Find your way around DA #6: Anatomy by Iduna-Haya, journal
Find your way around DA #6: Anatomy
One of the basic skills in art is anatomy. Although it sometimes may seem as if an artist doesn't bother about the anatomical corectness of their characters (cartoons, anime, caricature), you can be sure that they know perfectly well how to draw it if they had to: Know the rules, so you can break them all the better.
Unfortunately that's much, much easier said than done: Learning anatomy is bloody hard. It takes time and dedication to learn just the basics, and even established artists often struggle with it. Luckily many people have gone before us, and some of them have been kind enough to make tutorials, to hopefully make it just a tin
Find your way around DA #1: Pose References by Iduna-Haya, journal
Find your way around DA #1: Pose References
Coming up with interesting, accurate poses for your characters can be difficult. Either they all end up looking the same, or the poses just don't look right. Drawing from a reference is a great way to practice this. Luckily, there are lots of amazing resources available to help you out, both here on DeviantArt and one the big bad WWW. I've listed the ones I know here, so you don't have to do the digging.
- I've picked resources that focus on poses, not on anatomy. This means that the drawn pose references listed here are not necessarily anatomically correct. Though the two are definitely related, to me they're not necessarily the same thing.