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Person Drawing

Learning how to draw a human is actually quite easy once the process is broken down into its basic stages.  In this tutorial, we will first look at the fundamentals of proportions and scale, which we can then utilize in our own personal sketches

Step-by-Step Person Drawing Tutorial 

Male Proportions

Male proportions are broken up into eight or seven segments that divide the body into equally divided portions.

Female Proportions

The exact same can be done for the female body, the spacing between each area will just be slightly different. 

Again, these measurements should not be held as a hard and fast rule to stick to, but rather as a loose guideline to help establish correct sizes in form.  Once you understand the basic measurements, you can form figures in different poses.

Manipulating Measurements in Poses

Sitting Poses

As you get more comfortable with the basic guidelines, you can start using them more loosely, as if you were creating a skeleton to be sketched over. 

Laying Poses

Using these simple guideline skeletons, try to draw figures on the move in real life.

Practicing Loose Figures 

These guidelines can then be drawn quickly to be used for drawing figures more correctly in various poses, which is especially helpful when drawing figures from life.

We now can utilize these basic fundamental concepts in some of our own person sketches, where we can explore different poses and positions.  Learning how to sketch a figure from the mind is also great practice.

Draw a Walking Male Figure

Step 1: Lightly Sketching the Figure

Step 2: Drawing Over the Guidelines

Step 3: Shading Your Figure

This time, we will create a female figure drawing, working with the same principles but altering the figure a little more each time.

Draw a Female Figure in Motion

Step 1: Lightly Sketching the Figure

Step 2: Drawing Over the Guidelines

Step 3: Use Shading to Define the Figure

This time, let us challenge ourselves by drawing a seated figure.  This gives you the opportunity to really play around with measurements and place them along a distorted figure in a seated pose.

Draw a Seated Female Figure

Step 1: Lightly Sketching the Figure

Step 2: Drawing Over the Guidelines

Step 3: Shading Your Figure

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