Hi this is Craig for Expert Village again. The next segment is how to draw the human body in proportion and scale. The universal scale is what I'll be talking about. It's the seven or eight and a half heads scale. I'll get into it and I'll describe the whole thing about how to use your basic first sketch of a head, of just a simple circle. And using that to base your entire sketch of the human body and I'll talk about muscles a little bit and how they work and how you would sketch them real loosely. This is more of an underlay, it's nothing that's finished. It's more of just to get started, this is how to practice, this is simply for practice and for like doing underlay?s so when you want to draw something that's more finished looking you can use this as a reference or like use that for underneath that skin and basically just trace over it. For this type of stuff it's very difficult at times so it's good to actually go out to maybe a bookstore and get maybe references. I recommend this book: How to Draw Marvel Comics. It's very old school, it's by Stanley, if you know who he is. He's the originator. It's very old but it's got everything you need to know. There's not a better one out there. Go with the original on it. So that's the section and let's get started. So the section is how to draw the human body in scale or relative scale. So there's multiple theories on how to draw the human body. Any advice I can give you is, if you really want to get into this stuff, take a live drawing class. You can go to them for free, but basically how we're going to start, we're going to start with the basics. I'm not going to get into drawing the face or the fingers or the feet. That's a whole separate, whole other thing. So basically we're going to start with a human head. Remember I was telling in some of my earlier sessions, talking about practicing your oval shapes? So your oval shape is basically a head tilted straight up. So I'm going to, basically, how you build a body is you draw a head and then you use the head to keep your body in scale. So let's just draw a head, just a regular oval right there, OK. And usually how the scaling works, it's, the body is eight and half heads tall. That's kind of your average. Other people will tell you that it's six, but depending on what you want to draw, if you want to draw more like hero looking people, more comic book looking, it'll give you more of a bigger is better look.
kaylu12
Jan 19, 2009
Excellent...very helpful for a beginner like me! Thanks!