Kat's Legs-Up Display (Exclusive 3 of 4, 5/24) (Patreon)

Face it, you're getting more Kat. c:

I've found that rendering nude, or mostly-nude bodies has a lot of challenges that rendering clothed figures does not. Fabrics rely on things like wrinkles and textures to indicate their form, and especially with the articles of color having different colors, you can get a pretty detailed figure quite easily. However, with skin, there's no seam lines, or delineating lines between clothing, or obscuring shapes -- it's a relatively-smooth surface, where a lot of the form comes from the underlying structures of bones and musculature. While not all of us are biologists, or otherwise deeply familiar with the human musculo-skeletal system, when we see a drawing with incorrect anatomy (such as a poorly-drawn arm with too many muscle groups, or incorrect placement of large thigh muscles), we tend to have an instinctual reaction of it "just looking wrong". So you can be an otherwise exceptional artist, with technically-advanced rendering skills, but if you got those muscle and bone placements wrong, it's going to be noticed.

I've been spending some time going back to studying anatomy, and I'm particularly loving some of the 3d model resources available, that allow you to see the various parts of the human body, from all angles, along different layers and systems (muscular, ligament/tendon/fasciae, skeletal, neural, etc). Many of those shapes only come through very subtly in a finished rendered painting, but they inform so much of the figure, such as that hourglass shape in the groin area, or how even a well-toned tummy will manifest folds when the upper torso is bent forward, like how our friend Kat is doing. It's so much fun, and who knows, it might help me when I get to reading the Kaplan Human Anatomy and Physiology MCAT Prep book (I'm currently on the Brain and Psychology one).

Are there any interesting, unique poses that you think would be fun to see me draw? You can never go wrong with the classic, feet-in-camera shot, but it's sometimes fun to mix it up. :D