Do you have any tutorials about your anatomy style? I adore it
Hi ! That’s really sweet actually, but no i don’t haha - i don’t think i’ve ever made a tutorial before? I wanna try though, so thanks for asking about that! ^^
i made a small one here for ya (please don’t hestitate to ask for some more in-depth ones, or on other specific anatomic areas!):
SHAPES AND BODY PROPORTIONS
- i mainly base my anatomy on shapes and fast lines !
- i like to start out with fast, rough sketches, built on partly stick figures and circles/cylinders. You can easier find more movement, weight and dynamics in those fast lines!
- The cylinders and circles i drew in the right side here are probably something we’ve all seen before - but it IS a really nice and simple way to get started on understanding how our limbs are put together!
- be careful of drawing your lineart directly on top of the cylinders though (if you’ve drawn the cylinders/circles directly onto the character), as it can make your character look a bit ‘’square’’? They’re more like building blocks, where you gotta add some muscles and volume to the limbs after those blocks, to make them come alive ^^ (look to the red shapes on the left that i normally draw - there you can fx see on the calf and the forearm that i’ve widdened the cylinder in some areas, and narrowed it in others, to show volume)
- Here i’m further showing some shapes that’s ‘’hidden’’ in the sketch
- notice that i drew the head smaller than the chest-circle - if i had drawn the head even smaller, she would have looked way taller. And in return, had i drawn it bigger, she would have looked shorter. I like this particular head-to-body proportion though - it looks well balanced! (and you can always make the legs longer, the upper body shorter, add more weight or maybe less muscles, or whatever combo of proportions that floats your boat - that’s the fun part, and what really creates interesting and different characters!)
- Tip: thighs are slightly longer than your calves (average height). If you make the calves longer, the person will appear much taller - and the opposite as well. This is where it’s nice to be an artist tho, bc you can create whatever the hell you want :)
- Tip 2: When your arms are hanging down by your sides, they usually reach down to right below your pelvis. (If you make the arms longer, the character might risk looking a bit like a monkey)
- see i’m a bit messy, because i just go directly from a rough sketch to something akin to lineart (like this pic). But that’s what works best for me ^^ (I only really use the sketch as guidelines for what i can mess around with on the next layer)
- the above pic is possibly a little too stagnant to properly show what i mean with the flowy/bendy lines - they’re best put to use when the body is in action, after all. But you can still sense them, even when the person stands still! I also think it gives them a bit extra gravity.
2 small examples of how i make stuff:
I can make a more in-depth tutorial where i go step-by-step on specific areas, if anyone would like to see that - i could also continue this one, since i made it in a rather short time, just to test out making small tutorials (it was fun!)
bear in mind that this is all just based on my own observations! Hopefully it can help just a little ^^
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