#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!)

[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.

[fragiledate]

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

[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.

[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!

[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

[rose-chateau]

Okie I'm gonna overshare abt something on main again.

Every artist footnoting their "how to draw fat people" tutorials with "Round bellies are uncommon and usually only occur with bloating or pregnancy" is the exact reason why every google search related to crohns disease leads to a similar search titled "how to get rid of crohns belly"

[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

[distractionactivated]

Another day, another drawing fat people tutorial that seems to think the only people who get fat are people with estrogen-based endocrine systems and resultant fat distribution.

[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.

[joelmayerprods]

A little Moho Animation i made. I basically used it as a clean-up tool for traditional/fbf animation.

I also made a behind the scenes video which can be watched here:

[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

[sapphymayeyeplease]

If I made a “how to draw fat people” guide would anyone find that helpful?