#fat 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!)

[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

[lethesbeastie]

Hi, I saw your post about practicing drawing fat people and I was wondering if you could compile like a list of resources or references?

It can be difficult to find resources for drawing the wide variety of forms fat bodies can occupy, so I've done my best to bring together some resources I've been able to prove have some degree of diversity in the references they offer!

My primary resource recommendation for drawing fat people is Morpho Anatomy For Artists: Fat And Skin Folds! It does a wonderful job breaking down where fat accumulates on the body, how it interacts with the familiar landmarks of human anatomy, and what sort of shapes it tends to form under the influence of gravity. It's a phenomenal reference and my top recommendation for anyone seeking to improve at drawing fat people!

When it comes to finding decent photo references for fat people, the pickings are frustratingly slim. Most sites that specialize in pose references either don't have fat models or have all their images behind paywalls. Of the resources I looked through, the best sources for pose references were Adorkastock and Line of Action.

@adorkastock actively seeks to provide an incredible profile of pose references with diverse body types, and as an added bonus you can access a lot of their images for free on their site/Tumblr or join their patreon for early access to images! Line of action is a site aimed towards practicing figure drawing, providing images and a timed function to challenge artists to sketch within a set time limit. I took the time to go through roughly 300+ images and was pleased to find that during my session around two-to-three out of every ten photos were fat models. The only caveats to this was the fact that most of the images were of the same individual, limiting the applications for studying the variants of fat bodies. Still, it's an amazing tool that has a free mode and allows you to filter the types of references you want based on age and level of nudity.

Beyond sites that specialize in art reference photography, there's also the ever popular Pinterest, which is the site where I typically seek references for my personal studies. Due to the nature of Pinterest's extensive collection, there's a vast variety of references for different fat body types that includes a lot more "everyday" people. The primary issue with Pinterest however is the rampant reposting and lack of proper credits for images, which can make things dicey depending on how you wish to use the references you find. For personal studies this isn't really an issue, but for any sort of professional or paid work is something to be aware of just for the sake of accountability.

* For those who are 18+, porn photography of real people also offers an incredible wealth of visual resources for fat bodies and how they interact with gravity/movement/etc. The variety of positions and angles offer many opportunities to study human anatomy, and it's a pretty well-known fact that drawing NSFW art can be an important learning experience for those struggling with drawing anatomy. In the end, it depends on your personal level of comfort with viewing/drawing explicit images, but it's not something you should completely overlook.

Last but not least, look at the work of artists you admire who draw fat people! While I typically recommend sticking to photo references for learning anatomy, studying artist's portrayals of fat people is also incredibly helpful for learning different tactics for simplifying and/or stylizing fat bodies to better fit ones own style. There are also plenty of artists who've crafted tutorials detailing their approach to drawing fat folks, so I highly recommend you check them out as well! I hope the resources I've linked here can help you in your studies, and feel free to drop another ask if you have any more questions! I'm planning on posting a tutorial on how I do studies for fat people soon, so that will be an additional resource for you once I've got it posted!

[atomicc]

BRUCE IS FAT!!!! He literally has a very simple body plan that doesn't work in the same way a humans body would so you can't even say "oh well idk how to draw fat bodies" he is just two ovals. OVALS. And God That Excuse is bullshit anyways because every single human Bruce I see has him as eehhh kinda husky but could easily be seen as skinny if you didn't look close enough. It's sad. It's sad to finally have a fat character treated as not only a good thing but someone who is a heart throb that people fawn over and no ome draws him fat.

Look at this. No excuse. That's his body shape. He doesn't have the same body shape as JD or Branch or anything he has a round body shape. He's not just Branch but a little thicker he is unmistakably fat. JD is husky. Bruce is fat. Ok. Please. Begging.

[fragiledate]

hayy. heres a random, spontaneous, niche art note compilation

[slimeshade]

Felt the itch to draw skin folds and no bug would help with that so...

Here's a critter

[ganondoodle]

i dont like making art tutorials, not just bc my way of drawing and my knowledge about it changes daily but mostly bc i know saying sth wrong can do quite a bit of damage too, even if it was well meant its been many years by now but i once saw an art tutorial that said characters CANNOT have a certain body shape bc its unnatural (false) and will inevitably make them look bloated/pregnant and its put fear in my head that still lingers in my mind whenever i draw fat characters even tho i know better by now

[lujyujy]

✨ Tutorial on how to draw a chubby/fat body!✨

I really hope this tutorial helps y'all! If you practice drawing it, you can show me if you want for me to see it!

Keep in mind that this is MY way of making fat bodies, if you have any tips for me too, I'll accept it!!

If you have any questions, you can ask me via DM or in the comments here!

