>>4388765>shave timeNo, but that's because it's widely recognized in academic drawing/painting/sculpting circles as the ONLY way to learn anatomy. Any training less than complete ecorche is incomplete or shorthand. A proper ecorche will take multiple hundreds of hours, so you're not really reducing time spent. However, if you were to spend those same hundreds of hours studying illustrations, you wouldn't get as far. Hence, that approach would be a waste of time and if you really want to KNOW anatomy, you gotta just do a damn ecorche.
That said, if you just wanna to some high-level amateur work or professional but highly stylized work, you can easily get by without it; you just will need to rely on some degree of reference material forever and expect to make some mistakes invisible to laymen.
If you wanna be will weston tier at inventing figures from imagination though, gotta do a couple full, accurate ecorches.
