I like Harry Partridge
IMHO you should just get relative sizes and positions right. Drawing dots on a sphere and putting them in the right place in 2-D as the turn the sphere isn’t even an anatomy thing. Drawing eyes…I mean, they are just circles behind slits.
Cartoon humans are easy because they are just funny shaped geometrical objects, like
this .
There are so many tutorials on Google it’s really just a matter of what style you want to draw. (Anime-ish, Barbie girls, realistic, funny/idealized-realistic, etc.)
I mean, you just learn to draw a box with a sphere on top, and four pairs of other cuboids joined together hanging from it. Then you learn how to draw this from different angles. And then you learn about the general shape of the body, where it gets wider and thinner, and adjust the basics accordingly. Adjust based on the character’s gender, age, and the sort of looks and personality you want to convey. The
basic ratios of the body are well known and any search for “human parameters” will net plenty of
good hits .
And once you learnt how to get general shapes and 3-D right, and then learn how to get shapes right, then you start with anatomy more n depth. It helps to go one step at a time, like, you can devote a lot of time to eyes first and the face in general (that’s the best start), then you can devote a bunch of time to drawing hunks and babes to get the chest muscles right, or the hand or the foot to get those right.
TO me it’s always more about the shapes and the general effect. Like, if you want fat, then of course
every part of the body will look fat and get this sort of swollen quality and be rounder. If you want sleek and sharp, then everything looks longer, sharper, pointier.
There really are too many good tutorials. Here,
this for example explains well how wide hips are more feminine. Doesn’t explain narrower waists having the same effect tho (though it’s in the same drawing…) But it’s pretty easy to do a search for “male female face difference” or body difference for example and plenty of good resources are there.
(Off-topic: why isn’t your artist tag “artist:luna the great” with “artist:queen luna” aliased to it through the Tag Aliases thread? The hash prevents that you can be searched by name.)