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General | Posted 4 years agoThis has been on my mind a lot lately and I wanted to get these ideas down on paper so I could think about them more clearly. I’m not sure if this will be the least bit helpful to anyone reading this. I’m very much still learning myself so take everything I say with a massive grain of salt!
I used to be very into different types of competitive memorization. Stuff like memorizing the order of a shuffled deck of cards, memorizing the first 1,000 digits of pi and my personal favorite witch was solving Rubik’s cubes blindfolded. When I first saw people doing these things on the internet my first reaction was something like “They must have some kind of photographic memory! My memory sucks and I could never do any of that in a million years”. But after doing some research I realized that not only did these people not have exceptional memories, but the methods they used to achieve these impressive feats were actually quite simple and easy to learn. The methods exploit how the brain processes information to make memorization much easier. After learning them I could memorize a deck of cards in under 10 minutes and solve Rubik's cubes blindfolded in under 90 seconds. Most of these methods (like Roman rooms) are not useful in learning things like anatomy. But two of the basic principles of memorization used in competitive memorization are very useful for learning things like anatomy. These are what I will be discussing here.
The first principle boils down to something like “Make it memorable”. That might seem like an obvious statement so what exactly do I mean by that? And how do you make boring shit like studying anatomy more memorable? Well to start off with we need to know a little bit about how our brains decide what to remember and what to tune out and forget. Mundane unimportant things like what you had for breakfast 56 days ago are completely forgotten over time. That bit of information never left enough of an impact on your mind to warrant it becoming a long term memory. But if that particular breakfast led directly to you getting food poisoning you will be able to recall exactly what you ate for years to come. The idea is the more something impacts you in some way ( it’s interesting, moving, shocking, panful, funny etc.) the more likely you are to remember that thing in the future.
Let's look at an example. You sit down to study leg anatomy and you're half asleep, uninterested and just going through the motions by copying the drawings in the anatomy book you are studying. You really want to draw characters well and you know you have to study anatomy, but it’s just so fucking dull. As a result the information you are taking in is not having much of an impact on your mind. Boring things are generally not important in day to day life, and unimportant things are generally forgotten with time. I've been in that exact position (hell I still find myself in that position sometimes!) and I’m sure you have as well.
So how do we make studying anatomy more memorable and make it have more of an impact? Well that is going to vary from person to person and you will have to experiment for yourself. But here are some things that have helped me.
Learning the names of the muscles - they are not needed for drawing but they really help with being able to talk about anatomy and that helps them have more of a mental impact.
Cross referencing multiple different sources - checking to see how different art teachers handle each muscle group can make the process more interesting and engaging
Comparing what I’m learning to art that I like - carefully going through and seeing how different artists I like handle a particular bit of anatomy while I’m studying it. This really helps keep the endgame of all this practice in view and drives home the importance of what I’m studying.
There is a lot more I do to make it memorable but you get the idea. Does doing all this make studying anatomy super fun and interesting? Well maybe a little, but not too much. It does however make it a lot more memorable and that helps my studying sessions have a lot more impact.
The second principle is “Repetition”. Now I know this might seem incredibly obvious, but many art students massively underestimate just how important this point is. No one ever learns anatomy after going through all the muscle groups for the first time. Anyone who insists they learned it all in one go either suck at anatomy or are lying to make themselves seem smart. But why am I stressing this point? It’s because underestimating the importance of repetition can lead to you thinking you are failing when in reality you are doing exactly what you should be doing.
You’re all motivated and inspired to sit down and study anatomy, so you spend a few hours learning leg anatomy. You're fully engaged and doing things to make the information as memorable as possible. After the session is over you put down your pen and take some well earned rest. About a week later you sit down to draw some figures only to realize that you can’t draw a decent leg to save your life. All that you learned studying last week seems to be completely gone and you can’t draw even slightly better than before. You might become frustrated and give up on studying for a while, or you think what you’re doing is just not working so you try something else, or maybe you think that you are just not talented and never going to be able to get it right. But in reality you have not failed or done anything wrong at all. It is perfectly normal and expected that you forget almost everything after the first few times you sit down to study anatomy. It takes going over a muscle group many many times before it all starts to set in and you can start drawing it well in your figures. So next time you learn some anatomy try to keep this principle in mind before starting to beat yourself up over a perceived lack of progress.
