How To Draw Female Bodies Ch 2 Part 3

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1: Legs Closed
2: The knees make round silhouettes.
3: Body on the other side
4: Differences With the M Shape
5: Legs Closed
6: M Shape
7: The upper body ends getting raised a bit, causing the line along the leg connections to be lowered.
8: Lowest part of the upper body.
9: Drawing Process
10: Outline of the entire body. Start with the idea of the pose.
11: Draw the upper body.
12: Roughly draw out the legs.
13: Finish the linework.

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1: Squatting, One Knee Up, Kneeling
2: (right of 1) Focus on the representation of the thighs, calves, and knees.
3: Squatting - 45° Angle
4: The curves of the thighs get pronounced.
5: The roundness of the kneecap. It gives the knees a rough feeling, so it’s often not drawn.
6: The bulge of the calf
7: Sketch
8: Lines used to help determine the height of the leg connections
9: Lines used to help determine the knee placements
10: Squatting - Side
11: Makes a round silhouette.
12: Make sure you accurately portray the length up to the knee.
13: Knee Position
14: The heel reaches to about under the butt.
15: A sketch. The knees ended up being a bit short, and the thighs ended up being too thick, so they need to be corrected.
16: An example of an error. The knee is mostly round when looking at it from the side.

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1: One Knee Up
2: The curved line that wraps around the upper thigh
3: Draw the bone lines that appear on both sides of the knee joint.
4: Sketch
5: The outline of the knee should feel like a rectangle with round corners.
6: Thigh outline
7: Center of the knee
8: The shin will appear round.
9: The thigh resting on the calf. The round line represents the bulge that is produced.
10: Region hidden by thigh.
11: Underwear
12: Kneeling
13: Curvature of the thigh
14: The thick region of the knee
15: Calf
16: Butt region
17: The hem of the underwear neatly wraps around the leg joints.

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1: Bone Structure and Leg Lines
2: (right of 1) Let’s take a good look at the representation of legs, mainly the knees, shins, and thighs.
3: (below 1) Knee Representation
4: Femur
5: Patella. Kneecap.
6: Tibia. Also known as shinbone.
7: (left of 6) Fibula
8: (right of 6) The simple type where the femur is represented with just a little crease.
9: The type where the side of the bone is drawn.
10: The type where the lower edge is drawn.
11: Knee Joint Diagram (below circle in lower left of page)
12: The patella is right about in the center.
13: The top of the tibia is mostly flat.
14: The fibula connects behind it.
15: The type where the upper and lower surrounding edges are drawn.
16: The type where both sides are clearly drawn in.
17: The type where the entire bone is encompassed into somewhat of a rectangle shape.

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1: Relaxed Pose With Both Knees Raised
2: Top of fibula
3: X-Ray Diagram of Bent Knee
4: The dips in the sides of the knee and shin are emphasized.
5: Character Skeleton X-Ray Diagram
6: Knees, Shins, and Ankles
7: Right Leg
8: Dips in here.
9: The center portion here juts out.
10: Fibia
11: Left Leg
12: Ankle
13: Drawing Process
14: Sketch the overall image, flesh out the body, then flesh out the legs.

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1: Relaxed Pose With One Knee Raised
2: Left Side
3: (below 2) The patella does not move.
4: (right of 3) Knee
5: (right of 4) Since the bones are covered with tendons and muscles, there is a gap between the bone outline and the skin.
6: Ankle
7: Although the femur had a curved shape, most drawings have the femur going straight down from the hip joint to the knee, with the leg shape being fleshed out later.
8: Character Skeleton X-Ray Diagram
9: Reference - Use these lines if you want to make the thighs thinner

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1: Right Side
2: Character Skeleton X-Ray Diagram
3: The connection between the thighs(femurs), knees(kneecaps), and shin areas.
4: Femur
5: The end of the femur makes up the general framework of the knee.
6: Kneecap
7: The bone stretching down from the knee makes a protrusion down at the ankle.

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1: Kneeling With Knees Spread Out
2: Character Skeleton X-Ray Diagram
3: Draw the knee outline while keeping the edges of the bone and kneecap in mind.
4: How the bones look when the knee is bended
5: Normal position
6: Bent position
7: Side view
8: Guidelines for leg shape(curved surface) and knee placement
9: Thigh region
10: Knee region
11: (right of 8) Leg connections
12: Ellipses meant for capturing dimensionality of thighs
13: Ellipses meant for capturing knee joint placement

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1: Kneeling
2: Character Skeleton X-Ray Diagram
3: From a 45° angle, the knee will have more of a rectangular silhouette.
4: Rounding out the corners
5: Side view of bones
6: Bend
7: The knee has a round silhouette from the side.

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1: Drawing Ankles and Feet
2: (right of 1) Draw while taking a good look at how the feet connect with the body and legs in various poses.
3: (below 2) Think of the feet as triangular building blocks.
4: (below 1) Defining Characteristics of Feet
5: (below 4) 1. The silhouette of the toes changes.
6: (below 5) Top of foot
7: Heel
8: Sole
9: Toes
10: When looking at the toes of someone in front of you
11: (below 3) A mountain shape with the index toe being the summit.
12: The toe joints will form a curved line.
13: Sole
14: Heel
15: When looking down at your own feet
16: Bottom of foot
17: 2. The ankle position while the foot is on the ground will change depending on which side the angle is from
18: High position
19: Arch of foot. It caves in.
20: Inner side of body
21: Outer side of body
22: Lies flat alongside the floor.
23: Low position
24: 3. The body’s height will change when standing on the tip of the toes
25: The character’s legs will appear longer.
26: Right leg, inner side
27: (below 26) One would actually literally stand on the tip of their toes when performing ballet, but most people would stand on their toes like this.
28: Region that makes contact with ground
29: Rises
30: From behind
31: (Right foot)
32: Clearly draw the little gap that shows up in the region that touches the ground.

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1: Drawing Feet and Ankles in Various Poses
2: (right of 1) Let’s look at the process of drawing a character’s feet.
3: (below 1) Standing Pose
4: Front
5: (below 2) Rough sketch. Roughly draw out the general idea of the ankle shape.
6: Draw the feet by combining shapes together, the connection part should feel like a hook.
7: Reference - Form Model
8: Roughly draw out the toes.
9: The heels are slightly raised. The feet are in a diagonal direction as well, so fine-tune the ankles while keeping in mind the feet aren’t completely straight up.
10: (bottom left of 9) The area from the ankle down is facing straight forward.
11: (left of 10) 2. Finish up the outline by filling in things like the hair and face.
12: (left of 11) 1. Rough sketch. Draw the general idea of the entire body’s pose.
13: 45° Angle
14: (right of 13) Draw the silhouette of the feet while trying to keep it in line with the overall image of the body.
15: Roughly draw in the toes.
16: Detail the toes and finish up by drawing the ankle lines.
17: (bottom left of page) The ankles tilt upwards towards the inner side, so remember not to make them line up perfectly when the feet are lined up together.

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1: Drawing Legs From Various Angles
2: Standing Pose (slightly upturned angle)
3: Walking (side angle)
4: (below 2) The character will look like it has more of a stable footing if the feet are drawn a bit bigger.
5: (right of 4) Standing Pose (downwards angle)
6: (bottom left of page) Try to make sure both feet are the same size.
7: (below 3) Walking (backside)
8: (left of 7) It’s important to make sure the heels jut out from behind the ankles.
9: (below 7) Achilles Tendon
10: (below 8) Put a shadow under the heel.
11: A line representing the underside of the foot.