Ask Your Elders: How Can I Be Better At Art?

I think it's important to understand the bones, understand the muscles. All the parts of the body that are hardest to portray for me (and I suspect others) have parts that fit and move together unintuitively or are shaped oddly. Shoulders and hips and hands and feet are all weird, weird shapes and weird joints. It's hard to consider all the shapes they make and recreate them without a good, intuitive grasp of their form.

Again, for me. Any improvement I've made has come from better grokking the internal structures of the human form.