I could go on all day but this thing is already getting way too long. For those who made it to the end, thanks for reading and I’d love to hear your thoughts on the subject!
I used to be very into different types of competitive memorization. Stuff like memorizing the order of a shuffled deck of cards, memorizing the first 1,000 digits of pi and my personal favorite witch was solving Rubik’s cubes blindfolded. When I first saw people doing these things on the internet my first reaction was something like “They must have some kind of photographic memory! My memory sucks and I could never do any of that in a million years”. But after doing some research I realized that not only did these people not have exceptional memories, but the methods they used to achieve these impressive feats were actually quite simple and easy to learn. The methods exploit how the brain processes information to make memorization much easier. After learning them I could memorize a deck of cards in under 10 minutes and solve Rubik's cubes blindfolded in under 90 seconds. Most of these methods (like Roman rooms) are not useful in learning things like anatomy. But two of the basic principles of memorization used in competitive memorization are very useful for learning things like anatomy. These are what I will be discussing here.
The first principle boils down to something like “Make it memorable”. That might seem like an obvious statement so what exactly do I mean by that? And how do you make boring shit like studying anatomy more memorable? Well to start off with we need to know a little bit about how our brains decide what to remember and what to tune out and forget. Mundane unimportant things like what you had for breakfast 56 days ago are completely forgotten over time. That bit of information never left enough of an impact on your mind to warrant it becoming a long term memory. But if that particular breakfast led directly to you getting food poisoning you will be able to recall exactly what you ate for years to come. The idea is the more something impacts you in some way ( it’s interesting, moving, shocking, panful, funny etc.) the more likely you are to remember that thing in the future.
Let's look at an example. You sit down to study leg anatomy and you're half asleep, uninterested and just going through the motions by copying the drawings in the anatomy book you are studying. You really want to draw characters well and you know you have to study anatomy, but it’s just so fucking dull. As a result the information you are taking in is not having much of an impact on your mind. Boring things are generally not important in day to day life, and unimportant things are generally forgotten with time. I've been in that exact position (hell I still find myself in that position sometimes!) and I’m sure you have as well.
So how do we make studying anatomy more memorable and make it have more of an impact? Well that is going to vary from person to person and you will have to experiment for yourself. But here are some things that have helped me.
Learning the names of the muscles - they are not needed for drawing but they really help with being able to talk about anatomy and that helps them have more of a mental impact.
Cross referencing multiple different sources - checking to see how different art teachers handle each muscle group can make the process more interesting and engaging
Comparing what I’m learning to art that I like - carefully going through and seeing how different artists I like handle a particular bit of anatomy while I’m studying it. This really helps keep the endgame of all this practice in view and drives home the importance of what I’m studying.
There is a lot more I do to make it memorable but you get the idea. Does doing all this make studying anatomy super fun and interesting? Well maybe a little, but not too much. It does however make it a lot more memorable and that helps my studying sessions have a lot more impact.
The second principle is “Repetition”. Now I know this might seem incredibly obvious, but many art students massively underestimate just how important this point is. No one ever learns anatomy after going through all the muscle groups for the first time. Anyone who insists they learned it all in one go either suck at anatomy or are lying to make themselves seem smart. But why am I stressing this point? It’s because underestimating the importance of repetition can lead to you thinking you are failing when in reality you are doing exactly what you should be doing.
You’re all motivated and inspired to sit down and study anatomy, so you spend a few hours learning leg anatomy. You're fully engaged and doing things to make the information as memorable as possible. After the session is over you put down your pen and take some well earned rest. About a week later you sit down to draw some figures only to realize that you can’t draw a decent leg to save your life. All that you learned studying last week seems to be completely gone and you can’t draw even slightly better than before. You might become frustrated and give up on studying for a while, or you think what you’re doing is just not working so you try something else, or maybe you think that you are just not talented and never going to be able to get it right. But in reality you have not failed or done anything wrong at all. It is perfectly normal and expected that you forget almost everything after the first few times you sit down to study anatomy. It takes going over a muscle group many many times before it all starts to set in and you can start drawing it well in your figures. So next time you learn some anatomy try to keep this principle in mind before starting to beat yourself up over a perceived lack of progress.
I could go on all day but this thing is already getting way too long. For those who made it to the end, thanks for reading and I’d love to hear your thoughts on the subject!
