>>3459541Frazetta didn't use models. I don't know if he cheated on his wife, but that's one of the amazing things about him, he very rarely drew from models or reference. His years cartooning just gave him a solid understanding of the human form, and he'd just create from imagination - he'd sketch on the panel in browns first to establish the form, then refine it. That's why you study anatomy and gesture, so you build a vocabulary you can use later - his work wasn't accurate, in that every muscle and tendon was in the right place or the right size, but he understood the basic form and masses and how to show muscles under strain, or relaxed, and impart emotion through gesture intuitively by the time he started doing the oils for the book covers. He also understood how to exaggerate the form and the masses for dramatic effect, along with lighting. He didn't care if the muscles were accurate, he just wanted it to look good.
