upgrading to those later versions 😂

I'm not going to lie. This has really opened my eyes to a different (better) perspective of anatomy. Coming from a person who poured over books on realistic proportions and anatomy I can say this video has done more for me (in terms of explaining things in a more simplified and easy to understand way) than I could have ever asked for. Thankyou! Thankyou! Thankyou!!

Dude thanks for explaining the finer details in the beginning, because it’s literally expanding my brain.

This was actually great advice. So much better than being told buy a course and then hear the same info I’ve heard 100 times before

this guy has to be the best youtuber for teaching art- not only that, and he also acknowledges how amazing riot's work is.. as soon as i started playing riot's games i was so entrapped by how beautiful the characters were drawn !

Dude can I just say I love your art style? It’s very unique compared to other styles I’ve seen.

Bro is cooking hard rn

This is actually a good tutorial for my level oml! You are actually demonstrating instead of talking gobshit about the same things every other tutorial tells you with a speedpaint in the background There isn’t enough intermediate tutorials out there, so this is a nice change!

As someone who is starting to learn art this video actually helped me a lot after watching so many other guides

There is no such thing as a "legs too long".

Man this is helpful I just tried applying this to my drawing and it was not only easier but also looked better but I'm like 70% sure that I'm going to forget this the next time I draw

Bro omg five years bunch of drawing lessons and yet this one random youtube video shows me my mistakes. Subscribed

OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH. I’ve been struggling with my art lately and feeling very unmotivated because I don’t know much about anatomy and how to draw it but this has helped me so much!!! So thank you sooo much for making this video😭😭🙏🙏🙏

Somenormalartist tutorials have single handedly carried my art career 😂 thx man

The use of simple lines and being able to trace is the most powerful tool you taught me today. I usually learn to shape from structure and my memory of complete shapes. But, when you explained how to use simple lines, I the realized that I kinda remember those shapes in these simple lines. Learning how to describe it really has a lot of value to it.

best anatomy tutorial so far, feels like it came out from actual art school session, i wish i could've seen this sooner

I think this is one of the best videos on anatomy on RU-vid right now. And I spend a lot of time watching art videos on RU-vid. The distinction you made about what really is anatomy and what is another aspect of art's language. I've been doing art professionally for around 15 years and this is the first time I hear another person saying this. The way it's usually taught is flawed because it's a variation of "You have to learn real anatomy to modify it later". I think the problem with this approach is that if it was truth, it would also work the other way around: people would be able to learn "real anatomy" from exaggerated anatomy. The thing is that if it was the case, you would not run into the foreshortening issue you mentioned in one style and not in the other, which is the case. So great job putting this into words. Thank you for making this video.

This is how I ended up teaching myself due to not being able to visualize stuff in my head. I didn't realise it was an actual process! That's so cool. Learning this way (with shapes and paying attention to basic curves) is so good for drawing ANYTHING. I was always intimidated by "backgrounds" because it was impossible for me to hold an image in my head long enough, so I was basically just trapped to eyeballing references and hoping they fit my perspective (they normally didn't and all that old art looks so wonky now). But after I started studying this way, I am now able to draw in depth environments on my own. I can't stress enough how much I love this way of learning art!

Ive been following yout tutorials the way you explain things have improved! you sound so confident right now..your tutorials are one of the bases of my arts.

This gives me hope. I'll be getting an iPad soon, and wanna practice these on that. Thank you so much!

I have never been able to mentally break down living things like people and animals into basic shades. This has always held me back in art and even in using tutorials. I get the whole "spheres for joints, cylinders for limbs" etc stuff but no matter how many times I try it, it just doesn't work out and even when I can get something out of it, my art ends up very sterile looking since I can't build off of the base better. I've been trying to brush up on the basics to fix my perspective issues. Thankfully I have a really good grasp on anatomy as well as light and shadow. I've also always been good with the fluidity of plants. In fact, I used that to improve my art of people and animals once I quick adhering strictly to anatomy. Organic things definitely don't have to be anywhere near as strict as inanimate objects (and even those can be stylized). But my perspective. Phew. Perhaps I'll try drawing the shapes over my current art and use that the fix my perspective. Thanks for the informative video!

