Hi, I'm Jay French, from jayfrenchstudios.com.Today, I'm going to teach you how to draw the female body. The big differences between, of course drawing men and women, is that when you're working on your artist's skeleton, let's start with our head here, is that the shoulders, the big differences of the shoulders and the hips, are about the same width. In fact, the shoulders may even be narrower. Whereas, on a male figure, the hips are about only two thirds of the width of the shoulders, so now you don't have any difference in the head, until you get to the details, such as, more delicate features, more delicate jawline. Doing the rib cage on a female figure, you probably wouldn't start, you want to start a little smaller and get bigger, and get smaller again, as opposed to on a male figure, you'll actually start at, almost just do a half circle. You really will start in the middle of the circle, for the chest barrel, and you notice I've done it as if it's cut at an angle. This is a good basic shape for a rib cage, by the way. Now, on a female figure, of course you're going to come out to the hips. Hips are also lower on a female figure. The shoulders are going to be narrower, sharper. This is a definition of the collar bone. Now, from the collarbone, which is essentially, we've got the body twisted slightly, so the collarbone is essentially in the center. We have it a little off to the side, because of the twist of the body, so you can kind of imagine, a middle line down the center of the rib cage here, and the collarbone, the dip in the collarbone, being right in the center, there. From there you point outward, and you get the approximate center point, forward of the breasts. Now, at an angle like this, you'll want to show some definition, to the edge of the rib cage. You may smooth out the outer part of the rib cage, where you can see it at the back. You want to still show some definition in deltoids, even if you're not drawing a muscular figure, a muscular woman, an athletic woman. You still want to show some bulge to the deltoids, because they are present. It's a large prominent muscle. There's more curve to the inside, of the forearm. Pretty much, you just have a tube shape, for the upper arm. Of course, you want more delicate fingers and legs, always a trick. To get a more feminine look, you can cross your legs. Thighs on a female figure, very much descend in size. There's a male figure. While they do descend, they don't descend as dramatically. You don't want to put as much definition into a kneecap on a female figure, and you definitely want to get the curves of the calves. That is a strong point of female beauty. There you have your basics, in how to draw the female figure.
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