#body drawing tutorial

[cccentipedes]

Drawing Bellies Bodies and Rolls: A digital drawing tutorial for the Vancouver Arts and Comics Festival's 2024 Online Educational Series! (Veiw PDF on VANCAF website here!)

[the-friendliest-freak]

Loved the tutorial on expressions! I was wondering if you had any tips on how you made your body types haha

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Here’s the link. Sorry this took so long lmao.

[nagararts]

Here's some notes on some of the upper body muscles so you, artist, don't need to look them up

They are not medically accurate, just enough for artists to know the necessary muscles and how they work together

I 100% recommend doing the last exercise I did to be able to actually place the muscles

Here are my notes on the lower body muscles

[tootroll]

As an artist with a focus on fat and trans bodies, my understanding of the human form comes from seeing variety.

I admire bodies that don't fit into the ideal form, because they are all the more common and all the more ignored.

You can find a million drawings featuring fat bodies that are drawn with the sole purpose of being appealing due to following the ideal form. Whether it be because our eyes have gotten the idea, through repetitive influence, that that form is *ideal*. Or for audiences to lust after.

Finding art depicting variety in body types, in fat distribution and structure, is very.. very hard. Sometimes, if you want to see more of something, YOU ought to be the thing you want to see more of.

If you truly want to be a body positive artist, learning to draw a generally appealing fat body is less than half the battle. Thin bodies have variety in fat distribution and in structure. Fat bodies just accentuate these forms.

Practice the ways fat falls around the body, see how it feels when you let yourself play around with the human form. Have FUN with it.

Learning to stop caring about making bodies look the most appealing to wider audiences has been the most freeing thing for me. Practicing various body types has been very fun, and has improved my understanding of the human form more than anything else possibly could.

[f88lfool]

My first anatomy tutorial. How I connect arms to the torso. Simplified the muscles for better comprehension

PS. Pectoral is misspelled as “pectorial” in the picture. Don’t make that mistake haha

And I’d love to see the art made from using these as reference, you can message or tag me.. whatever you want

Edit: The extended names of the muscles:

Neck - Sternocleidomastoideus

Traps - Trapezius

Lats - Latissimus Dorsi

[dragonskulls]

made this for oomf but you can have it too. a little breakdown of my process with bird wings if anyone finds it useful

[maggotmessiah0]

Wagyu tuened freaky

[drawingden]

How to Draw Anatomy in Four Steps by fakhear

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[hansama]

I tried to sketch Papyrus in both my art style and @skull-otaku xD

[milkibana]

here ya go @legoyuri some body hair tips

make sure to keep in mind other hair colors when drawing body hair but most importantly have fun and do what you think fits your style the best

body hair should be on a separate layer if you haven't colored yet

but i never do it on a separate layer lol! i just suffer

[sentisnail]

Guys, its for all of us

[nagararts]

Here are now my notes on the lower body muscles so you artists don't need to look them up

They are not medically accurate, just enough for artists to know the necessary muscles

You totally should do the last exercise to understand how they come together

Here are my notes on the upper body muscles

[an-actual-floof]

How I draw: Triumvirate!

excuse my handwriting

I wanted to share how I draw these three and body features/shapes I like to give them! I think body shapes and definition can do a lot for characterization so I like to incorporate it when I can

(written out version of my notes can be found below the cut!)

Spock:

- thin, trapezoidal shape

- defined ribs and taut stomach (fishbone ass)

- lanky arms and legs

- long fingers and palm

- squareish fingertips

- deft and defined

- on the leaner side but still strong

- sinewy & defined muscles

Jim Kirk:

- stocky

- narrowed rectangular torso — pear shaped almost

- wide shoulders

- plump stomach and thick thighs ;)

- practically hairless by design lol

- thick, stocky hands

- rounded fingertips

- short strong fingers

- muscle with light definition -> chubby!!

Bones:

- tapered cup shape — wide chest, narrow waist

- football padding ass build

- slight ribs showing, little belly pudge

- hairy!!

- strong deft fingers

- square fingertips

- thin wrists

- visibly strong, but more lean than bulky

- sharp, protruding muscles that taper at joints

[deva-arts]

zomg... the girls! Sketched out! And a few characters I never showed designs for! haha! I keep thinking about the beach, so this is their swimwear.

I hope to make a full fledged drawing for all of them soon~ then the guys~~

Some newbies are: Aura (blue!) Katya (Gold!) and more of Verra (Green!) We'll eventually see more about them as I draw more things and doodles.

[sacredsapling]

Some pencil sketches to study torsos, from a few weeks ago! Feel free to study from this, trace, whatever (just credit if you post it). 

[bluu3berry]

cw: gore

It loves bread :3