Anatomy tutorial??? I THINK SO! (plus mini side profile, hand, and feet tutorials)

hello and welcome back to another very highly requested video a little while ago I made a hair tutorial which was the first tutorial I made so really before I get into talking about how I draw the human body I do want to give the same disclaimer I gave in my hair video when I'm making this video I don't want people to take it as this is the one and only and right way to draw this thing because it's really not and when I'm giving advice even though there are general rules that you should follow or things to keep in mind this is more of just this is more of just how I draw bodies and things that I do that you can watch this video take in and then maybe apply to your own art and I especially feel like with bodies it's something that can vary a lot depending on what kind of art style you have the way you draw bodies can be very different so again I'm going to talk about how I draw bodies so I'm going to notice a lot of people kind of confusing and miss sort of topic is they confused anatomy with proportions so anatomy is kind of like here's a hand here's a leg here's a neck and then proportions is like here is how things are sized in comparison to each other so one example that I always like to give is that the hand is roughly the same size as your face and so you can practice drawing hands but it's also important to like remember the size of it you know so practice drawing hands is like practicing a part of anatomy but then making sure that it's the same size as the face is practicing proportions and sometimes people will say that they need help with anatomy when they really mean that they need help with proportions and then some people do it the opposite way of what I just said I'm gonna try and cover both in this video but it's probably going to end up leaning more towards the anatomy side of things I don't know a whole lot about proportions honestly I'm not super confident in my skills in proportions but I can make a video on it sometime in this I don't know when and it probably won't be my next tutorial but that's an idea if you guys are interested in let me know and the first piece of advice that I'm going to give is to do figure Studies and I think figure Studies is a really great way to practice both Anatomy and proportions figure drawings is something that I feel like a lot of people think is like an advanced art skill really figure drawing is for anybody at any skill level it's just a great exercise even if you aren't looking to improve your anatomy and portion skills specifically and I think that it's something that everybody okay I think it's something that everybody should practice so what I'm gonna do now is I'm going to draw some figure studies of my own and I will talk in a voiceover a little bit more about figure studies and how they can help it comes to giving advice on Anatomy figure studies are absolutely always then a born thing that I recommend because they're just such a helpful thing to do the way I'd recommend doing for your studies is by starting off really fast and then gradually work yourself into longer sessions for the sake of this video I only did shorter sessions I did roughly two minutes on each image normally I would start off with about two minutes per image and then I'll gradually work my way up to longer sessions the longer sessions are really up to you for like the length of them it doesn't really matter just whatever you're comfortable with but slow studies and fast studies both have their advantages faster studies hopes you loosen up and just makes your bodies and poses look a lot more fluid and not stiff which is I know something that a lot of people struggle with it's something that I've definitely struggled with in the past and the slower studies help you pay attention to details a little bit more doing figure studies just really helps you get the flow of a body down first before focusing on like details which is a really important thing because again it helps make your art look a lot less stiff and overtime even just by doing figure studies you'll find that your anatomy starting to improve because you're doing it so often and even like with the quicker ones where you're not as focused on making things and tamo clear proportionally correct you're still drawing bodies over and over and over again and the only way that you get better at drawing something really is by drawing it repeatedly and yes doing for your studies is studying more like realistic body proportions because they're pictures of people when it comes to style izing are especially with people really it's kind of a thing where you need to know the rules before you break them does that make any sense so let's say hands for example let's say I'm drawing hands big now now there's a big difference between stylistically choosing to draw large hands and drawing hands just wrong and a lot of the time you can tell the difference if you want to make large hands you need to know how to draw regular hands so then that way when you draw a large hands it looks intentional and doesn't look like you're just making a mistake that's why figure studies are really important because it's helping you learn what a real-life regular human body looks like and then once you learn what a realistic body looks like you'll know how to stylize it correctly I actually have never been to a finger study class but if you have a figure study class available to you then by all means go ahead and try it I'm sure like IRL figure studying is a lot more helpful but if you're like me don't have that option there are definitely a lot of websites that you can use for it your studying I used to use a website called line of action I don't really use it anymore just because I've used it for so long and so many times I actually ended up drawing pretty much all of the images that they have and so I kind of need a new one but I could definitely recommend that one the one that I was using in this video was quick poses still really new to quick poses but it seems like a pretty good website I can't really vote for other figure studying websites but these two are pretty customizable choose if you want male models or female models if you want clothed or