Stacking - anatomy reference

“The point of copying a master drawing is not to get a good drawing. You already have a good drawing, because you're copying a master. Copying a drawing is about being engaged in a personal discourse with a master artist. - P.S.

My contention is that drawing, tough as it is to master, means committing to a life-long pursuit of excellence. Drawing is the key to visual thinking. It's about exploring. It backs up concept and imagination. Drawing both explains and mystifies. - Robert Perine

Hopefully everyone is taking a figure drawing class this semester, and if not, is working hard at sketching on their own.  A solid understanding of the human form is central to all we do here.

As you may have seen, when it comes to overlapping shapes (no matter how stylized) a general understanding of how those shapes anatomically are actually overlapping each other is useful.

Here are some Charles Hue figure drawings - a great study to see how these muscles are actually intersecting and overlapping each other.

Especially as you do your character turnarounds, pay attention to these lines, however trivial they may seem and watch as you turn the figure how your lines will change.