How to Draw: Leg Anatomy (Patreon)

Good artists never skip leg day!!

This is the first of hopefully many anatomy tutorials.

It was inspired by a patron who wanted to know more about how to draw legs.

"I would appreciate some more guidance on really understanding how to go from hips to legs to feet."  - Mogus.

To answer this question we gotta get into anatomy...

Do you need to know anatomy to do good gesture drawing?

.....well, no, but it helps!

Depending on your goals, your style and your reason for practising gestures, you don't need to know anatomy.

BUT!

Knowledge of anatomy is what brings believability to gestures. That's what I believe and that's how I like to teach it.

Having knowledge of what happening beneath the surface allows you to know what to show when and when to leave other information out.

In the video I cover:

• the skeleton
• 4 x muscle groups
• applying anatomy to gestures

There is A LOT of information in this video, so I suggest you watch it in segments, or revisit it a few times for it to really sink in.

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Do you have any further questions about the leg anatomy?

Is there another part of the human anatomy you'd like to see a tutorial on?

- GG

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Resources

Books

These are the 2 books I mention in the video:

• Figure Drawing: Design and Invention by Michael Hampton
• Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist by Stephen Peck.

Youtube

'Proko' - Stan Prokopenko, the tutorial master! He has great videos that explain the anatomy very well. A good resource if you want to go deeper with the anatomy.

• Quads
• Hamstrings
• Calves
• Adductors
• Skeleton