we are going to be talking about how to draw men how to work with men's anatomy how to make stuff
feel nice and proportionate so we're going to start with general things to keep in mind so
hips tend to be equal to or less than the width of the rib cage because men tend to have thinner hips
they tend to have more narrow hips compared to a woman because of our pelvic size so with a man
the hips when you draw them tend to be equal to or less than the width of the rib cage is this always
applicable not necessarily but biologically this tends to be the case biologically
men tend to grow muscle easier so even when leaner when the body type is more lean or a little bit
heavier set muscle tends to be more pronounced on a man than a woman muscle growth tends to
come from testosterone i think oh heavens um but because of their added testosterone they tend to
bulk up a little bit easier um so even when a man is a little bit leaner or a little bit heavier set
he will generally still look more muscular than the average woman this does not mean that they are
always super super buff but in general they tend to be a bit more strong looking masculine traits
tend to be more pronounced at age 13 plus and are properly developed at around 16 plus however
with children's anatomy yeah children's anatomy tends to follow the same or similar rules to men
right when we're drawing kids a lot of these are proportional rules like hips tend to be equal to
or less than the rib cage the general straight up and down rectangle that's closer to men than it is
with women like when women hit puberty 13 plus we tend to go through more drastic changes compared
to a man drawing the transition between a kid and an adult tends to be a bit easier going from boy
to man from girl to woman okay proportions how do you measure the body so it looks accurate to
life always measured in relativity that's what i was saying recently so when you're drawing
the body you usually use heads to measure the body and eyes for the face etc right it does
not matter what style you're working in you are using your heads to measure the body if you're
working in anime anime artists all of them know realism anime is a no what's the word
shoot byproduct that was the word anime is a byproduct of realism right it's it comes from
realism i don't know a single professional manga artist professional anime artist who cannot draw
a perfectly realistic human being as well yep so we always measure in relativity men
tend to be seven to seven and a half heads tall eight heads is considered the superman proportion
that used to be the perceived thing because eight heads is considered the idealist's way
of drawing a man more realistically it's seven and seven and a half heads because we do seven
to seven and a half and that's around like five eight or five ten to around six foot six foot
two or something like that because when we have eight heads that tends to be like six foot three
to six foot six kind of in that area right which is like considered like the ideal superhero man
it would be like eight heads tall two heads across the shoulder width that's built built so that used
to be the old way of doing it nowadays it's a little bit more realistic to draw them seven to
seven and a half heads so that's our head tower we draw on the neck we can kind of bring it down
again it's about a one-third of the head height tends to be about the neck and our shoulder width
is one and a half two heads okay so yeah so one and a half to two heads is a shoulder
width so let me take our head i'm gonna be doing like 1.75 heads or something
so again if i take the heads flip them width wise and i just kind of do this magic
yeah something like that that tends to be approximately how you can do them and you
would kind of bring in your trapezius so it curves a little bit more downwards and then we can start
the rib cage around here this is more of the figure drawing person's way of doing it but if you
just kind of want to do the basic shapes you can just draw your rib cage or your upper one as like
a trapezoid with a little cavity on the bottom like that if it's seven and a half heads the hips
will be at 3.75 so this is where the hips will be approximately hips begin halfway so it's about
three and a half to three point seven five heads so again with the hips it's gonna be an underwear
shape but this time the sides of our underwear are gonna be curving in this way and then women
tend to be like this the stomach would be kind of here and then our hips once again if we have the
rib cage which is kind of right here it should be less than or equal to the width of the shoulders
so it'll be approximately like that i break this rule all the time but it is generally what you
want to keep in mind if you'd like to support the channel in the creation of free arts education
become a member on patreon so usually with men you know their bodies tend to curve a little bit more
like this or just go straight downwards they're a bit more rectangular compared to a woman again
very very general so next thing that we're going to be doing is the legs right so anything in pairs
you should do at the same time from this point forward men and women get really really similar
this is why i say that when you are drawing like a man or a woman there are some differences but
the majority of them are very very similar we have our thighs in which we can kind of draw as like a
trapezoids shape kind of like that you can draw your kneecap as a hockey puck which does work
for sure if you're kind of working on a more 2d scale you can work with a coffin because this
kind of works the same way and then again with our calves the outer muscle is taller than the inner
one so we should have a kind of coffin shape but one side will be higher than the other so it'll
be almost like that and generally our thighs tend to be about the same length as our calves
and then you can just kind of have the feet in there which if you just want to
draw a foot like not really worrying too much about it you can do a circle
trapezoid triangle semi-circle and from the side that's a circle trapezoid triangle semi-circle and
that's an easy way that you can draw a foot from any angle you just got to rearrange those shapes
over and over and then once we have our body and our legs and all that fun jazz then we can add in
our arms again if our shoulders are kind of drawn off to the side here you can start them off as
two circles connecting onto the ribcage area then if we draw the upper bicep once again you
can draw it almost like a trapezoid at the top of a baseball bat take the elbow make sure it kind
of aligns with the belly button somewhat lines up with the belly button a bit above bit below
bring your forearms down wrist tends to be right at the hips so then your fingertips can
end around halfway down your thigh it's about like anywhere between a third to two-thirds on
your thigh is where your fingertips tend to end so it tends to be kind of something like that
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