nude or both they also have options for studying animals and hands so it's just a really cool thing I could definitely work out on both of these websites so yeah do you figure studies very important they're also just like a great warm-up in general especially like the looser ones so if you don't do figure studies now I could definitely recommend you start doing them because it's just an incredibly helpful thing overall so like with most things in art you want to start off by breaking something down into its most basic shape and it actually took me a while to find like guidelines and stuff for a body that works for me so I'll share that with you now I'm going to draw a female body and then a male body so you guys can like see the difference and I'll like point out differences and stuff and then I'll talk a little bit more about Anatomy when I'm like making it so when we start off the head I like most people make a circle there we go okay know one thing that a lot of people don't really mention when they make heads is like you can start off with a circle and like that's fine but let's say like if we're drawing a 3/4 view so we'll draw the head when I draw the head I'll usually draw this line right here then this is like the center line and then I'll draw kind of the jaw which usually depends on what person I'm drawing shapes are a really big thing I'm going to just be drawing a very generic body but keep what kind of shapes you're using in mind whenever you're drawing a body because that can make the character lean in a different way both like in body type and personality and stuff you have this face right now this isn't the best and you want to know why because a lot of people tend to forget this part right here so if you think of like a human head this part right here back here that's where your brain goes so if you don't have that you don't have a brain and so if you're going to start off by drawing a circle for your head like that's perfectly fine just remember to extend this part out because that's where the brain goes it'll look a little bit weird when you start drawing it like this at first probably because they're not used to it because that's how I felt when I first started adding this part I thought it looked really big and like made them look like an alien but after a while it's like that's it's how a head looks the guidelines are such an important thing to remember they're just the most helpful thing that you can have and if you don't normally use guidelines it'll probably take you a long while before you can find something that works for you that's perfectly fine when I first started exploring my art style and experimenting with stuff like that it took me so long to find guidelines making body and a head and all that stuff that actually worked for me so it's just a lot a lot of experimenting don't be afraid to change things up if you feel like something isn't working for you you don't have to keep it if you feel like you're missing something feel free to add things and they're just overall the most helpful thing like for me this is pretty much all I need to make a head because I know how I draw heads and so I can use these guidelines are usually just all revolves around this because this is kind of like a brow bone if I have to draw another line this would be like a brow bone this would be like the general nose area and then the cheek would there you go I am so bad at explaining things why do you guys want me to make tutorials when I draw noses I don't normally draw the nose directly on this center line because even though the nose is like in the middle of the face it's also like a three dimensional object and I'm assuming the person watching this probably draws a lot of 3/4 views I'm looking at you and when it's in a 3/4 Co it wouldn't be directly on this line because a nose is a 3-dimensional object and so I usually draw this bridge of the nose which will eventually connect into the eyebrow I always draw that first and then have it extend out a little bit again that line will determine the shape and then I'll draw like a little triangle and then that triangle usually connects with that line because this line isn't necessarily where the nose should it be it's where the nose is coming out now I always draw the nose first because it is in the center of the face and everything like kind of revolves around the nose at least like when I draw it and so when you draw this like I said it'll become the eyebrow and then you can symmetrically draw the other one and then what goes underneath the eyebrow eye and then the mouth I normally don't draw a lot of Chin's just because I like drawing really expressive faces and that usually involves me stylizing the mouth a lot so I don't normally I I do obviously draw a chin but a lot of time my chins don't really exist a lot because I just I don't know I like drawing exaggerated mouth but actually kind of weird I don't really have a whole lot to say about next if I'm being completely honest I don't really know how to describe how I draw next to be honest I usually use the chin and the back of the head to help me make the neck and when I do it I always kind of make this you ish shape and then build off of that so when I'm drawing this I'll see if I could put a picture of a neck up here like right now there are these I don't know what this is anatomically called but that's what that is and then I'll use that to like help me place these which will eventually become the collarbones right there when you're first drawing a body it's important to be very loose this head I shouldn't have done as detailed as I did that was just more for the sake of you guys but when you're drawing like a full body it's very important to loosely put everything down before adding even this level of detail which honestly isn't a lot of detail so if I draw bodies how I normally do this is usually the speed at which I draw bodies so it's very sketchy very very loose and there's a lot of lines in similar places I don't know if that made any sense but and just I'm not really worried about making things proportionally accurate I'm just trying to get a flow down like I was saying in the figure study section it's really important to get the flow of a body down before adding too