Hey, Sorry If This Is A Bother Or Anything But Do You Have Advice Or Tutorials On Drawing Torsos/legs?

Hey, sorry if this is a bother or anything but do you have advice or tutorials on drawing torsos/legs?

These are the shapes I break the human body into to sketch poses. A good practice for helping figure them out is to take some photos and trace the torso beans over them.

For getting foreshortening/movement, it helps to place your anchor points. For the torso, the best ones are the collar bone, the bottom of the ribs [collar bone+ribs is the top of the bean], and the pelvic bone [the bottom of the torso bean].

Where the shoulders/collar bone are pointing dictate where the top of the torso is facing. Where the pelvic bone is pointing dictates where the stomach/groin is facing.

The weird little leg S shape uses the femur bone and the back of the calf muscle to define the S shape. I find it also helps to put the knees in there, so you remember that awkward little bump the knees make.

If you're of the habit of making your own critters/building humanoids with weird proportional, figuring out the anchor points above for those proportions often helps in placing your critter anatomy as well.

Hopefully!! This helps!

[All stock photos are from Adorkastock! I encourage you to check out their stock poses they're good!]

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how did u learn how to anatomy pls help

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do you have any methods for bodily proportions and making poses less stiff with drawing? Ahshsjaja I’ve actually been super dissatisfied wit

I’m not totally confident in my grasp on anatomy but a few tips I find helpful are that most body parts and limbs have a sort of…lopsided rhombus shape to it, and while I should do more traditional figure drawing studies, I feel like getting into arcane and dc has helped me improve my anatomy because I subconsciously take notes of their poses and proportions while looking at them. Like, how far apart did they place the elbow from the waist? How much of the shoulder is the head covering in this foreshortened pose? Etc etc.

Then I pull that knowledge from my brain or find refs when I make my own pose. So yeah if you’re like me and are kind of lazy when it comes to doing figure drawing, look at other artists and how they do anatomy. Usually I have more fun with that bc I like to see how they stylize certain limbs or features

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