Free Download: Anatomical Guide to Human Musculature for Drawing

This anatomical drawing guide, created by Leonardo Gauna, uses some of his favorite illustrations to show the human musculature

As an illustrator, an extensive study of the human figure makes your works enrich and gain in realism and naturalness. To make good illustrations it is not essential to make exact reproductions of reality or the human body, but knowing the specific proportions of things will allow you to work with a greater knowledge of how forms work and obtain better results.

To facilitate this task, the Argentine illustrator Leonardo Gauna (@capocosmico) has made a complete anatomical guide of human musculature for drawing that you can download and use as a reference.

Gauna used some of his favorite illustrations, with naked women as protagonists, to mark the different parts of the human musculature and the way in which they position and react based on the poses that the models adopt.

Marking with different colors each of the important parts of the human anatomy for the drawing and using a small legend in which the name of each muscle is mentioned, gives us an approximation of in what position, with what inclination and in what exact way we should draw each part of the body correctly.

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