All language subtitles for 1. Proportions (Male)

Hey, everyone.

So in this video, I'm going to be showing guys how to draw a very simplified version of caution.

So I don't know if you guys remember, of course you guys do.

For those who are in my previous courses, I used to teach proportion based on the eight heads method

where I would put like it heads and then just like kind of graph them out.

But then I realized that that was really, really inconvenient, especially even for myself, for example,

like even I wouldn't really be honest.

Even I wouldn't really like to do that personally because I always go by I or kind of just by a different

method.

So in this case, when it comes to a proportional method to understanding how to do that, I would go

with the most simplest and easiest way possible, because none of the kind of ways of doing proportion

is exactly accurate.

So sometimes we'll just go with the most simple and effective way.

So let's get started on that.

So and this is also, once again based off of Will Westons method.

His he can explain away better than I can, to be honest, because he's been doing it for years.

But I'll just explain the best way as I can in the most effectively manner.

In the most effective way.

Yeah.

So anyways, let's go ahead and get started.

So what the method that I use nowadays, Wesson's method is a head and hand measurement, so it could

be drawn up from the top here.

So what I'm going to do here first and I'm going to draw a line now of course, I'm just going based

off of how long this video with is.

So that looks like it's about right.

So I think I'll just go ahead and do that.

So let's say, for example, I'm going to draw a line going straight down.

Of course, if you have a ruler that would be best to use, but just do the best you can and drawing

a straight line, you don't have to, though.

Just use it.

Rule if you want to.

Then we're going to divide this in half the best you can.

Half, half, half for equal parts.

Then one more.

One half.

And that's your head.

And then we have your eye line.

Let me go ahead and zoom in so you guys can see what we see here.

So let me go ahead and just zoom in right here some more.

I think that should be enough to zoom out later.

So when it comes to your I don't know if this is in focus, but when it comes to your island, your

islands around the center of your head and your nose is about halfway between the eye line and the chin,

and then from your hand sorry, from your from your getting ahead of myself and your nose to the top

of your head is one hand length.

So I'm going to just draw a little hand.

Right there, and this is the message that we're going to be using.

I'll make a cleaner version of this later so you guys can see.

Maybe I'll make a digital version so you guys can see a lot clearer on what I actually do.

So let's see, once we have our hand, then we're going to be using this hand as a measurement, so

we're going to be using heads, which is just to find the head here and we're going to be using hands

for most of the most of the rest of these things.

So let me just tell you what these measurements are.

This is the feet.

This is the I think the top of the patella or the kneecap.

This is the pelvis around there, and this is kind of like around your nipple area and this a guy,

by the way, so kind of just going to go by that.

So let me go ahead and scoot this over.

Let me see if I can zoom in for the top part of the chest.

Come on.

Zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom.

OK, let's do that for now.

So when it comes to hand heights, hand proportions we want to do is go one hand down.

Just approximately, by the way.

So one hand down from the nose is the pit of the neck, don't make it too long.

One hand down is about a sternum, which is the middle part of your ribcage, one hand to the side.

Make sure that the 90 degree angle, because this is a guy and usually, for instance, this is more

of a side note, but if you guys look at male and female skeleton, you can see the difference between

the between the rib cage.

So when it comes to the rib cage, if you look at a male skeleton, their skeletons are most of the

time a 90 degree.

And for girls, which are due in the next video, is more of a 60 degree.

So that can definitely help with differentiate between male and female bodies because that exists.

So and that will also help you communicate more in your design, because most of the most important

thing is, is to communicate well with the drawing.

So if people don't know who this character is, if they're a boy or girl and just made it very kind

of just unsure of your differences, people will be confused by your design.

So, I mean, that's happened to a lot of people before.

Sometimes I would have friends that would show me their drawings.

And I'm like, is this a guy or girl?

And then they'll say, it's a guy.

Then they'll say it's a guy, but it really looks feminine.

They're too feminine to look, to look androgynous.

So if you want to go between mix between a guy and a girl for a character necessary of that kind of

field, then go for more androgynous look, which is more of a either a male body that sort of has some

better features.

They go for more leaner type and not as much not as muscular.

And therefore the female androgynous type, they will go for more feminine.

They will start the feminine features, but they would have a bit more muscle or tone or probably a

flatter chest even so that something like that you guys can look at if you want to make your character

more androgynous, either on the male side or the female side.

But anyways, these are just more.

But I digress.

So anyways, let's go let's continue on.

So here is a rib cage.

So we go from the top of the base Werneck base of the neck and then just connect.

And then, as I mentioned before, this is where your pelvis is.

So we're going to be drawing a rectangle here.

And this is a very simplified way of how to kind of view how to divide your boxes and everything, so.

This actually might have been a bit too high.

Oh, as a matter sometimes it does happen to a super accurate.

So when I see the.

When I look at this, I think, OK, I'm going to divide these three, so I'm going to go ahead and

just make boxes as equal as I can.

So I'm going to split the two to three, so one, two.

Generally, of course, this doesn't have to be super accurate, but this is a good reference to use

that are going to divide this in half and divide this in half.

That was off screen.

Well, I think you guys saw that, so I just I just drew three boxes and then I just kind of divide

those in half.

Now, this is actually a little bit too stout.

So I'm going to actually make this just a little bit thinner.

Halfway between the last box, the red box is the pelvis.

This whole box here is the rib cage.