5:12 Yes, it is indeed over for you

OH. MY. GOSHH. THANK YOU SO MUCH I CAME ACROSS THIS ON MY FYP AND IN SO GLAD I CLICKED ON IT THIS HAS MADE MY ART 10 TIME BETTER (Also new subscriber :D)

This is now the goat of videos!

This is actually so useful! I've never really drawn and I've been wanting to for quite a while and just trying to draw a face structure already messes me up lol. Never actually thought about the whole shape thing. Thanks for this!

still the most helpful art channel on the platform, thanks for existing here dude

THX U FOR THE END!!!! everyone ik picks on my slightly off anatomy, THX U SOMESMALLARTIST

SomeNormalArtist you just blew my mind everything just clicked!🤯 Best tutorial ever!

4:06 you replicated the paswg style so perfectly aaa i envy you

thank you for making this video!

Thank you for making this video. ❤ I struggled with form and how to make my proportions accurate and consistent. I've had this problem for a while and many other videos were giving vague ideas on how to tackle it. I knew that I could nail a pose, and not know ANYTHING about anatomy, as long as I followed the reference, and it displeased me. I planned to do commissions but doubt I could satisfy the customers I would have gotten if I didn't get anatomy, poses and form down correctly. I struggled to find a suitable video for me that made steps clear on how to properly set up a base reference with foreshortened simple shapes, how to ignore the small, insignificant curves at first and focus on the bigger picture, but yours did just that. So thank you, you have helped a fellow artist. ❤😊

I've been trying to just draw body parts using my vision, but I'm going to just revisit the basics because my ways aren't working at all. Thanks for the tips!

One of if not the best video I ever seen on Anatomy!! Thanks! you relly helped me understand so much a sort things out for me with ths explenation!

The layer comp feature is a EX exclusive btw (fellow EX user)

Ty for the advice ❤

I actually agree with the bit in the beginning. With so many art styles and different ways of doing stuff no ones art is every bad, some may need a bit of adjusting to help with what they are trying to do but but there is no wrong way to draw. Before i started getting into drawing id watch anime and stuff but never really consider anything about the stule or proportions, so id watch it and think everything looked normal. But after awhile i started observing the animation and style way more and noticing stuff like how the eyes positions may look really weird when your really taking a look at it but when your just watching it it never really occurs. Like certain mistakes or the slight offset of a body part may be super obvious to you as an artist, but someone else just looking at it for the first time wont even notice the features you thought were so obvious at first. The biggest thing is simply confidence. Like bob ross says they arent mistakes but happy little accidents, that can give personality to your own creation.

Drawing people has gotten so much easier now that I draw the body in shapes. I’ve drawn a front, back, and side facing base all because I used references, references has helped me so much and I’ve improved a lot, my art still needs improving tho cause I’m not great with making the eyes nose mouth & hair.

I just started, but this... This is awesome. Thanks

omg Can't believe ya came back. It was lovely to see a new upload from you again after sometime. Welcome back.

This video is great for teaching artist how to use references but I think it is still great to learn anatomy cause it gives you 100% accuracy on how long or were Somthing should be on the body. I also think people are thinking anatomy is harder than it is and will do every shape\ pose tutorial just to avoid it😂(Bro literally says he don’t know how the elbow looks like 17:02)if you study anatomy you won’t have to guess things like that.

tbh this gave me a different pov of anatomy.cause after seeing many videos jst talking about muscles and everything other than visuals, that i was looking for. this video helped me out a lot and made me understand the things missing in my art.thank T_T

Im really surprised how close i have come to this just from studying other peoples art. it still doesnt look good cuz im still a beginner, but this video showed me that i have in fact gotten just a little better even if i dont draw as much as i would like

Dude thank you so much for this video i have been struggling with this type of stuff for the longest time, breaking things down like this makes it so much easier, Again thank you very much for the helpful video! :)

Awesome tutorial. Great for where I'm at :)

thank you, i needed to hear this so my brain would stop freaking out about little details that were off in my art

ive honestly taken to saying that anatomy is less about actually *being* accurate, and more about *looking* accurate. ive made legitimate stylistic choices on purpose and been told my anatomy was bad and i shouldnt hide behind my style (it was! a genuine choice! that i made on purpose! i cannot stress that enough!), ive referenced off of positions my body could make and been told my anatomy was bad and i needed to use a reference, etc.... i DONT have a perfect understanding of how human anatomy is. i make shit up for the hands and feet, i bullshit my poses. a lot of what i do isn't really calculated or really even measured, but i get so many compliments on my anatomy and, god, especially my hands and feet. its the biggest example i have of making things believeable rather than strictly accurate. i remember talking about this before, and people got really mad about it and told me im wrong and i shouldnt give such bad advice. now i've got a video i can show that explains my point better than i can!