many details so then you can avoid making your bodies look stiff so talk about the body itself a little bit more so forward actual guidelines I use after I draw the neck I usually draw I don't know if you saw but I do like a line here which it's kind of where I place the shoulders for the shoulders I usually just do some circles nothing fancy at all and then for the upper body and the kind of pelvic area pelvis pelvic whatever for both of those areas I used circles sometimes down here I'll use like a square or rectangle again depends on the body type and then you can't really see it because I can run out of room so this president of being kind of short but there's also like another rectangle in here so we this circle here this circle here and then kind of like a rectangle here obviously if you change the shapes and like the sizes it'll change like their body type and their height and all of that kind of similar to the head like a crosshatch thing there I don't know this plus sign and on the body it'll usually be I usually make it a little bit more curved if it's like on a female body because boobs on male bodies this is generally more flat and then I also use this line to kind of lead into the belly button the chest I think is something a lot of people struggle with I definitely struggled with it because like for female chest it's always hard for me to figure out if it's in proportion with the rest of the body but just a very important thing to remember is that boobs are just it's so like curvy your bodies will probably have like a larger chest and then skin your bodies will probably have like a smaller chest obviously like bodies come in all different sorts of shapes and sizes the only time I really draw in nude bodies is if I'm figure studying so I don't really have like a way to draw a nude boob so when I draw a chest it's usually just like a shape and then I'll use clothes to define the chest a little bit more I usually go in then to define the stomach a little and I always connect the stomach kind of with the pelvic area so let's say we start here like where this connects obviously there'd be a fold here because that's where the leg is you'll see me do something like this and that's just like that is kind of a shape of where the belly would be and then this is that like awkward I don't know what it's called anatomically again but the place right next to the crotch where it's like filet and pelvic area meet that thing I also noticed a lot of people not really draw like folds in skin and like rolls because they just think it's an unattractive thing but really it's it's just a thing on the body it's not anything that I think people need to be worried about obviously it's a lot more easier said than done that's just my opinion when you're drawing a female body it's important to look at like this cuz obviously like you have an hourglass shape which is kind of like a traditional female body I guess there should be a curve here but you don't want to pinch this in because then she won't have any internal organs and then you don't want to make the chest like wider than the hips because that very rarely happens with female bodies legs again I don't really do anything fancy one thing that I always like I don't know what they're called I'll see if I can find it but this part right here and then at this point I'll usually define the knees a little bit more this leg since it's more facing the front than me would be like more in the center but then for this one I would rather circle more like on the edge so if we have this facing the left the bottom this part of the thigh this line is more straight and then this one is more curved and then underneath the knee on the calf this part is more straight and then this part is more curved so we'll have a straight and then a curved and then straight and curved when the leg is facing the front that world doesn't normally apply I guess instead I'll usually have two more straight lines on top and then more curvy lines on the bottom to help define the calf I'm holding back upper it came out never mind feet I kind of ran out of room here yourself focus on that on the next page if we move back up here when we look at like this shoulder area we have this neck I usually make the shoulders extend like a little bit above and then also like the shoulders armpit area that regardless of whether you're drawing a male or female body that will always connect back to the chest so you'll see a lot of artists do this thing it's getting sort to see because of all the red but I'll leave that this line will connect to the chest and they're kind of just in for me I don't really have a particular way of drawing arms it's really just two ovals I guess this part these lines are slightly curved and then this part I kind of draw similar to a calf hands and thinking of making a whole tutorial on because hands are a whole other issue so let me know if that's something that you're interested in I'll try and touch on them a little bit here but I don't think I'm gonna go too crazy and depths with them India that's kind of how I draw bodies those are generally like the guidelines I use I use a lot of rounded shapes I don't know I just love round shapes but feel free to do your own thing and then at this point you would go in and erase lines that you don't need or since I'm using pens I would different pen so normally my guidelines don't look like this at all but normally like if we go back to the finger studies they're very very little light and loose but just for the sake of you guys I made the lines a lot darker so I can emphasize things but they don't really look like that and yeah this is when you would start like to find things a little bit more when I draw collarbones I usually draw one more defined and then one that's just like a little line there's always this dip I don't know what this is again anatomically called I don't know why you guys want me to do tutorials these you know how I speak it's not very well awesome so there's that so next I'll draw a male body so then I can point out the differences of how I draw male and female bodies honestly they're not too much different I have I personally have a really hard time capturing masculinity but I'll kind of talk about how one