I'm not looking for a quick fix, I'm looking for a book similar to my "Anatomy for the Artist" book if anything, which shows lots of detailed drawings of muscle groups, the range of motion of various parts, and etc. It's basically a nice collection of the important things to study instead of aimless google image searching, ya dig? Unfortunately, it seems like I'm just going to have to go with image search or whatever I can actually see in life until I can unearth such a book.

Does anyone have any book suggestions (or advice) for drawing mechanical devices? It's one thing to draw from life and understand the shapes or physical patterns that animals generally take on from studying them, but mechanical things seem so much more complex, especially in the manner that they become different over time through discovery and innovation.

Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoy some of the humor produced on 4chan, but I prefer lurking and observing than actually taking part in the emulation of mass conformity. Not that I'm any less of a conformist, but, it's interesting to watch it. What confuses me the most is the promotion of groupthink. Why is a 'random' group of people sticking to a single pattern of thought? For example, bengoshia, you just stated that anonymous hates 'weeaboos.' The irony of this is the actual amount of anime nerds on these sites.

I mostly have a problem with the way this sort of thinking spills over into spots that it generally doesn't belong. I can have 'epic lulz' with friends that are in on it, but otherwise I think it's silly to bring it somewhere outside of 4chan, or 7chan, or whatever other one. They're mostly the same despite trying to state otherwise.

Requesting a possible topic split? Seems that this could become something of an interesting discussion on such a thing, not sure.

I think it's from a word filter where, when you would type "wapanese," you would get "weeaboo" instead. Not sure if it's directly inspired by that comic or not. The rules refer to some dorky set similar to Fight Club. Rules 1 & 2 being 'do not talk about /b/.' The weird part is that /b/ doesn't actually have rules, so it's interesting that people think user-created ones are supposed to be followed.

but oh snap, I guess I should brace for some sort of epic raid of some sort.

Also: /b/ refers to the 'random' image boards on the *chan sites.

bengoshia: Sorry for the off-topic post, but, really. 4chan exists on its own as its own thing for a reason. Why are you posting that sort of junk here?

On-topic: Why does the Pixel Art article link to eboy? I know it's technically pixel art, but it's hardly worth mention, especially considering the overall bland cookie-cutter style they're known for. Maybe I'm alone in this sort of opinion? I'm not a wiki guy, so maybe one of you could fix that up with some proper resource links.