#muscle tutorial

[f88lfool]

My first anatomy tutorial. How I connect arms to the torso. Simplified the muscles for better comprehension

PS. Pectoral is misspelled as “pectorial” in the picture. Don’t make that mistake haha

And I’d love to see the art made from using these as reference, you can message or tag me.. whatever you want

Edit: The extended names of the muscles:

Neck - Sternocleidomastoideus

Traps - Trapezius

Lats - Latissimus Dorsi

[nagararts]

Here's some notes on some of the upper body muscles so you, artist, don't need to look them up

They are not medically accurate, just enough for artists to know the necessary muscles and how they work together

I 100% recommend doing the last exercise I did to be able to actually place the muscles

Here are my notes on the lower body muscles

[k-eke]

A little tutorial about how to draw pecs! 

Many asked me in the past so I hope it can help many! 

[tutorialdrawix]

RESOURCES FOR POSES

Line of Action

JustSketch.Me

PoseManiacs

Human-Anatomy-For-Artist.com

MagicPoser

MIXAMO

Pose Archives

Bodies in Motion

Posemy.art

ReferenceAngle

CroquisCafe

[malegains]

So I think a lot of Bing driven AI blogs have fallen off since the NSFW filter went super strict for about 48 hours about nine days ago. Even though it relaxed again, the landscape it left behind was very different. Old tricks didn’t work anymore. But new tricks can be discovered and exploited, and the last few days I’ve been getting my sexiest and most extreme results ever. All the stuff I’ve posted in the las six days has been newly made, not backlog (my backlog is enormous… will I ever clear it? Probably not)

In the interest of community and education, here is an example.

These four images were the result of one submission of one prompt - I didn’t have to wrestle the machine for them at all. The prompt is:

underexposed Polaroid, side view from far away, two Icelandic bodybuilding bros facing each other submerged near a hot spring, enormously muscular, golden light, loving embrace, buzzed blond hair, relaxed, unbelievably enormous muscles, muscle morph, leg muscles like enormous heavy water balloons, enormous muscular arms, high body fat, leaning against each other

Now be warned, this is a bit of a jenga tower. Moving things around too much may break it. I’d recommend writing your own from scratch but stealing specific key phrases, modifying and evolving those, see what works best for you.

Thanks to @thespacewerewolf for the “near a hot spring” trick to get them into a hot spring, and to @zangtangimpersonator for the water balloon / weather balloon comparison trick, which is a Swiss Army knife of a prompt for anyone who likes big round shapes.

This is why I unpinned my old tutorial. The spirit is the same - think of twisty ways to ask for what you want, certain scenario seem way more permissive than others, throwing in random details seems to help, etc etc etc. But the specifics have changed, and the sample prompts I built in a couple old tutorial posts won’t really work now as they did then. Keep evolving your prompts, experimenting, and sharing what works for you.

[rinupi]

SOME STUDIES OVER THE YEARS

[manitapaleta]

SEMI REALISM/HOW TO ANATOMY GOOD TUTORIAL (click for quality)

@shortest-jorts sorry for writing so much but i hope this makes sense 🤓 👍

[newlyy]

not to be FUCKING dramatic, but crochet is intuitive and logical and knitting is of the devil and feels like every step is just made up on a whim

[otiksimr]

If anyone here has tips on drawing human faces it would be greatly appreciated if you were to give them here :)

Totally only asking for a freind :)

Totally not struggling to draw faces :)

[cozylittleartblog]

Do you have any tips on drawing the Swatchlings?

frankly i am happy that i have gotten good enough at drawing these bird boys (gender neutral) that someone wants my opinions. anyway

i see a lot of fun ways to draw swatchlings tbh and i don't really know what you want tips on Specifically so i will just make notes on a few of the main things i think about when i draw them, most importantly: just make them bitches broad and fluffy, man. they're all canonically Ripped, but an important thing to remember is that they are likely completely covered in feathers! that's going to smooth out those muscular details, so you wont be able to see them, just the broadness of them.

