Bammes does not just show you a muscle; he shows you what happens when that muscle contracts.
Take newsprint and charcoal. For three days, only draw the human figure as stacked boxes and cylinders. Do not look at the skin. Look at the "inside." complete guide to life drawing gottfried bammes pdf download
Bammes was a professor at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts in East Germany. His method dissects the human body into geometric building blocks (cubes, cylinders, spheres) and then explains how muscles and skin wrap around these volumes. If you want to draw a realistic elbow, knee, or ribcage from any angle without a model in front of you, Bammes is your solution. Bammes does not just show you a muscle;