How to draw a girl in full growth, respecting the proportions

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

For some reason, everyone who is suddenly flooded with a thirst for drawing begins to carry out his plans precisely from the image of a girl. The drawing is often far from perfect, and all because a person is barely familiar not only with anatomy, but also with the principles of building the human body and face. Meanwhile, this knowledge is very important, especially for a novice artist.

But in this article I will not delve into anatomical details, but will talk about the most important techniques for building a proportional figure of a girl. Drawn ladies can excite the imagination no less than live ones, so at this stage you only need a blank sheet of paper, a simple hard pencil and a soft eraser.

Before you draw a girl, you need to schematically outline her proportions. For ease of understanding, let's take an exactly standing figure as an example. So, for starters, we draw a kind of “skeleton” or “framework”: having drawn the head in the form of an ellipse, we draw a vertical line from the center of its “chin”. She will servebuilding guide. To make the figure proportional, you need to know that the head of an adult "fits" in the body seven times. Therefore, before you draw a girl in full growth, you must first note the height of the head. This is done simply: attach a pencil to the drawing so that the edge of its stylus is on the same level with the top of the head, and your fingers are on the level with the future chin.

Having thus fixed the height of the head, divide the line going down into seven segments equal to it. Now in more detail about the resulting “scale”: at the level of the first segment should be the chest, at the level of the second - the waist, the third - the lower part of the thighs, the fourth and fifth - the legs to the knees, the sixth and seventh - the legs below the knees to the ankle bone. The image of the foot requires an additional segment, half as long as the main one.

Having received such a scheme, we proceed to the next step in solving the problem of how to draw a girl. Now we need to outline the limbs. To do this, stepping back from the head a little down, we outline the shoulder girdle using a horizontal line. We mark the waist and the line of the hips with exactly the same segments. Since we are drawing a girl, it will be absolutely natural if the shoulder line is wider than the waist line, but narrower than the hip line. From the schematic shoulder girdle, we draw the lines of future hands: the elbows should be at a level between the third and fourth segments, the fingertips - at a level between the fourth and fifth. The beginning of the legs should fall directly on the fourth segment.

When the "skeleton" is ready, you can start "building meat", that is, drawing a full-fledged body. The "skeleton" will serve as a guide so that both halves of the body are the same in width. Of course, when drawing, you need to take into account that both the arms and legs, and the whole body, have a certain shape, and the face and head also require a separate construction. But that's a topic for another article. I hope the above description of how to draw a girl, together with the pictures given for better perception, will help you quickly orient yourself, and in the future you will be able to create more complex images of people. Having "stuffed" your hand and developed your eye, you will become more confident in your abilities, which will allow you to depict the human body without the need to draw a preliminary "wireframe" sketch.