Torso - Front
Mmm, six-pack...
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*wipes drool* Okay, so now that you've learned the basics (using shapes to create the human form, using a "skeleton" to determine a pose, the basic proportions of an adult human), it's time to move on to our first lesson: torsos. Yes, that torso is cool and all, but how do you draw something just as neat?
Firstly, you'd need to know how the torso is shaped. Below are several muscle layouts for the front side of a torso. The green one is marked with red to indicate bones that are not covered by any muscle. I'm not going to pretend to be smart and give you the names for every single bone and muscle, so that is why there's a pretty colorful rainbow chart for identifying individual muscles.
Muscle Layout
The six-pack (or really, eight-pack) is colored in four different shades of red to show how many rows there are. The naval, or belly button, is located between the third and fourth rows.
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To start off the torso, I first draw three circles to mark the bendy areas. In this case three circles represent the shoulders (two small ones) and the waist (big one). |
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After that, I draw a line to represent the spine, or posture of the person I am drawing. Drawing a spine when starting out a picture is also very, very helpful, as it shows motion as well as pose. |
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Next comes the ribcage. You don't have to draw the actual ribcage unless you're drawing a skeleton or a zombie or some ridiculously skinny celebrity. Teardrop shapes are used for the shoulder muscles and a "V" is drawn for the muscles in the neck. At this stage I also fill in the waist and add the hips. |
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Draw it out! Use the muscle layouts above if you ever need help figuring out what goes where. Now, I know that not everyone's ripped like that, but for the purpose of teaching muscle locations, all the "models" on this site are going to be muscley. |
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You can also use shading to define the torso rather than lines. Don't forget the nipples! |
BreastsRegarding women and breasts... Please note that a woman's breasts are not made of muscle. Women with muscular chests wouldn't even have breasts (those are fake, by the way...) because those jubblies are actually made of fat, not muscle. |
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