we're gonna be talking about female anatomy because as much as i like to interchange the
rules between both there are general rules if you want to make them identifiable how to draw girls
general things to keep in mind i always say that women and men are like really really similar in
terms of the general anatomy but there are things that separate the two in general when you are
drawing women the hips tend to be equal to or larger than the width of the ribcage and this
comes with puberty it's a thing that just happens uh biologically women don't bulk up as easily but
that doesn't mean they can't be muscular like if you draw like the very average woman she will
be less muscular than an average man that's just like baseline sort of thing right men will bulk up
a little bit easier because of testosterone women just don't bulk up as often the chest can be drawn
as a teardrop women have a different chest than men that's just facts right so women's chests
can be drawn with teardrops some people like to use an upside-down heart that's a little
bit more stylized if you want to go for something a bit more realistic you can use an upside-down
effeminate traits are identifiable at age 13 plus generally and are properly developed by 16 plus
when you draw kids 99% of the time they won't have identifiable feminine or masculine traits in their
bodies until they hit puberty so if you draw like an eight-year-old or a 12-year-old with like very
female proportions that's incorrect i'm just gonna put it out there right now that's incorrect and
that's creepy i'm just gonna say i'm just gonna say it um like within the body usually the way
that you identify them is with like hair or like fashion or whatnot within kids so usually puberty
kind of ends or we become more adult like by 16 to 18 years old as very very general but that's
when you can start using more adult traits within them these are the general things that you want
to keep in mind when it comes to drawing women this last one is more like for both women and
men let's talk about proportions women tend to be approximately six and a half to seven heads tall
so adult women are six and a half to seven heads tall you can also say that women's faces can be
narrower if you so want them to be that again is like up to you though face shapes are not
gender exclusive in general women's faces tend to be a bit softer but that isn't always the
case and then the neck can kind of start from here come down usually they're they end about
here so it's about a third the size of the head the shoulder width of a woman's body tends to be
one and a half to two heads wide yep so if i take the head and flip it kind of on its side
if i do like this magic flip it directly on its side and i kind of make it like one and a half ish
wide like that that tends to be the shoulder width for women so that's about one and a half to two
heads right so adult woman is six and a half seven heads tall the shoulder width is one and a half to
two heads wide where the chest can be drawn with a teardrop midsection the direct center of like
heads tends to be where your hips are so six and a half divided by two is 3.25 so that's three and
a quarter so that's approximately here-ish so this will be where the torso ends and the top of the
hips and legs will start down here i may actually need to make this seven heads tall because this is
a little bit too short for the type of head that i drew so let's make this it's approximate so that's
three and a half then that feels better okay so once we get to this portion we can start with
the chest or the torso these right here you're called your trapezius trapezius your trap trap yes
people just call them traps that's like that it's a muscle between your shoulders and whatnot
for me with like a simplified version of the body i tend to draw it as like the rib cage opening
it's like mixed with the trapezoids so it's like i've mixed the clavicle which is this
little bone if you touch right below your neck right now you can feel like a little hard like
straight line that goes between your shoulders that's your clavicle so i've kind of mixed the
clavicle traps and the the chest all together to create this like kind of amalgamation of a rib
cage form really what you would do is you would have like an oval rib cage opening you would draw
the trapezius first and the clavicle in there as well if you'd like to support the channel in the
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as this sort of like trapezoid partial rib cage shape up to you how you decide to do that though
shoulders eye for beginners i tend to remain them as circles and then again if you wanted to draw on
the chest you could start with a circle added with teardrops the thing with drawing a woman's chest
is that you really shouldn't just draw them as circles when you draw them as just circles it's
not gonna turn out correct the way that i've seen it described is like if you took a water balloon
and like pinned a portion of it and let it hang off the wall that's the kind of gravity that you
want to think of so if you kind of have start up kind of near the clavicle you bring it down
that tends to be how you can draw a woman's chest next portion you can do the stomach stomach or
like the middle of the torso you can draw it as like a circle it's like the easiest way to do it
you can apply the hourglass shape afterwards but this kind of gives you a nice if you so choose to
do the hourglass not every woman is built with an hourglass let me just put that out there not every
woman is built with an hourglass not every man is built with the upside down triangle and then
usually you can have like the belly button kind of around here with that you can kind of cut off
the bottom of this circle and then start on the pelvis which you can draw as an underwear shape
remember like we mentioned before the hips tend to be equal or wider than the rib cage the rib
cage at its widest point would be like here okay yeah so let's just bring that out a little bit
wider let's do that the best way that you can draw this right is that generally with women
the hips can be drawn like this and then with men the hips can be drawn kind of like this so
it's a difference in the angle that you draw the hips because men tend to be straight up and down
they tend to use a lot more rectangles than women do you use a lot more curves i break this rule
all the time i do nothing but break this rule but it is the general rule that's up there torso ends
halfway through height because remember when we are drawing bodies generally we measure the entire
body with heads right so we use it in reference to the head that is attached to the body that tends
to be why people draw heads first before anything else let's move on to the legs then let me draw
legs i say this all the time anything in pairs should be drawn in tandem so if i draw one thigh
which you can kind of draw as this almost trapezoidy shape i'm gonna have to draw the other
one at the exact same time because what this does is it allows for you to get the proportions equal
to each other i say to do this when you draw eyes as well this is how you get better at drawing eyes
without having to flip the thing copy and flip it over if you draw them in tandem this helps you
do them with the same proportions so your thighs and your calves are equal in length
you can usually do a little coffin shape for your knees an elongated hexagon but let's talk
about the calves calves are a very very specific shape they're a coffin shape but they're very very
specific the outer muscle is higher than the inner muscle so this is your calf this is the outside
inside alright so the outer muscle of your calf is taller than the inside and usually your thigh
is approximately the same length as your calf so keep that in mind is that your outer muscle will
be taller than the inner one here's a fun little thing for you by the way your foot length is equal
to your forearm length and your head height do something for me if you're flexible enough put
your foot right up next your face if you're not flexible enough put your foot right up next to
your forearm notice they're the exact same length that's how you know how long your feet should be
feet can also be drawn really really simply with four shapes it is a circle a trapezoid a triangle
and a semi-circle i don't use this method anymore but it is a really really easy way to draw a foot
in any angle because if you stack those shapes differently then you get the foot in a bunch of
different angles it's really really nice so let's just do that on our little doll over here let me
draw on the arms as well your elbow will generally come around your belly button so around here-ish
and then your forearms will kind of come down which is also more of like a coffin shape but
this time both sides are generally equal to one another in height and then you have
your hands where the fingertips ended about halfway to a third two thirds down the thigh
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