Learn everything there is to know about drawing people with this step-by-step guide.
Tips for all body types and human figures are included.
Too bad I have no artistic talent at all!
Daniella Urdinlaiz
Well, lucky for you, Im a professional illustrator and Ive made a tutorial that can help.
The below step-by-step drawing instructions are for anyoneeven beginners.
If youre interested in learning how to draw realistic people, youve come to the right place.
However, utilizing drawing tutorials is one of the easiest ways to practice drawing humans.
The tips mentioned here are widely applicable, ranging from drawing cartoon people to emulating more realistic drawings.
Im choosingThe Birth Of Venus(Nascita di Venere)by Sandro Botticelli.
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And Im adding my own spin to it and giving Venus a banging plus-size bod!
Alright, now lets focus on studying our subject.
If you notice not a lot of lines are straight.
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Humans stand pretty funny, huh?
Step Three
Now lets begin with the figure drawing lessons!
It should land inside the lines you made!
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Step Four
Ok, here comes the top of your torso, or your chest.
We are also using an oval here.
It should land right underneath your head to position the upper body correctly.
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Step Five
Draw a circle underneath your chest.
This will be your hip area.
With the female body, the chest is usually a little narrower than the hips.
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With the male body, the chest is (usually) bigger.
Step Seven
Draw in your knee circles.
Our Venus has her legs up against each other, hence the kissing knee circles.
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Step Eight
Time to draw feet!
The circles made here will include the heels, the balls, and the toes.
Step Nine
Connect the dots.
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And by dots, I mean those leg circles you just made.
Step Ten
Do the same treatment to your arms.
Note where your shoulder circles land as well as your elbow circles.
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Elbows are usually level to where your waist is.
Step Eleven
Get that neck in there now!
Step Twelve
Ok now heres the sexy part: draw in those breast circles!
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They should be teardrop-shaped.
Step Thirteen
Im now drawing some lines on her face to measure where her facial features land.
Step Fourteen
Now, were going to roughly fill in the blanks.
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By that, I mean draw the outline of your body parts.
Step Fifteen
Your first inked lines should make an appearance now.
you’ve got the option to finally draw your final head.
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Step Eighteen
Those shoulders are looking good, mama, look at that human figure come together.
Step Nineteen
Draw the arm.
Step Twenty
Then draw hands, always following your skeleton path.
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Step Twenty-One
Repeat for your other arm.
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While were up here, lets get those final breasticles in there, too.
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Danger: curves ahead!
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Draw in those lines from the waist to the hips.
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Draw the outside of your legs.
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Now, draw your interior leg lines.
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Twenty-Six
Heres a foot!
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And another foot.
Some good-looking feet, if you ask me!
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But, like, not in a weird way.
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Now that things are officially weird, lets draw that crotch.
This should be a V or U shape, or something in between.
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Twenty-Nine
Draw all those details, folds, wrinkles, indents, etc.
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Are you ready?
Erase your skeleton lines!
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Ok now Im awake.
I roughly draw them in first because we all know I aint perfect.
*Remember to add a little extra room where needed.
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Now, add in that nice inked clothing line.
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Erase those rough lines.
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Now youre going to erase the parts of your body that are covered by clothing.
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Are we missing something?
Oh yea, this girls long and flowing locks!
See:Drawing Hair
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Time to clean up any parts of the body covered by hair.
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No idea, dude.
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Slap that background in!!
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And finally, you could add your color.
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A work of farts.
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