As it was a working day today I only had a few hours of drawing time after work. Today I tried my hands at something that I always before tried to avoid...Drawing the human body. I don't know if it is the face, the hands,the feet or something else that I manage to screw up and the supposed human ends up looking like a retarded gorilla or rat.
So the basics is to get the proportions right. The head is the key. Depending on the sources the length of an average human is 6-8 times the head. Supose that the length is 7 times the head, then the breakdown is:
-upper torso = 2 heads
-lower body/Hip = 1 head
-legs = 3 heads
-ankle and feet = 1 head
-Arms = 3,5 heads(the hand should end at the top of the thigh)
After looking at some videos where very serious dudes explains how to draw female bodies and breast I tried it myself. One pro tip to drawing women was to draw for the upper torso a bigger downward triangle and for the lower part a smaller triangle pointing up. My first problem was to draw women slim enough. My first drafts looked like men with boobs. After trimming away about 50% of arm width and shoulder size I got down to something resembling a woman.
I also played with hip and shoulder positions. The hip and shoulder on the same side usually moves in opposite directions e.g. left hip goes down then the left shoulder goes up. I marked the movement with some arrows in one of the pictures.
Here are my results for today. Better than I expected (regarding my trauma drawing humans) but there is much to work on, hands, feet, faces, arm length when not pointing directly downwards etc.
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