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All right.

In this lecture we're gonna be learning about the basic body proportions so we're not going to get into

all the nitty gritty but we're gonna look at the overall body structure so everything from the arms

in the legs and head we're gonna break it down so that we can have an understanding of what the proportions

should be.

And I'm going to teach you how I think about it so I can quickly gauge whether my character is drawn

in the correct proportion or if I want to change those proportions.

I know what I'm basing it off of.

So first I like to think of a person as the top and the bottom.

So where are their feet.

And where's the top of their head.

So go ahead and work that out.

So it's pretty obvious it's just a line up there and a line down there.

Now typically the person is going to be about eight heads tall and some of you might already know that.

And so you could basically take this head and go down about eight times.

Somewhere around there but I don't really like to think of my body drawings like that because sometimes

their pose is completely different and you can't really measure them out and heads.

And plus it's just too much work and it takes too much time to measure Malin heads.

So I like to break it down into kind of simpler ways and especially because we're doing character designs

we don't need the proportions to look perfect.

We just wanted to look pretty close.

So what I like to do first is I'd like to break my person down in half.

So when we divide this space in half typically the crotch is basically going to land right in the halfway

mark.

So if I go ahead and draw a line like this

this is gonna be my halfway mark.

So the crotch

is at the halfway mark

right.

So it may not be perfectly divided in half but it's gonna be pretty close.

You can see if I mark this out with my pencil and I move it up to there it's pretty close.

Might be off just a little bit.

I think I drew the crotch a little bit too low but that's okay.

But generally you want to think of the crotch as the middle area of your form.

Next what I'd like to do is I'd like to break it down into quarters so the knees are gonna land on the

quarter mark.

So if I go out and draw a line right through here and generally it's gonna be on the bottom side of

the kneecap.

SO THE KNEES

ARE GONNA BE AT THE QUARTER Mark

all right.

Next I'd like to go ahead and mark out where the belly button is to the belly button is typically gonna

be about a third of the way down from the top of the head.

So if we were to break this person up in two separate parts we could go ahead and mark a line there

for the belly button.

And so from there to there is gonna be about a third.

Sometimes it'll actually be a little bit lower than a third.

So in this case it's actually a little bit lower than a third.

But if you could break this space up into thirds it's gonna be around the third mark it'll be at the

third mark or it'll be a little bit lower than third mark

so we'll go ahead Mark this out

and we'll put about one third of the way down.

It's important to remember that this is just a guide.

So everybody is completely different and different bodies have different proportions.

This is just a general guideline for an average male body.

And we'll talk a little bit about the female body after we go through this but they're gonna be generally

pretty similar.

All right.

So next let's go ahead and let's talk about the chest.

So the bottom of the chest is going to be about a little bit past a head down from the head.

So this is a case where I do actually like to use a head.

So if we were to take a head like this and work it out it's gonna be a little bit pass ahead.

So about there sometimes it'll be about a head so you can just imagine that the bottom of the chest

right here is going to be about a head maybe a little bit more than a head down from the chin

so bottom of chest

it's going to be about one head down

and that's going to be from the bottom of the chin.

So go ahead draw a line out like this and just kind of show what I'm referring to.

All right.

Next let's go ahead and let's talk about the arms so the arms if I go ahead and I draw a line like this

an airline just kind of show what I'm talking about the bottom of the arm right here.

Typically is going to be a little bit or the hand I guess you would say it's going to be slightly past

the crotch.

Go ahead and mark this out by calling it hand so the hand is gonna be slightly past the crotch.

So that's how long you know to make your arms.

Now let's go ahead and let's break the arm down into its different sections.

So typically from about the shoulder about the midpoint of the shoulder to the elbow and from the elbow

to the wrist I usually like to think about that as being equal.

So once you draw your hand in and we'll talk more about the proportion of the hands later.

But once you have your hands in whatever space you have left between your wrist and the shoulder you're

basically going to divide that in half and one half is going to be allocated to this part of the shoulder

and the bicep and then the rest of it is going to be allocated to the tricep.

So you want to think of these two parts as being equal to each other.

So those are the same distance and again this will change from person to person but this is just a good

rule of thumb.

This is how I like to think about it.

All right.

So that basically covers everything on the last thing actually that I want to go over is the head and

the shoulders.

So typically you don't want your shoulders to be any wider than three heads wide.

So what I mean by this is if you take the width of the head like this and you move it over like that

do another one over here you can see that this form is about three heads wide on the shoulders.

If his arm was down all the way I would line up a little bit better but you can see that it's about

three heads wide.

So typically you don't ever want your shoulders to be any wider than three heads wide if you're trying

to draw somebody with correct proportions.

Now like I said earlier we can always change the proportions so sometimes you might want to draw somebody

with three heads wide because that will make the character look more exaggerated and interesting but

just for your understanding of the realistic human proportions we never want to make them bigger than

three heads wide.

And if you're doing a female typically the shoulders are gonna be a little bit more narrow so you might

be more like two and a half heads or something like that.

And if you're doing a female character in some cases maybe you'd even want to just make it to heads

y to make it their shoulders very narrow and exaggerated.

Some other things to point out about female proportions is that the female is going to tend to be a

little bit shorter obviously so if you draw a female over here the proportions are just kind of get

shrunk down.

Another thing to take note of is the basic shape of the chest and torso area of a male and a female.

So with a male you typically want to think of them as getting larger up towards the shoulders and more

narrowed down in the waist area.

So their general shape is going to be like this going down into their waist area so their shoulders

will be more broad

and then for female it's going to be basically flipped.

So it's pretty simple to think about you just always want to remember that males are broader in the

shoulders and smaller in the waist or smaller in the hips I should say not in the ways but in the hips

and females are the opposite.

So typically their shoulders are gonna be more narrow and less broad and as you get down into the hips

they're going to get wider like that and as we learn more about the proportions and the forms of the

human you're going to see more what I'm talking about.

But that's an important thing to remember is like their head would be up here and their neck and for

male their head would be up here as well their neck.

But what this is going to do is typically it's going to make a more masculine type of shape and form

when you do it this way for the male and a little bit more of a feminine softer morph.

I guess you could say fragile look and again this can change from character to character from person

to person but in general this is what it's gonna be like.

All right.

Thanks for watching this lecture.

And by the way just so you know you can download this and the resources of this lecture so you can have

this as a reference and I apologize for any bad spelling.

I'm not the best speller but I do my best.

I'll see you guys in the next lecture.