Something not bondage related, how can it be! So I was asked to help with drawing anatomy and I gave my suggestions and I drew this to give an idea of what I do. I thought it be helpful. Well quite a few other people have said they like my anatomy and such too, so I thought it might help other people to see how exactly I do that. Might be interesting. I'll explain the basic concept.

Basically my method is about learning why something looks the way it does, not just copying it. If you ask art teachers and professional artists how to draw (insert thing here), they will likely say to get a reference and draw it a lot. My issue with that is you don’t actually learn how to draw anything that way, at least I don’t. For me, it be kind of like this:
Say you want to learn how to multiply. Your teacher says to learn the multiplication chart. So you look at the table, it’s the ones with a vertical and horizontal row that show multiplication up to 12. and just memorize that. You don’t actually learn how to multiply, you just memorize it. So when you’re asked about a multiplication problem that wasn’t on the list, you will have no idea or only have a general idea. Plus you won’t necessarily memorize the entire table, so you might not be able to answer a question that was on the table either. However if you learn how multiplication actually works, then you’ll understand why the table says what it says. Don’t memorize that multiplication with a five always ends in a 0 or 5, learn why it always ends in a 5 or 0.

My method is basically the artistic equivalent to that. I don’t find a reference of a Fox only, I also get a picture of it’s skeleton too. The reason for this is to learn why it looks the way it does. For instance, if I draw a Fox’s hind leg, one detail on the ankle where the lower leg and ankle meet, there’s a bulge and a hook joint. If draw it without the skeleton, I’ll just draw what I see there but I won’t really learn why it looks like that. That opens the door to forgetting that detail when not using the reference and I will likely draw it wrong if I try to pose the fox’s leg in a different way in future pictures or pictures without the reference. The skeleton comparison helps cure that. I draw the bulge and hook joint then look at the skeleton and see why it has that. The key is not memorizing that detail, it’s actually learning about that detail. How it is supposed to look AND WHY it looks like that.

You might also notice that the Fox in my drawing is facing to the left of the page, while the references are facing to the right. I did that on purpose and I highly encourage that too. When you draw it facing the same way, you find yourself just copying the reference. Once again, that isn’t learning anything, it’s really no better than tracing then. If you draw them facing the other way, you’ll start putting an effort to make it look the same, noticing things more.

That’s pretty much it, not much else to say. Hope this makes since and maybe helps some of you out and if doesn’t, well hopefully you at least found it interesting.