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Submitted: August 28, 2012
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Quick Figure Drawing Tutorialby *Canadian-Rainwater

Digital Art / Drawings / People

I'll be honest, I rarely use the head-proportions technique because I'm already comfortable enough drawing various body types. However, I get asked plenty of times how to draw people, so I pulled out my notes from drawing class and got the OCs to volunteer.

If there's one thing that irritates me to no end it's people complaining that they can't use anatomy books because "they only teach you how to draw muscular people". News flash! Unless you've got some horrible disease we all have the same muscles!!

This is by no means perfect and dear god don't use my anatomy or my characters to practise - go out there and use real people! - but I hope it helps to some small degree.

Note: 7.5 heads does not equal 6'0"; it's a measure of proportions, not height, as the heads can be scaled or shrunk depending on the character.

--Sak
(PS: If you're looking for my anatomical sketches on arm and leg musculature search "Muscle Anatomy" in my gallery search bar.)
All characters © Myself, Shamine A. King

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~fuyu-oleander Mar 10, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

This is really neat.

I never thought of guys as having that inverted triangle thing going on. This is super helpful!

~JeremyB796 Feb 6, 2013

I tried this on one of my characters (originally in cartoon like proportions)

...It was weird looking...but strangely it looked somewhat okay...

I think I might merge this with what I currently use for proportions to make it easier...

~MammaWashu Feb 3, 2013

I could understand making Louis thin with a fem frame if he were shorter but making him so absurdly taller than James (or pretty much every character) seems way too drastic. He looks too stretched thin. I do love Louis but when I see him with more proportioned characters it feels like watching a stick figure trying to act with Disney movie ones. Your comics are great though.