#if u have trouble just shoot me a dm and I'll give u the links

[ash-and-starlight]

Hi!! Your art is so beautiful and I love how detailed you design each character like they're all so unique and cute! I wanted to start getting into digital art and I've mostly only done portraits from the neck up. How did you learn to draw bodies and people in movement? (I have a new level of appreciation for comic and anime artists IT IS SO HARD) thank you!!

Heyyy thank you so so much omgg!! And yeaH I feel you so much comic & anime artists are just something else. For me the most useful things for learning to draw bodies etc (which,, I still have to learn so much about tbh) were 1. copy the work of artists I liked as an exercise/warmup and 2. learn old school textbook anatomy, like bones, tendons, muscle groups etc, and how they work (this was SO BORING but also very useful kfsfj)

there are also some very good books about figure drawing, I haven't read them all yet but I'm gonna give you a few titles

"Figure drawings for dummies" by Kensuke Okabayashi

"Drawing the living figure" by Joseph Sheppard

"Figure drawings without a model" by Ron Tiner

"Force - character design from life drawing" by Mike Mattesi (this one is very useful for movement and force lines in action poses)

"Art of drawing the human body" by Sterling I hope this helps <333