How to Draw a Bicep

Drawing muscles is one of the most important parts of learning to draw comic book heroes. Your characters must spring to action with larger than life powers and personalities. One of the main muscles shown flexed when super heroes are lifting cars or battling foes is the bicep. This article will show you a step by step method for drawing the bicep and adjoining muscles. Follow along as you learn to take simple shapes and turn them into the arm of a super hero!

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

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   Begin by drawing a frame for the arm muscles. To effectively draw the bicep you must draw the other connecting muscles. Draw a straight line across the page. Add football-shaped ovals for the muscles. Draw the deltoids overlapping the frame from top to bottom. Connect the bicep to the deltoid. Under the bicep, draw a rectangular oval wider at both sides for the tricep. The forearm muscles attach to both the bicep and triceps.

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   Connect the bicep with the other muscles by drawing a thin layer of skin between the areas of the muscles that don't directly touch. Add muscle striations, lines of corded muscle tissue, under the surface of the bicep with small parallel lines on the front and back of the bicep.

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   Erase your guidelines. Detail any areas that were destroyed when you erased the guidelines.

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   Ink the entire drawing. Let the ink dry. Erase all of the pencil. Add dark thick lines to the corners of the muscles to make them more believable. There you have it. You can now draw the bicep muscle on the arm. It is important to note that these muscles all work together and, to draw one muscle, you must learn how they all connect. Add these elements to your next super hero drawing.

Tips & Warnings

• Almost all muscles can be drawn with a variation on the oblong football shape. Study some comic books to see how they apply anatomy.

Resources

• A detailed veiw of arm and bicep anatomy.