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Big Guide to Drawing the Bodyby `majnouna

Resources & Stock Images / Tutorials / Traditional Art / Drawing / Human Anatomy

This is the revised and final version of this tutorial, though some details are not included – I'm including them exclusively in the book

Hands have their own tutorial here:

And feet here:

All my tutorials are listed here: [link]

Get all of my human anatomy tutorials in one convenient book or e-book!

Some advice to use this tutorial:

Use the above guide as a supplement to gesture drawing. Reading and memorizing all this won't help you as much as sketching from life; this guide simply provides the understanding that will make your sketching a learning experience rather than a random process. So, carry a sketchbook around and gesture-draw people around you, especially people in motion. This way you are forced to use fast gesture drawing and not go obsessive over the details, and that is how you can achieve a solid grounding in grasping form and movement before moving on to worrying about surface additions such as clothing and expression. Think of the human body as an assortment of volumes, not as lines put together. This will change your life, trust me.

See also this article: [link]

Now about the tutorial itself. It is large, so if you find it intimidating do start with my much smaller guide right here: [link]

Bibliography:
Drawing the Head and Figure, Jack Hamm
Le dessin anatomique facile, Burne Hogarth
Experience and (believe it or not) martial arts

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~GwennieBlack May 3, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Wow; I'm amazed. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR DOING THIS, I really have no words to describe my gratitude. This is exactly what I've been looking for all this time; references, standards, points to begin from. You made it so easy and still, incredibly effective. Especially with the muscles: I never thought how important they are. Simple, easy to understand, it's just the best tutorial about human body proportions I have seen so far. Really complete in every sense.
Again, thank you, you got me busy practising all day long, studying...I still suck xD but now I have a lot of new information I can now apply to my drawings to improve them.
A BIG THANKS♥ And of course, AMAZING JOB!!!!!

*Azeltas Mar 22, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

thanks a lot

~NANO86152 Mar 10, 2013

KOOL ^_^ LOL

~InTheSameBoat Feb 18, 2013

thank you!!

~weedcookies Feb 11, 2013

Thank you so much this helped me so much

~Xariamaru Jan 28, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

oh great info! thanks a lot, i always seem to have issue with the muscles at the arms!

~olivethomas Jan 28, 2013 Professional General Artist

Fantastic!

~Softenik Jan 28, 2013

Oh my god, thanks! It really helped me :>.

~TheAnonymousBlogger Jan 27, 2013 Hobbyist Writer

Had run into some trouble with my human drawings - Now they look so much better

I'm gonna study this for some time, thanks for making it dude! You're awesome

!HazelDawn Dec 13, 2012 Student

Oh my goodness~ Thank you so much for posting this!
This will help me out so much! I just wanted to thank you again for helping us beginners out! Just, thank you so much!

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