Muscle study.

Hi,  I thought I'd talk you through some of my research pages. My research pages are made up of many sketches, which are crucial for me to reach an understanding of the form I intend to create. This is very important if I wish to model something as complex as the human anatomy accurately. First of all I begin to seek images from where ever I can, of the kind of bodies I aim to recreate, in this case its of body builders. Google images, deviant art, fitness magazines and even gym motivation pages on Facebook are all choca block with images like that. As well as body builders I gather pictures of human anatomy and muscle structures.

Dorian Yates posing for the Mr Olympia competition.

Once I have a good understanding of an overly developed muscular body I use the anatomy images to learn which muscles are which, and how they connect to each other and contract during movement.


 To make it as realistic as possible its important to capture and understand the lesser known muscles and bones. for example the serratus and clavicles. These small details is the key to transforming a model from inaccurate to excellent.

These are a couple of the pictures from sketch books that are full of similar drawings. Hours of research and sketching is taken for me to be able to make my models.