34 Keeping Flexibility in Your Drawing
I hope a lot of you have taken advantage of the anatomy classes with Steve Huston. Furthering your knowledge of this important essential in drawing is to your lifelong advantage. Anatomy is fascinating. It is wonderfully complicated, yet incredibly simple if, when you draw, you concentrate on character and gesture rather than muscles and bones. Study muscles from all different angles and learn how they adjust to each action. You don’t want your drawings to look like they just came from the freezer — all muscles frozen and unable to adjust themselves to each action. Fortunately (or mercifully) those stringy muscle fibers have been coated with layers of drawable fat, flesh, and skin.
When drawing from the ...
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