How To: Draw a Person Part l

Can you draw the human figure? You might have answered that question with a simple,  No or you might have thought, Do stick figures count? (Sorry, but stick figures do not count). Lot's of people, sorry, MOST people (including me) have a hard time drawing the human figure. I have learned a little bit and so I'm going to help enlighten you with the basics!

So these are the supplies that you'll need:
1 pencil
1 piece of paper
An image of someone you want to draw (optional)
(If you are a perfectionist like me, you'll need a big eraser too!)


First draw a circle. This is going to be the top part of the head. Draw a line about two thirds of the way down your circle.

Then draw the jawline. If you are drawing a male, make it more boxy. If you are drawing a female, make it smoother.

Draw a little circle under the jaw line. This will be your neck.

Now draw a wide ellipse (a wide oval). This is your shoulders. If you are drawing a female, you want the oval to be about two heads wide and if you are drawing broader shoulders (for a male) you want to make the shoulders between two and a half heads wide to three heads wide for really broad shoulders.

Now at the end of your ellipse, draw two little circles. This is the start of your arm/shoulder.

Draw the upper part of your arm on each side. Just draw straight lines. (If you want something more complex, draw the muscles in the arm. Guys arm's normally are more defined by muscle, but girls have a little too. Right now I'm just doing the basics so I won't go into detail about that right now. I will later though) Now draw the upper torso (we'll come back to the rest of the arms latter). For a female you will have the bottom of the chest 'tapper in' and for a male, it goes in a little, but not much. 

To draw the stomach, draw a circle under the chest/upper torso.

Now we are going to draw the lower torso/hip. We are going to draw a shape like a trapezoid, but it will be a lot smoother. Females have more shape so the lower torso starts smaller, and ends wider. Males lower torso is more like a square, not too much like a trapezoid, but a little bit like one.

Now to the legs. First draw two circles under the lower torso. This is the start of your thighs.

Next we will draw the thighs. Start at the circle, and then have your line come in a little bit towards the bottom. Where your line stops, draw a circle. These circles are your knees.

Now to your calfs. These are just two lines from your knee. If you want to you can make them have muscle tone but I'll do that later. For your ankles, just draw two circles.

For your feet, I don't really know how to explain the shape. You want to draw something like a circle, but you want to show your toes too so, in the front of your circle draw a little bit of a diagonal line.

Okay, the shape of the legs are done, so let's go back to the arms. Draw a circle at the bottom of your upper arm. This circle is your elbow.

From the circles draw your forearm. Your forearm should be about as long as your upper arm and should get smaller towards the bottom. The forearm should reach about half way down from the lower torso. 

At the end of your forearm, draw a circle on both sides. This is your wrist.

Now for the hands. We are not going into full detail today, so just draw them as an oval cut in half. I'm going to have my female hold something and the male is going to have his thumb in his pocket. You don't have to do this I just want it to look more interesting. 

This is the shape of the hand (the one in the center) that you draw.
The two hands on the outside are what your hands might look
like later. Sorry, these hands are really bad, I did them late last night.

As our last step, connect all of the shapes and erase the lines inside. Leave the line on the head because we will use that later for the eyes.

Erasing

Well, there you have it! How to draw a person part l. Next time we will continue with the face, then hair, and clothes. Luckily for you guys you do not have to wait a whole two weeks to see my next post! From now on, it's only going to be a week of waiting!!! Also, if you would like to see another blog with some great tips for art, look at my friend Martina's blog. She has some tutorials too!

See ya soon!

All photos were taken by me

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