would do that as I draw the baselines so heads I draw kind of was the same sharp angular shapes tend to be like the more masculine shape for heads also when I draw male heads I also kind of add in cheek bones I don't know I sometimes do it with female characters too but since men do tend to have like sharp or more angular faces I usually do that next again I don't really draw too much differently females tend to have longer necks than males but for my art style I just don't like the way it looks so I normally just draw very similar next but I guess that's something to keep in mind if you wanted to play around with that male shoulders you can either draw them the same and exaggerate the thinness of the waist or keep the waist the same and broaden out the shoulders I kind of bounce back and forth between doing both if females are like and that's not an hourglass if females are an hourglass males are like a trapezoid so again I draw my circle as i always do from my cross thing as I always do and now again for males remember they're more of a trapezoid shape instead of an hourglass shape so for males when I draw the pelvis I usually draw like a square or a rectangle for females instead of drawing like oval shapes up here or like teardrop shapes if you're drawing each individual breast I draw no no Pentagon's Pentagon's but two sides are melted together that's how I draw backs but again the same general rule that connects with that world technical here on my channel here's where you would really start to exaggerate that trapezoid things are called VA and ya legs same general role Yahoo now when you're drawing arms and legs on males the bicep on the male would usually be a little bit thicker and then the calves on male's would be a little bit thicker I when I draw females in theory like the thighs of a female body would be thicker than the calves of a male body would be thicker when I draw females I usually draw the thigh and the calf about the same thickness I don't know that's just working well with my art style this person came out pretty curvy if you're drawing someone who is thinner than the thigh would probably be thicker than the calf this is an incredibly messy and bad drawing but yeah you get my point those are the things that I do so I'm gonna move on to sign profiles I thought about making a separate tutorial for side Pepa for side profiles but honestly I don't think I have enough advice to give to justify making it its own video so I'll just throw it in here so as always I'll start with my circle when I drop side profiles I always draw straight line down I guess that's a good size how you draw this part depends again on what shape if draw the person has how big of a drop they have etc etc this part since it is a side view would be a lot more accentuated it would be you you would see it more is what I'm trying to say centerline about the center and then ear let's draw a neck sure this is generally where people have a hard time drawing side profiles because they don't know how to make this part look like a face well I'm here to help you make it look like a face look over here when I drew this face look at these guidelines and then look at where the nose is this part is the pre or center of it so there's like this upper part which will connect to the eyebrow and then there's lower part which turns into the nose and then in the center it does all sprouts out from that over here we have the same kind of like plus sign so imagine like if there's a and then you just get rid of that and it's that same sort of guideline the way I drew the nose over there is the same kind of way I would draw the nose over here so you would have this upper part which would extend into the eyebrows and then a lower part which will turn into the nose for a lot of people and they draw side profiles if they have just this base part I find people usually either try and draw on the line or try and draw up behind the line but really you want to draw more in front of the line because again like I was saying when I was talking about the nose it's a three-dimensional shape so once you draw this line it would be protruding out of the line instead of being on it or behind it up here it's pretty much just a flat line and then that's the forehead and then that extends back here it's usually not a perfect flat around this because foreheads don't normally work like that at least I don't think and I usually like to make this part very square and angular and then for the nose again if we compare to over here you would see a lot of like the under of the nose and the nostrils for a side profile you would not see as much so when I draw the triangle I usually make it much more thin for people who know my art style I draw noses kind of weird I usually draw like this sort of shape and then that would be like a side part of it there you go now lips people hate drawing lips I used to hate drawing lips now I don't really care about lips but a lot of people struggle with the lips most of it is just trial and error to be honest a lot of people are afraid of making it look like super pouty kissy lips and it's just a thing that's gonna happen when you draw side profiles let me see if I can so I normally bounce back and forth between two different ways of drawing lips so we have this picture right here which is kind of more than what I was going for just kind of like a you know how when you're like a little kid and you draw like the seagull shapes like that it's kind of like that only a little bit more geometrical I guess you could say so here you'll notice I actually only drew one lip and I normally do this sort of thing if I'm just like doodling and scribbling out something really quick but you'll probably tell moto examples I gave you I think that is something that somebody out there might like for finished illustrations me personally I like drawing really angular shapes for the side profiles so if you usually try and go for more round shapes try making things a little bit more sharp and that might help you I'll show you quick breakdown of how I draw hands quick breakdown of how I draw feet so when I draw a hand it usually starts off as a circle so if you look at a hand gets real complicated right just break things down to very simple