These are two areas I feel im weak in and of course I wan't to improve in them to produce better work. With that said does anybody know any good websites or books on the subjects at hand? Or any techniques you may have picked up from experimentation thats cool too.

I'll let other people post their favorite online tutorials - there's TONS of that type of thing on the web. Try Penciljack , for example.

My advice from personal experience is - don't stay in your comfort zone too much. Force yourself to draw the stuff you know is hard for you. Over and over again. Don't think about whether or not something is going to be difficult when you put together your page layouts, just go by what you think serves the story best and then try your damnedest to make it work. You'll mess up a lot, but you'll get better.

Your sig seems a little big there.

Anatomy for the Artist

Reduce your sig size. the mods and admin don't like it if it's that big.

I figured it was too big i forgot to resize it. I couldn't get it to work right anyway.

Honestly if you want to vastly improve your anatomy drawing, life drawing classes are the best way forward, within 2 months your artwork changes (for the better) and it also helps with non-anatomical drawing as well. For perspective I hear that Perspective for comic artists is one of the best books out there, I still need to check it out for myself.

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Honestly if you want to vastly improve your anatomy drawing, life drawing classes are the best way forward, within 2 months your artwork changes (for the better) and it also helps with non-anatomical drawing as well. For perspective I hear that Perspective for comic artists is one of the best books out there, I still need to check it out for myself.

I can see how life drawing would be helpful.

Lifedrawing is ridiculously helpful. Also, Perspective for Comic Book Artists, by David Chelsea, is very good - I haven't read all of it yet, but what I've read so far is very good. It explains perspective with examples and words, without being too complicated - but also without making you feel stupid.

Learn the little building blocks of how nature works.

I recommend the artist's anatomy books by authors like Burne Hogarth (his "Drawing the Human Head" is especially good), Stephen Rogers Peck, George Bridgman, and Joseph Sheppard. Sheppard is the best author for learning female anatomy. If you want to learn quickly how to draw heroic, square-built males, Bridgman is best.

The best anatomical art will use no models, just the imagination. Life drawing does help, but it's best to know what the human body looks like inside and out.
The traditional schools of comic art help.

Once you learn how to draw a heroic male body from scratch, you can advance to females, skinny people, fat people, old people, and short people. I believe in terms of difficulty they descend in that order. It would take a lot of confidence, I think, to draw a naked 70-year old woman who's 5' 1" without using a model or photos.


With perspective, you have to develop the means to mentally visualize space. It's easier to learn exterior perspective than interior perspective, which requires more mental intensity. A few good comic book hints on building perspective are included in "How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way".