my style is all based in gesture and shapes, so i use a lot of blocks so they look nice 'n sturdy. it's okay if you don't nail the anatomy on the sketch, i am constantly nudging things around all the way into the coloring phase trying to get the shapes right. frankly i would probably bulk out even this Example Bird if i were drawing them all the way. i usually add more fluff or muscle or chub or whatever when i detail them but the absolute bare bones of them is dedicated to blockie

i give mine these sort of vestigial wings on their arms to make them look softer, and i think about how feathers move and stick out on real birds to help inform how they'll sit on these birds, too. and i carry the soft, pointed feather shapes into the fingers so they also look soft.

tip for drawing Soft: don't get caught up making too many individual strands or feathers, soft things tend to come together in big tufts. you want big gentle shapes, not a bunch of little ones. unless you want your bird to look wet or scared in which case you're doing a great job and you've probably just drawn spamton instead

their faces are really tricky so i think of them as these kinda... non-euclidean semi-hollow pentagonal cones. there's five "planes" with the top two dedicated to eyes and the bottom three dedicated to mouth placement. sometimes you can see the far eye even though, in real life, you would not be able to see that "plane" of their face. you don't always have to understand things sometimes they just look cool, especially when characters are cybernetic birds made out of Magical Darkness. there is no rule about when to draw one or two eyes. it's just whatever looks better.

biggest and bestest tip of all about drawing swatchlings! very important! write this one down in your most favorite gel pen and Really Big! give them either tails, or tail coats. i don't care that canon has neither, canon is wrong. you can switch it out, even - my birds have tail coats as part of their standard uniforms but they can wear their real tails out on special occasions.

lastly, if you want to stick closer to a canon interpretation, i would not try to make the birds too unique, when they're on the job anyway - they like being coordinated! tasque manager is very particular about keeping them coordinated as well. but if you just want to have fun then you can make your birds as fun and unique as you want :) even though i draw them all about the same i personally love love love seeing super funky swatchling designs, making them different colors and species and such.

course summary:

make them Large. make them Fluffy. use really broad, blocky shapes and draw big, thick tufts of feathers instead of trying to detail them too much.

their heads are silly magic nonsense. draw a triangle and get funky with it. no rules, only vibes. if it vibes it stays

they always need some kind of tail or tail equivalent and i don't care what Anybody else says

if you want to follow canon, draw all the birds except swatch just about the same. if you're just here for a good time, throw that out completely and have fun with it.

[nagararts]

Here are now my notes on the lower body muscles so you artists don't need to look them up

They are not medically accurate, just enough for artists to know the necessary muscles

You totally should do the last exercise to understand how they come together

Here are my notes on the upper body muscles

[categorised-art-tutorials-tips]

Drawing the Chest Muscles

Credit: Etherington Brothers

[slick-devon]

Temple

[recurring-polynya]

Hey hey! Since you just reposted the academy lifting drabble (and I remembered how much I love it), could you draw Renji squatting/Rukia glowering at his can? If the spirit moves you 😅

Illustrate my own fanfic? You don't have to ask me twice.

God, they're so aggressively stupid, I love them so much.

[malegains]

Let’s take a scientific approach to this. I created a very neutral prompt:

wide, side profile full body shot, natural light, handsome 34 year old Portuguese ceo gives presentation to board of directors, blue button up dress shirt, black dress pants, black shoes, confident expression

Then I added the phrase

muscular backside

Accepted on first pass, 4 results returned, all underwhelming. Prototypical example:

So I modified it to be

muscular backside resembling a giant water balloon sticking out

Since water balloons sticking out have done such excellent work for me lately. Prompt accepted first try, 1 result returned.

Wow, ok, that’s a lot, probably too much. Let’s dial it back. Let’s delete the water balloon sticking out and instead have it be

enormous muscular backside

Risky because of the size modifier. But hey! Accepted first try, two results returned. And they’re NICE.

Definitely the best so far by a big margin. But the rest of him is a little underfed, isn’t it. Let’s go back to the top of the prompt and add “muscular” so that it reads

handsome muscular 34 year old

Accepted first try, two results returned.

Huh. I mean it’s still good, particularly the second one. But at best a lateral move, and at worst a downgrade.

How about we risk another yellow alert term and add “spherical” in front of enormous muscular backside?

Accepted first try, only one result, but those who dare not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose

Exquisite. But my brain says why stop there? Let’s go back to the top and modify “muscular handsome 34 year old” to be “bulked up handsome 34 year old”

Accepted first try. One result. My god. It’s alive.