My ape muscle studies. First drew the bigger shapes with marker and then went over with ink pen studying more closely the muscles. The ones in the bottom row of each page, as well as the pencil one, were done out of my head.

Another study of the muscles over the skeleton in different poses.

As suggested i continued to study the muscles, and think im improving and am starting to remember more when drawing from imagination. Though i still need a bit more study, i still struggle a bit with the forearm groups, and with some more uncommon angles. I found it helpful to consider the perspective a bit, because that way i had to know the exact locations of the muscles. Will continue to study but thought id post my recent drawings. Feedback is always very welcome.

As suggested I drew from my imagination to test my knowledge. I myself see the improvement since the beginning of the course, so it is SO motivating. A BIG thank you to you and the Proko team. Now I will continue to practice!

this was really tough for me Ill be honest, I find a lot of difficulty in giving the forms volume and I still don't really know how to do so while keeping the gesture and rhythm intact. Also I probably need to watch more videos on Apes to see how they naturally move and how their body naturally flows as it does to create more natural gestures. The gestures I drew here feel a bit "off" and stiff. Overall, a pretty fun experience still thanks @David Colman for saying "There's no such thing as failure if you learn from it" it made me a lot more happy while working.

Study and sketches of the muscles. Tried some learning the tools in digital. That's why it is shaky. I tried to apply muscles over studies of the skeleton too. Will practice from imagination now. Till next time, enjoy the path of learning everybody!!!

First using the Écorché to understand the forms and differences with human anatomy. Then did some sketchs from imagination

Chimpanzee arm muscles from memory. Continued practice.

beginner starting with anatomy fun :) lots of wrongs which is hard for me to leave but its so much easier to focus on understanding and stuyding when you dont try to produce something on point

Here is my assignment. I tried to make it loose while maintaining the muscle placement, however it kind of feels stiff at times. Definitely would take more time studying this section. My take of doing these starts from gesture, overall form, then placement of the muscles objectively.

Some gorilla sketches. Some are from the model and some are from imagination.

My assignment for the Muscle Breakdown. I had a bit of a struggle coming up with interesting poses to use with this lesson. So I went off and searched for some references; and while I could find a lot of pretty photos, not many of them were very energetic. Videos on the other hand seems more interesting for this case! Especially wild life documentaries.

Tried to be conscious from the last critique and not get too detailed. A lot of the flows between muscles became more apparent the more I drew.

I’m trying figure out how to draw the skulls with open mouth from imagination, with is much harder than I thought. This is studies from imagination and reference.

Here are some of my muscle studies. I started by going through the major parts first. Torso with back, than arms and than legs. I have spent the longest time on trying to figure out the forearm muscles, because where as i already did some study on most of the other muscles on humans i never really practiced the fore arm, and because i feel its the hardest part. I think i improved but i have to do a lot more forearm studies to really feel comfortable with them. Generally i tried to focus on the volumes of the muscles, and on staying loose and finding rhythms. I think that i managed to be more loose and to improve my understanding of their volumes. I did find some rhythms but i still feel a bit of struggle with those, so i think i might to focus on them more in future studies. On the last two pages i tried some full body poses from imagination. I have received some great suggestions on how to improve my poses when i posted some skeleton poses, and im trying to think about them as much as possible. Im a bit uncertain on what things i should focus on in my next studies, so any feedback would be very welcome.

Ape muscles (and some skulls). I was recently recommended to not skip the major forms stage, before thinking about anatomy, which I've been doing. I feel like that advice has improved my work a lot, and has fixed an issue that I've been trying to solve; my sketches have often felt disjointed and unclear. I'm really happy with many of these! The process: gesture, major forms, then anatomy. I walked around in my room trying to match the pose of the chimpanzee model. Really fun (and useful). Aaaaaiaiaaaaaiaiaa!

Here are some Chimp studies, mostly. The front one is a Gorilla. I used photos and 3D skeleton model for references

studies of the chimpanzee model

Additional muscle studies from reference