Video: How to Draw Arms

The human body can be difficult to draw, but get tips from our expert on how to draw arms in this free art lesson video clip on figure drawing.

Video Transcript

We've got our shoulders. Then we've got our muscles, our bicep and our tricep. If you don't know what a bicep and tricep are, I'll show you. When you have an arm, this is how the muscles would work. You've got your circles that we would sketch, and the bicep comes out here. Your shoulder muscle is wrapped in between like this, and your tricep comes out here. Technically you could just draw in circles or just pretty much circles, then muscles for the rest of your arm around the elbow. It's all basic circles. Once you can see that, you can start to actually just build it. You won't actually need to do this because you can visualize where, how big you want your muscles to look, or whatever. This is basically how it works. Of course there's variations to that. You could make different parts bigger or smaller - shorter, stubbier. You have to make sure that you keep everything into scale. If you're going to make this arm really short. Then you're going to make sure that is going to fit into the other arm. Usually the bicep is in between this line. Here and here is the area you want to aim for. Your arm has to actually extend all the way to here. So you've got your hands that come about in this area, about half-way down here. like I said, just using the circles. After that your can mirror it to make sure that you're doing the same on each side. You can make these muscles bigger if you wanted to. There's no real rule. Just make sure that everything is connected

How to Draw Arms

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