[reanimatedgh0ul]

because i've seen that there are some dp artists that struggle with how to draw fat ppl i'm now going to share some sources that i have found that i think could help other ppl out

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a link to how you can access morpho: anatomy for artists (fat and skin folds) for free

lastly this website is also another great reference source but you will have to request permission by the ppl in charge of it in order to gain access first as it's protected

this should be a good starting point and i encourage y'all continue to seek out other sources where you can👍

[redtail-lol]

I'll preface this saying I know Vivziepop is controversial and I haven't watched Hazbin Hotel or Helluva Boss but I wanna say something about her that's neutral or positive? But just know that it doesn't mean I support anything Vivzie has done and I don't really know a lot about her.

Vivzie has an art style that primarily features characters that are very thin. Yet we have Mimzy, a very clearly fat character. No, she's not perfect; she's the perfect hourglass/curvy type of fat, and you can criticize her for that if you want to, but she's still fat. She has prominent rounded cheeks, fat arms and legs, very large hips, and no waist definition. She's fat

The person who's art style is well known for having very thin characters made a fat character. Which means, fat people can be part of your art style too. Don't use style as an excuse not to draw fat people.

[oifaaa]

One thing I love, and that is pretty distinctive about your art, is the proportions of your figures. None of your characters are supermodel thin. They look like they eat meals that will allow them to fight crime without fainting.

I do need to get better at drawing a wider variety of body shapes as I do tend to favour the one body that I personally find easiest to draw

[schnuffel-danny]

"how to draw chubby people :)" "how to draw real thicc characters :)"

actually I wanna draw people who are fat and straight up obese

[cozylittleartblog]

Do you have any tips on drawing the Swatchlings?

frankly i am happy that i have gotten good enough at drawing these bird boys (gender neutral) that someone wants my opinions. anyway

i see a lot of fun ways to draw swatchlings tbh and i don't really know what you want tips on Specifically so i will just make notes on a few of the main things i think about when i draw them, most importantly: just make them bitches broad and fluffy, man. they're all canonically Ripped, but an important thing to remember is that they are likely completely covered in feathers! that's going to smooth out those muscular details, so you wont be able to see them, just the broadness of them.

my style is all based in gesture and shapes, so i use a lot of blocks so they look nice 'n sturdy. it's okay if you don't nail the anatomy on the sketch, i am constantly nudging things around all the way into the coloring phase trying to get the shapes right. frankly i would probably bulk out even this Example Bird if i were drawing them all the way. i usually add more fluff or muscle or chub or whatever when i detail them but the absolute bare bones of them is dedicated to blockie

i give mine these sort of vestigial wings on their arms to make them look softer, and i think about how feathers move and stick out on real birds to help inform how they'll sit on these birds, too. and i carry the soft, pointed feather shapes into the fingers so they also look soft.

tip for drawing Soft: don't get caught up making too many individual strands or feathers, soft things tend to come together in big tufts. you want big gentle shapes, not a bunch of little ones. unless you want your bird to look wet or scared in which case you're doing a great job and you've probably just drawn spamton instead

their faces are really tricky so i think of them as these kinda... non-euclidean semi-hollow pentagonal cones. there's five "planes" with the top two dedicated to eyes and the bottom three dedicated to mouth placement. sometimes you can see the far eye even though, in real life, you would not be able to see that "plane" of their face. you don't always have to understand things sometimes they just look cool, especially when characters are cybernetic birds made out of Magical Darkness. there is no rule about when to draw one or two eyes. it's just whatever looks better.

biggest and bestest tip of all about drawing swatchlings! very important! write this one down in your most favorite gel pen and Really Big! give them either tails, or tail coats. i don't care that canon has neither, canon is wrong. you can switch it out, even - my birds have tail coats as part of their standard uniforms but they can wear their real tails out on special occasions.

lastly, if you want to stick closer to a canon interpretation, i would not try to make the birds too unique, when they're on the job anyway - they like being coordinated! tasque manager is very particular about keeping them coordinated as well. but if you just want to have fun then you can make your birds as fun and unique as you want :) even though i draw them all about the same i personally love love love seeing super funky swatchling designs, making them different colors and species and such.

course summary:

make them Large. make them Fluffy. use really broad, blocky shapes and draw big, thick tufts of feathers instead of trying to detail them too much.

their heads are silly magic nonsense. draw a triangle and get funky with it. no rules, only vibes. if it vibes it stays

they always need some kind of tail or tail equivalent and i don't care what Anybody else says

if you want to follow canon, draw all the birds except swatch just about the same. if you're just here for a good time, throw that out completely and have fun with it.

[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.

[a5hrie7]

An almost nearly sfw tutorial on the body!

I hope you find this helpful!

Remember:

Fat tiddy hang off

1 donut floppy

[rangedreign]

ppl really like reccommending morpho fat and folds but this page from 'form of the head and neck' by uldis zarins is vastly more helpful for the face imo