shapes so if this is like the hand or like the palm of the hand we have a finger and then other fingers I'll go over what I just did in a second and then a thumb fingers I don't really have a whole lot to say about they're just tubes sometimes I'll add one of these if I need to like draw specific pose of a finger because that's something to keep in mind you'll have this part and then they kind of like make kind of like a block like a boxy shape right so you'll have this bottom part here this middle part and then this part and they usually are arranged from the biggest to smallest so this is the biggest one medium size smaller size now what I did here when I drew that that's actually both the middle finger and the ring finger if you ever look at a hand like just right now put your hand out in front of you every single time like if your hand is laying in a natural position your middle finger and your ring finger will just naturally be drawn together I usually add a line here to define them a little bit more but I usually keep it as one shape and then if you were to sketch you would have this pinky muscle here right here to where the pinky is there would actually be like a bone so there would be a little bump there and then feet I usually break down in three basic shapes right so that's the ankle will have the little boom there now when I draw feet I usually do first just like trapezoid shape which is like the top part of the foot this I don't even know what shape that is square slash triangle shape square slash triangle shape square slash triangle shape square and then this sort of rounded smokes rectangle for at the toes I usually keep this line keep this line this part I'll have it like that maybe I'll shape that in and then when I draw house I'll usually draw the big toe as its only thing and then kind of how I drew the ring finger and the middle finger I usually just draw all four of these toes and then add lines toenail is usually helped because toes are really weirdly shaped now that's again not a perfect foot but that's just a base of how I draw feet I can't speak for every artist out there obviously but I can assume just like me it takes a while to find guidelines that really work and I would highly highly highly encourage you to take the time to find out what shapes what guidelines all that works for you because let me tell you it is a lifesaver it makes drawing poses so much easier makes drawing different body types so much easier and it took me years to find it but now that I have one I'm really really happy that I took the time and experimented with different things and really paid attention to what works and what didn't work for me if you draw a slightly above angle of a person I just remember the shapes that I put in the head so we have that and then I remember the shapes that I used to make like the neck and the shoulders and I'll do that and I can just envision where the shape will be because I'm not imagining a body and imagining shapes it's just such an amazing thing that makes life so much easier and just like in my hair video I will say the most important tip I can give you for drawing bodies or anything it's to preface I said it in my other video I'll say it again here you can sit all day on YouTube watching tutorials on how to draw something yes get tips learn new things that's amazing but when it comes to art the only way you can ever truly improve on drawing something is if you sit down and you draw that thing a million times the only way I can draw this body or this body or body's not good but I drew it the only way I was able to draw any of this is by drawing these things for years the only way you can improve drawing something that you want to draw is to draw it for years and it's going to be frustrating and you're going to want to give up and that's perfectly okay don't give up but feeling those things is okay and normal you see all these artists that you look up to and you want to be like them and the only way that they got to where they are is because they kept drawing and that's the only way you're gonna get there is if you keep drawing so thanks for coming to a TED talk yeah again I'm sorry if anything was unclear I'm really bad speaking I don't know what you guys want me to keep making tutorials but let me know if you found this helpful if you think I left anything out or if anything was just unclear let me know in the comments down below and I will do my best to help I tried giving everything that I could but like I said in the hair video I don't know your guys's specific problems with drawing bodies so I don't really know what specifically to address so I just kind of gave these general tips and tricks that I have and hopefully you found them useful you know a lot of you guys are young artists who ask me for advice on how to draw various things and so leave a comment down below what you would like me to make a tutorial on next I know clothes is a big contender for a next tutorial because a lot of people ask questions about how I draw clothes but leave comments down below about other things I should make a tutorial on and I'll probably get to it eventually and now I didn't go over proportions too much yeah but I tried I mean it's good there's a lot to do with bodies and so there's just a lot going on to capture in a video but I can't make a part two of this if you guys want if there's enough demand for it and enough questions about bodies remaining after this maybe this video a thumbs up if you liked it comment down below if this was helpful or if you have any questions and if you want to see more of my art subscribe I'm apparently posting tutorials now but I also draw a lot of illustrations of characters I talk a lot about my own characters and I like drawing fanner of shows that I enjoy and stuff like that and you can also follow me on any social media Instagram is the best place to follow me so I would suggest following me there and there is a video on screen and in the iCard for you to check out if you're interested thank you for watching and I will hopefully see you next week bye

Channel: Oliver's Antics

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Length: 32min 52sec (1972 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 11 2019