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Hi this is Craig for Expert Village again. The next segment is how to draw the human
body in proportion and scale. The universal scale is what I'll be talking about. It's
the seven or eight and a half heads scale. I'll get into it and I'll describe the whole
thing about how to use your basic first sketch of a head, of just a simple circle. And using
that to base your entire sketch of the human body and I'll talk about muscles a little
bit and how they work and how you would sketch them real loosely. This is more of an underlay,
it's nothing that's finished. It's more of just to get started, this is how to practice,
this is simply for practice and for like doing underlay?s so when you want to draw something
that's more finished looking you can use this as a reference or like use that for underneath
that skin and basically just trace over it. For this type of stuff it's very difficult
at times so it's good to actually go out to maybe a bookstore and get maybe references.
I recommend this book: How to Draw Marvel Comics. It's very old school, it's by Stanley,
if you know who he is. He's the originator. It's very old but it's got everything you
need to know. There's not a better one out there. Go with the original on it. So that's
the section and let's get started. So the section is how to draw the human body in scale
or relative scale. So there's multiple theories on how to draw the human body. Any advice
I can give you is, if you really want to get into this stuff, take a live drawing class.
You can go to them for free, but basically how we're going to start, we're going to start
with the basics. I'm not going to get into drawing the face or the fingers or the feet.
That's a whole separate, whole other thing. So basically we're going to start with a human
head. Remember I was telling in some of my earlier sessions, talking about practicing
your oval shapes? So your oval shape is basically a head tilted straight up. So I'm going to,
basically, how you build a body is you draw a head and then you use the head to keep your
body in scale. So let's just draw a head, just a regular oval right there, OK. And usually
how the scaling works, it's, the body is eight and half heads tall. That's kind of your average.
Other people will tell you that it's six, but depending on what you want to draw, if
you want to draw more like hero looking people, more comic book looking, it'll give you more
of a bigger is better look.