not quite a rant on drawing books

[ratcreature]

Remember a while ago back when I posted this scan of a kind of terrifying smiling Wolverine that was an example in the Wizard How to Draw: Heroic Anatomy book? Well, back when I first leafed through the book I was also pissed off at the chapters on drawing women (at some chapters more than others), but I couldn't quite figure out what exactly

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Thank You

[anonymous]

All of your knowledge and experience with art has helped my own drawing to take even more shape and life. I have always enjoyed drawing and art work and I hope to see more of your drawing in the future.

[nuchtchas]

May I suggest to you the Andrew Loomis books. yes they were written a long time ago but the information is still the best out there. Also, if you learn the basics correctly and understand proportion then you can exaggerate and make super heroes much better. Most comic artists and cartoonists will all recommend if you are going to use a book, use Loomis to learn. Learning from books about comics or cartooning end up jipping you in the end and giving you just this problem.

Also, I am right there with you on these thoughts, very interesting read.

[ratcreature]

I am familiar with Loomis' books, which are okay, though it is rather wtf that he insists on drawing the naked sample women still in high heels, iirc. I'm also familiar with Bridgeman and any number of other anatomy drawing books. My main problem of the classics is their implicit racism, since you won't see a single non-white face or body in them.

[nuchtchas]

yes there is that problem I will agree, though I have learned once I got the basics to then move from drawing books to live models and photographs to work from. I find once you pass the basics you no longer need a book to tell you how to draw, you draw the shapes and move on.