Learning human proportions

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Hello,

I wanted to learn drawing characters so I’m studying human bodies. I tried watching tutorials but I could never get proper results. Things changed when I took a step back and started learning only about proportions.

So I started to watch tutorials about proportions specifically, but the feedback I got was that the puppets I drew were “too broad” and “too bulky”. So I started to study from real references and as it turns out the models I’ve encountered have 8,5 heads and not 8. So I made a Krita template that should in theory help me study bodies.

I’m sticking to simple poses for now, where I can see the body up front. And I have no idea if this is working or the right way to go. And if the proportions are correct.

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What do you people think about the method and the results?

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Regarding methods, I think that people ultimately should do what works for them. I think anatomy is better taught by going in-depth, and then abstracting away shapes, and not the other way around, but that is my method that may not work well for others.

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