There may be many people who have such a problem that "the painting will make the body unbalanced for some reason". This time, I tried to summarize the points that should be conscious in order to be able to draw the body well. Use this article as a reference and repeat your practice.
How to draw a well-balanced body?
There is an order in how to draw a well-balanced body. First, decide how many heads you want, and then align the body parts and limb sizes to create a well-balanced body.
Decide how many part of bodies to draw
When drawing the body, first set the number of heads and bodies to be drawn, with the elbows in 1/2 place from the side to the crotch and the knee in 1/2 place from the crotch to the foot. Take
At this time, if the width of the head is 1, the overall balance will be improved by making the shoulder width 2 times. Since women have narrower shoulders than men, draw around 1.7-1.8.
Although preparations have been made so far, if you take care while being conscious of the structure of your body, the points that need to be corrected later will decrease and work efficiency will increase.
Decide the size of the body and limb parts
Once you have a rough fit, decide on the size of your body and limb parts. Males and females differ in terms of muscle strength, presence / absence of chest / constriction, and shoulder width.
First of all, let's draw each part while paying attention to the difference in structure between male and female bodies.
- Muscle condition
- Presence or absence of breast
- Constriction
- Neck thickness
- Butt bulge
- Shoulder width
While thinking about which gender you are drawing, we will add an auxiliary line to Gesture while considering the structure of the body, and trim unnecessary parts to prepare the structure of the body.
If you work so far, you will have a balanced body.
How to draw a picture with a slanted body
Once you understand the tricks of drawing the frontal body well, let's try the slanted body next time.
Although it is quite difficult for beginners, if you can understand the points of drawing each part in a polygon and drawing it in three dimensions and then trimming the corners, you will be able to draw immediately.
Draw a three-dimensional drawing of each part as a polygon
First of all, let's draw a polygon after roughly taking Atari into a human figure.
Divide the body into 12 parts: legs, calves, thighs, waist, abdomen, chest, head, upper arm, shoulder to elbow, elbow to wrist, palm, and fingers.
Move the parts you want to turn diagonally while imagining your body movement. The point to be aware of is to move the parts as a single piece. If you move only a part of the part here, be careful because the polygon will be ugly.
Sharpen and adjust the corner of a three-dimensionally drawn part
If you can express your body movement well, let's take the corners of the polygon and make it round like a human.
If even polygons are drawn well, it should be a relatively easy task of just taking corners. Let's focus first on neatly arranging the structure with polygons.
To express a girl's body well
For those who say “While drawing a woman, it will become masculine for some reason”, I will introduce a point that looks feminine and a good way to draw a chest.
First of all, let's review the part that shows the difference in the structure of men and women.
- Muscle condition
- Presence or absence of breast
- Constriction
- Neck thickness
- Butt bulge
- Shoulder width
Compared with men, women's bodies are rounded and there are also chests, so the finish of the body changes depending on how to cut and add from the polygon.
Draw a little narrow shoulder width
The first important point to clarify the difference between men and women is shoulder width. The shoulder width is about 0.7 to 0.8 for men compared to 1 for men.
When you are able to draw with this shoulder width difference in mind, you will end up with a picture that will tell you whether you are male or female at first glance.
In addition, men have a rectangular waistline and are almost straight, while women have a constriction and a chest, with many rounded curves.
Balance with the height of your chest in mind
Next, I will introduce how to draw a female breast. Since female breasts tend to look strange when drawn by beginners, here are some ratios to keep.
When drawing a woman's breast, draw a circle in the middle of the collarbone and elbow. The size is free, but if you keep the golden ratio of “clavicle to chest: elbow to chest = 1: 1”, you will be able to draw the chest without breaking the balance of the whole body.
Tips for drawing a picture of your body in a comic style
Here are some tips for drawing lively cartoon-style pictures with just line drawings. If you learn how to draw, you will be able to draw powerful pictures with just lines, so you will have more drawers.
There are two points. The first is the strength of line drawings, and the second is how to use wrinkles and shadows. Let's try to challenge these by moving your hands.
Add strength to line drawings
By adding strength to the line, you can express a sense of perspective. Expressing a sense of perspective is surprisingly simple: just make the front part a thick line and the back line a thin line.
What you should be careful about when applying strength is to draw a stroke with a certain strength. If you add too much strength with a single stroke, the lines will be rattling.
Also, by changing the thickness of the line, you can easily distinguish between the part you want to emphasize and the part you don't. Especially when drawing a cartoon-like figure, you can create a dynamic picture by drawing a thick line around the face and drawing a thin line around the others.
Draw conscious of wrinkles and shadows on clothes
Another point when drawing a cartoon-like picture is to be conscious of wrinkles and shadows on clothes.
For the wrinkles and shadows on the clothes, draw a thin part where the light hits and draw a dark line where the light doesn't hit.
The same applies to the unevenness of the face, so that the high part is thin and the low part is dark.
Tips for drawing an anime body digitally
Lastly, here are two tips for drawing a digitally animated body.
Draw with the center of gravity in mind
The first point is to draw the position of the center of gravity of the body. The center of gravity of a person is "navel" for men and "slightly below the navel" for women.
The center of gravity line is a straight line from the center of gravity to the ground. By using this center of gravity line, you will be able to express walking and running well.
For example, when drawing an illustration that is walking sideways, tilting the center of gravity line in the direction you want to walk, and taking the claws will clean the body structure. If you further increase the tilt, you can also express how you are running. When you are running, you can get a lively picture by taking the claws so that the ankles of the shoulders and shafts are in a straight line.
Representing a three-dimensional texture with skin color overlay
The second point is how to paint colors. When applying the skin, first apply all the skin color so that there is no leftover. Then, add redness to the tip of the nose that is exposed to light, or to the cheek where you want to leave a soft texture.
Lastly, apply a skin color to the face and hands where you want to express more softness using an airbrush to create a realistic digital animation-like skin.
Summary
In order to draw a well-balanced body, first decide how many heads you have and then try to adjust the size of the parts. In this case, it is also effective to use a polygon.
Also, when drawing a woman's body, the finish will change drastically just by trying to draw while being aware of the difference between the body and the man. If you can do this, try to challenge your manga-like or digital-animated body to improve your skills.
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