This is the best anatomy tutorial I’ve ever seen

I missed you dude

This guy: “anatomy doesn’t need to be perfect” Me: casually draws semi realistic anatomy while listening this talking and almost drew hands with perfection

Only two hours to teach every body part?

This is helpful! Thanks!

Thank you sensei

excellent video many thanks!

Thanks man, I really needed to hear this!

3:56 you did NOT just Panty and Stocking me without warni- you did

Thank you for this bro it really helped me understand how to draw in 3d more 🙏🏾

honestly every time you post a video I feel like I ascended 2-3 floors

A two hour tutorial video? Shiiiit, we got time sensei.

found ur channel again lol its been years since i watched one of ur videos last one i watched was the hair coloring tutorial oof time goes by fast im glad u still uploading videos and being a gigachad

Actually yeah, when I started out digital art I drew for a few months without tracing, then for personal fanart, i wanted to have a specific style so i did the tracing study. I put it side by side to copy it to see if i can replicate it, but it looked off. So I traced it and noticed what I did wrong then I took the ref away and then copied side by side to see what I learned I don't trace these days because I didn't need it but it did improve my drawing a lot that I am considering doing that study again

5:07 MADE SO MUCH SENSE TO ME NOW CUZ TBH IVE BEEN TOLD A LOT TO LIKE KNOW HOW TO SHADE A SPHERE BUT I DONT GET THE REFERENCE

the "humans are more malleable than you think" is such goated advice

11:41 had me weak. You have yourself a new subscriber, sir

i have always done this. its jsut my approach to it automagically. i must be a genius

With most videos I've come across, for me it never felt like they broke it down to such basic and understandable fundamentals, but this video has done it extremely well! I learned a lot and can't wait to use this advice as I learn more art. Thanks man!

holy sh*t this is a good tutorial. gonna try this out.

yo soy adicto al dibujo, empeze hace 3 meses y sigo dibujando como loco cada dia, ahora espero a no dejarlo cuando empiece a dibujar bien

Don’t let those 4 Chan losers get you down. I know your art is good and you are a good person. Please be well🙏🙏

that was very!!! Thank you!

Right on time

THAAANK YOU for watching Baki 🤣🤣 Now u gotta do Kengan Ashura. Back 2 netflix with u SomeNormalArtist

Tbh im probably gonna rewatch this vid as iv been struggling to draw anthro feline heads but I have a lot of artists drawings of felines saved so I could use those to understand it better. Like I tried doing this before but I always got upset because I couldn’t understand how to emulate what I was going for. So this might help make that process easier

I fast forwarded too far into the video, and saw a log with a ball. Safe to say imma watch this all the way through now. 💀💀

This is how I normally view things, good video!

bro just became my favorite artist I'm obviously subscribed to😅

those two hours would be fuckign AWESOME

you know its funny, i was talking to my dad earlier and we where talking about when i was a child, and i always drew shapes with shadows starting with my crayon eating days lol Ever since then when people ask why i can draw anatomy so well, i just tell them to break it down into basic shapes... but others laugh at me like i'm dumb.

4:30 man it has been ages since I heard Yamajets Dancer track

That opening sentence is so true..

This actually helped me a lot which js the first

This really helped, thanks😄

I love u pls never die

One of the other issues art books and tutorials that generally cover the basics of anatomy is that they never cover how to actually apply that understanding to a final piece. Especially with the ones where the focus is something like the musculature of the skull of humans and drawing those correctly without the skin of the character, but in general they tend to be very detailed about how to do the thing on its own and don't include examples of the understanding in use.

love this tutorial bro im subbing

geinuely the most helpful video i have ever seen.

Soooo useful !! Thanks

Based AF. Bless you ✨️

for me take my friends head and draw it with some break down an that how i did my head anatomy same goes for body

Wait hold on this is kinda op, omg thank u

This is so helpful!!

yea. i do question baki anatomy

Vc melhor artista que ja vi no yt