Marco Blanco - Art School Journey - Get a load of this guy

[marco_blanco]

Cheers for noticing, I'm kinda sad no one complimented my sick sonic OC on my tablet in that drawing, but oh well (it actually is too small to notice )
I've found the torso anatomy fulfilling nice to learn... the legs on the other hand are kicking my ass!
I'll try to do one of these for each class, I must say I have so far committed them all to memory, I think

[marco_blanco]

Update Numero Dos!
It's Leg Day
These studies were absolutely wiping the floor with my ass but I ended up on top in the end!
Behold!!!

[Vonschlippe]

Impeccable work Marco, these are even better than the previous. I really need to finish this class and I'll be using your study sheets as a goal for my own practice. Fantastic, man!

[dangras-almeida]

This looks SO GOOD! Congrats man (and I laughed so hard with the guy – I'm assuming you – brushing your teeth) 🤣

Really, really good!

[Julia_J]

Oh boy, I love your little sketches

[marco_blanco]

Thanks V! I gave myself the challenge of spending 1 week on each lesson and doing nothing else until I just know anatomy by heart... it's been... interesting! On to the arms next!
Those overlays where I was tracing people's anatomy over a picture of someone in action are so difficult, you'd think that tracing would make it easier but muscles are weird man... but satisfaction is guaranteed once you're done with the studies!

[marco_blanco]

Ahaha! yeah man this has been a mood! I thought that other people in here could relate so this is really a classic inside joke! Tx for noticing! (and yeah, its a better looking version of me)

[marco_blanco]

Uno, Dos y Tres!
Its ARMS ARMS ARMS!
I've realized that by the end of these studies I ended up with so many references of buff dudes it would put some homo erotic collections to shame!

Despair no more, see the fruits of my labour below!

[HANDRO]

looks good man, I really like how your doing shadows too. when I went through this just focused on correct muscle location, and struggled with properly shading the skin above them.

[daxiangna]

Where is the arm lamp this time😂

[Vonschlippe]

Still the best anatomy practice sheet I've ever seen on this forum. Fantastic work!

[Julia_J]

These look so damn good, gonna "steal" this kind of practice from you, just so you know!! I am going for the full anatomy package atm.
Even better? The cat attack!

[marco_blanco]

that actually really helped me, because when drawing from models you cant see the defined muscles in most, but you can still tell the change in planes of the muscles, i think it unless we're always drawing very lean people it's probably a good idea too do some simplified versions like this. i wont know for sure until later when I look back at the studies

[marco_blanco]

The arm lamp was too powerful, it kept turning itself off, I instead went for a collection of muscular men on the walls of my conjugal bedroom, my wife was very happy with the decision

[marco_blanco]

You can't just go around complimenting people like that! My head won't fit through the door frame in a minute!
Thanks V! It's good to be noticed

[marco_blanco]

Please do! I went with a kind of 1-2-3 approach, first study the muscles, then overlay it over real people, then draw average looking people... turns out they are all vastly different xD the one that was unexpectedly difficult were the overlay's ! but most credit has to go to Marc, the course made it really clear for me.
Mention me when you do your studies, I'd love to see them.
now.. public service announcement.... don't use your pets as weights, even if your muscles look totally awesome when you lift them, also give them lots of food and toys, and boxes, tons of boxes... this announcement was definitely not influenced by any pets threatening my life

[marco_blanco]

well it's been a minute since my last post, I'm picking up the classes again, I've done a couple of works since then that I'm sharing, but still feel like i'm a 10th of the way to where I want to be, let's get back on the study horse

[matthewwemes]

Good stuff! the guy with the microphone looks very lifelike!

[Lockenheim]

Welcome back! Loving these gestures!

[mitsuki-youko]

Just discovered your blog/thread and wow your art is so good! your anatomy studies are amazing! can't wait to see your next post!