#HOW TO DRAW ROPE AROUND ARM HOW TO#

The first step to drawing muscles is understanding what a muscle is. When you wiggle your fingers, it's really muscles on your arm doing the work. When the muscles flex or extend, they pull on our bones to make the magic happen, so to speak.

In order to do this, they're attached to our bones with ligaments or tendons. Aside from looking cool, muscles are responsible for moving our bodies.

So while the different muscles in the body have different shapes, they're all pretty much made up of the same strands of muscle fibers. Muscles are made of strands of 'fibers.' If you've ever had whole roast or corned beef, you can see the individual muscle strands in the meat. There are other good anatomy books, but those are the ones I started with, and I still use them today. I recommend Dynamic Anatomy and Dynamic Figure Drawing by Burne Hogarth.

#HOW TO DRAW ROPE AROUND ARM HOW TO#

Years later, it took buying a nice anatomy book for me to start learning how to draw a human figure properly with all the muscles attached in the right places. When I first started drawing muscles as a kid, I would give my characters 16 rows of ab muscles (more abs = stronger, right?), and squeeze a lot of '( )' lines into each arm or leg section. moreДrawing muscles is actually pretty complicated.

Drawing muscles is actually pretty complicated.

How to draw rope around arm