Size matters

Most of us have drawn people-like figures only to have created a horribly disfigured person. Sometimes this is intentional most often, not. For those of us who don't have the artistic flair to produce exaggerated figures that can pass for art, basic proportions of the human figure are a good place to start.

I wanted to stray away from cartoon style drawings and so picked up a few pointers from Loomis' book.

A male can be drawn 8 head-heights tall. Partitioning the figure head-height-wise, other features of the human body can be placed. It'd be faster if you just look at a picture. Having drawn a few of these, I was able to alter them a little bit to fit in with whatever artistic style or action I want without the reference lines.

Proportions are great, but we also need to correctly present the weight distribution of our figures. I simply copied some mannequins from Loomis' book. I'll be playing with these mannequins until I am comfortable with weight distributions.