Best anatomy charts I've seen in years

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OK, this one is probably the best source I've seen in a while: www.innerbody.com/anatomy/musc…

There you'll find a lot of anatomy charts for all systems. Also, each body part is highlighted on a fully detailed chart, with models for both male and female body types; and even comparative options for internal sections not normally seen by external angles.

The best way to take advantage of this is to use this charts comparing them with pictures of people and models posing. In some of my older journals there are links to reference poses made by fellow deviants which you can use.

Also, it's important to notice that the human body is not like a doll (or action-figure for that matter), so you must be aware the position of many muscles will change considerably. To be more precise, if you pretend to do breaks, and you don't fully understand how does these body parts works, you'll commit a lot of mistakes by acting withouth a solid based. Even more precise, the Humerus (the bone of the forearm) is not paralel to the torso, but diagonally connected to the edge of the scapula. And it doesn't act the same a moving a joint in a doll. This includes your over-priced anime figure with its 16 (or 6000) joints. Period.
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Thanks for the link! I've been looking this kind of thing for a while.

For realistic figures in motion I highly recommend Burne Hogarth (especially Dynamic Figure Drawing). That book's been a revelation.

Your comment about overpriced anime figures gave me my laugh for this evening. It seems too many people use them for reference these days.