If you want to draw a body sketch out the wireframe of the human body including a circular head and pelvis an oval chest and stick arms and legs. A good understanding of the structure of the body and how its muscles bones and fatty parts interweave can help make your drawings convincing.
If you look at an artist like harry carmean you can see that while he sometimes is only drawing counters of the body.
How to get better at drawing bodies.
With that being said you dont always have to actually draw spheres and boxes on the page.
For proportions if your characters arm is at the side of the body the wrist starts at the crotch and the hand goes to around the middle of the thigh.
Link to part one.
Check how to draw books find tutorials online or use a reference picture of the position youd like.
Dont draw the muscles as a series of lines.
Continuing this series im introducing a simple tool that should make building and posing your characters a lot more interesting.
Use that frame as a guide to fill in more details like the arms legs hands neck and feet.
However try not to get bogged down with the minutiae of memorizing countless bones and muscles or of trying to include them all in every drawing.
They take much practice to draw.
Draw them as sculpted spheres boxes and cylinders.
Excessive detail can drown out a good figure drawing.
It may help to have a drawing of the human body nearby to use as a reference point.
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