The Human Form

I need to find a way to make the human form more interesting for me to learn. Animals, especially the mammalian kind, have always fascinated me, and drawing them has always been fun and for the most part easy. Drawing the human form is like pulling teeth! I don’t know what it is. I have anatomy books, tons of reference photos saved on my hard drive, but when I sit down to really study and practice drawing the form, I just go blank. My hand stiffens up. My eyes glaze over. I mean, I can draw the human form *ok*, but it just doesn’t *feel* right. It doesn’t have the substance that I see in some other artist’s galleries. I know I could be really good at it, if I can just find some way to make it more interesting for me.

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