Abdomination: How to draw beef by Coelasquid

Best abs tutorial ever!

Awesome tutorial! I remember seeing it a long time ago and now that I'm studying the torso again this is one of the most helpful tutorials I've seen

Awesome tutorial! I remember seeing it a long time ago and now that I'm studying the torso again this is one of the most helpful tutorials I've seen

Really interesting. There's so much to learn about anatomy!

your link isn't working for "this other anatomy tutorial" Just thought you should know. Iwas looking forward to viewing it

Thought I had this saved, but evidently I hadn't yet...
'd for future reference.

Thank you for posting this. I have been trying to do pictures of people who have work type muscles, y'know like the strongmen type. But I never could think of the right term for it and now I do! I'm doing like a merge of two different people, gemsonas like in Steven Universe, one is a slim build and the other is the Mr Universe type build and when they merge they become the Strongmen body type.

None of the muscly men pics i looked at were what i was looking for but that was because i didn't know it was the Strongman type that i needed to search for! So again, thank you so much for posting this!

this is really good

Thank you for this <3

I can not express how thankfull I am for this fine piece of information and advice, you saved my male characters to end up with serious anatomy problems XD
Thank you so much for doing this!!

Excellent rundown!  I also love how you give a bunch of real-life examples to study.

I didn't know that bodybuilders dehydrate themselves before competition to look more defined.  The things we do for shows, huh?

Oh god you have no idea how helpful this is. There's been a character I've been reinventing like crazy and I've been strugglnig major to draw someone who LOOKS fit and strong. I mainly do the more wiry runner-type fit male characters, but it's like... one or two are more like bear wrestler type strong, and just...

Thank you so much, now I can finally draw or get started learning how to draw this guy

Thank you! 😙

Thank yooooou

Got one for boobs?

Omfg this title got me rolling~   X3

really useful! thank u so so much <3

yay, thank for this!

just a bit late for comment ops but this is still one of the best tutorials on how to do dem beefs I've ever seen. It's very common to function-muscle (?) guys to be left out of anatomy tutorials, they are my favourites to draw/appreciate ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ 

I'm a competitive power lifter and former soldier. It's nice to have an artists reference that actually reflects the way I am built. 

Great Tutorial! 

Nice references on this! Good point also is how not everybody has the same bodytype: "same-bodying is just as bad as same-facing" (also my pet peeve in superhero comics haha). I especially need to remember that one. 

I'm sure to study this when I have more time!

Also it's good to note abs can in fact be a bit wonky. By which I mean they don't always sit at the same level. For example, look at Michael Phelps. His abs are offset I bit higher or lower on either side, but they seem to function just fine for him.

lol the muscle between yours ribs is usually called the skirt meat*snicker* it kinda takes away from the MANLINESS of it all

Do one for women!

Im so grateful for this cus ive been searching high and low for a good tutorial on drawing the abdomen and this is exactly what i needed! 

this is SUPER helpful thank you so much!! also i saw a thing going around on tumblr and it was a really shitty quality crop of your thing (and it had a 9gag thing on it, what a surprise,) i put credit to you on there but i doubt anyone will see since 20+ thousand people have already seen it ; ;''
you really deserve credit for this, this is fantastic!!!!!

I saw a crop of this on fb. I posted a link back here so you has credit and maybe so people will look at the whole thing instead of just the form vs function. 

part of this found it's way to facebook
saying things like "the guy who made this (they just croped the form vs function out) dosen't know anything about body building" or "this must of been drawn by somebody who is fat"

This is one of the most helpful things I've seen, thank you ^^! 

THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR THIS

JUST WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR
//sobbing
thanks so much

I know this sound complacent, but I really wish this came with a leg half to it/

Wow, Ive been doing this wrong then. I now love you

Luved it!!!

awesome tutorial! thank the love of manliness you exist!

Thank you, TV Tropes. Muscles AREN'T Meaningless!

Finally a helpful tutorial that I can understand.

I LOVE THIS DRAWING so much since Im a fitness freak. Absolutely phenomenal

BEEFCAKE TUTORIAL YOU WONDERFUL HUMAN BEING THANK YOU THANK YOU ALL THE GRATITUDE I CAN FIND IS FLYING TOWARDS YOU

This is very helpful! Thank you! ^^

Thank so much for this.

Thank you for posting this I found it enlightening.

It's one of the most helpfull tutorials I know, thanks :-D

very nice info

...For the love of god. Thanks for this!