Then about halfway or a third of the a third of the first box is your neck and then the rest is your

head.

So let's see, kind of just another simplified rib cage here.

I'm going to go one third and then two thirds is the rest.

This is one half, this is one half, and then between these two is your squishy bit, which is your

obliques.

So by just doing this kind of measurement, that's basically what we're going to do here.

Just this is just a simplified version.

So anyways, here we have the box here.

Slice it in half.

Three finger gap, which is really important, this is basically the kind of like the separation between

your pelvis and the and your leg.

So if you for instance, if you lifted your leg up, you know, kind of like a 180 degree and put three

fingers on your hip, that's about a three that's three finger difference.

And that can really help with differentiating the distance between the two or the distance between,

like your leg and your pelvis.

So is your pelvis area.

Now, let's go ahead and just connect these two.

Now, let's draw in our clavicle, and generally the male clavicle is actually a lot more sharper and

angle, and this is also one hand with a part.

And then basically going downward is your arm.

I would say about around here is where your navel is, but it also kind of floating around there anyways.

So now let's go ahead and draw our kneecaps or our knees.

I'm going to zoom out just a little bit so you guys can see.

When it comes to the niqab, this is where at the top of the knee is, that's generally kind of like

a little trapezoid shape.

Here we have the this is going to be a great trochanter, which is the kind of leg that kind of pops

out and it just pops out just a little bit when it comes to guys there.

Trochanter is a lot shorter in distance, so it's a lot straighter looking when it comes to girls.

However, since girls are generally shorter for most, on average, their legs are going to be more

like like kind of wide, like a wider V shape, just because their hips, just because it kind of like

their hips also make their legs look kind of more angular like that.

And then down here we have the calf legs or the just the tibia.

Phoebe, I don't remember it is I don't remember what it is.

But anyways and then lastly, we have the feet.

So let's go ahead and look at this from a wider angle or from a more broader perspective, see what

this looks like as a whole.

And this is what it looks like.

Sorry about the sketchbook area here.

Yeah, that's basically what it looks like.

So now when it comes to the arms, that's going to be a lot simpler.

So take your navel and this is just kind of general rule.

Take your naval, swing it out on both sides.

Drop it down.

That's where your elbow is from, the pubic bone or the pelvis swinging out.

Would make it a little bit higher.

And that's where your hand is and your hand is generally around.

Hand is generally around the beginning of your leg, so, yeah, that is pretty much it.

Let me go ahead and walk in the rest of the muscles.

This is just going to be very, very brief.

It's not going to be too complicated.

So let's go ahead and add some muscle, shall we?

I'm only going to add it from the top up or something like that.

So here, let's go ahead and zoom in, zoom in and zoom out.

OK, let's go from the chest to abdominal area, because that's the easiest, I would say it's asymmetrical.

So from the pack, sorry, sorry, from the clavicle, could just draw a little line up here.

We can actually.

You know what?

Let me go ahead and actually just take this out here, because I want to use this for a demo.

I want to use this for our global resources.

I'm going to go ahead and do this again, so.

I'm going to divide I'm going to draw a just a three box method here, very, very simple one.

To this was a little bit I should have just done three boxes and try to make them as similar as possible.

Oh wow, this is close enough.

So let's say one, two, three.

This is kind of divided in half already.

Some just going to draw the three finger gap here, pelvis.

Second box here is ribcage.

In fact, it should be higher.

Well, not everything's perfect, but the check should be thinner, it's not all the way.

I think that's clear enough.

Let me go ahead and read some of this.

It's actually a little bit more clean.

So here we have the pelvis and the pelvis, the rib cage, which can just be simplified as like a little

nub or something.

And then around the same distance is the pelvis.

Now, this is just for the guys.

Usually the pelvis is not as wide as a girl's pelvis.

Obviously, the distance between the ratio, between the shoulders and the hips are different.

So when it comes to a guy, the shoulders are about the same length or a little bit longer than the

pelvis itself.

And for the girls, it's the opposite.

The pelvis or the hip area is larger than the shoulder area.

And that's quite true because when I compare with my husband, it's actually that way.

So and that's a general rule of thumb.

Of course, everything can be altered a little bit depending on your character design.

So let's go ahead and add some muscles to this.

We're going to just divide this in half real quick, just to have a sense of reference, let's add of

the clavicle.

So one hand length, one hand length and then underneath, let's go ahead and add some muscle.

So underneath the clavicle is your pecs and those are your chest muscles and those are your chest muscles.

Yeah.

So what you want is you want to divide these by half and just kind of divide it, you know, make it

symmetrical.

That's the best you can.

Then you have your wood muscles or kind of like one that kind of goes to the side and that's kind of

like your Saradha or a lot, but we're not going to draw that in detail here.

It's just a very simplified version, then we're going to draw the ribcage.

Here we have the obliques, which can just protrude out a little bit and rest on top of the pelvis.

Then we have the sheath and that is your abdominal muscles, and this kind of goes from the ribcage

down to the pubic bone.

This is your naval.

And if you want, you can add abs to it.

Usually I would just kind of separate these into three parts.

You know, one of the uppermost.

The second one just kind of groupism.

The third one kind of goes straight down.

That's more of an optional thing.

And that's pretty much it for the abdominal area or the chest abdomen area.

The rest is quite easy in itself.

So I think that will be it for this video.

Let me know what you guys think and I will see you guys in the next one by.