ANIMAL ANATOMY COURSE: ANIMAL WISHLIST!

[Wanderlust]

Joe Weatherly’s animal anatomy course is awesome, but I’d love to see a few more animals added, since their anatomy is slightly varied from the ones included in the course. Namely bears and prey animals like squirrels, rats/mice, raccoons, etc. Because all of these animals stand on their hind legs regularly, it would be really helpful to see how their anatomy differs from animals who stay on all 4 appendages, and what muscles they use that help them to stand.

[Isabelle Driel]

Same here: chickens, sea life (octopus, crabs…), manatees, armadillos.

[Daniel Daigle]

Hi Isabelle, Have you seen Charles Hu’s new Dynamic Sketching course? He covers some a wide range of animals including octopus and crabs and fish. I believe Glenn Vilppu also draws chickens and goats.
Invertebrate anatomy would be interesting, It’s a whole other world. In this case I think artists mostly look at form since these animals don’t have the muscle-on-bone blue print. I find this stuff fascinating  🙂

[Daniel Daigle]

Hi Wanderlust, If I can give you a tip. Look at the pelvis of different animals. Especially dinosaurs. The shape of the blades of the pelvis act as a fulcrum and can tell you a lot about what movements an animal is capable of 🙂 Really good suggestion btw!

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