Sketch it Saturday - Anatomy isn't always essential while drawing

Sketch it Saturday

Anatomy isn't always essential while drawing 

Drawing has always been a tricky task for the amature artist's who are trying to learn how to draw. Especially the youth who can't afford to study art and when they get into a course to study it, no art teacher actually teaches you how to draw, they expect you to already know how to draw so then they make you talk and write about art, apart from actually doing it. Which had happened to me, so even though I have been to college and soon to be going to university, I'm actually self taught and have been for most of my life. 

But what I am here to talk about is the anatomy and how its not actually essential in drawing, im not saying its not relevant or its not needed but, you don't entirely need it, as all you need is to remember the basic shape of the body and the outline of the figure as you can see in my sketches and just draw.

The hardest part in drawing a figure and characters is the proportions and what you can see in my drawing above is that I have done the figure fine but what makes the sketch horrible to look at is the proportions, its one of my biggest weaknesses and its the most important and vital part in making realistic and beautiful characters and its something you all need to consider!! 

So my advice to new artists and amateurs is that don't worry about the anatomy at all, just focus on getting the proportions right and then you will become a great artist sooner than everyone thinks, so take my advice and come back if you need more.

Remember this Process:

Light sketch - Proportions - Light Anatomy - Shading

Do Your Best, Focus Less

my sketch to the left is from imagination, no reference and the sketch to the right is from Photo reference.

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Also there is a video on youtube to demonstrate my lack of skills in proportion, but anatomy is from imagination:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6TyXkzmV5o&list=UUZwlO-g8QCM9ahgRKvEQIzw