Q&A for How to Draw a Body

Oil paints, acrylic paints, and watercolor paints have different chemical compositions. So the secondary colors that emerge will be different. For instance, if you mix cerulean blue instead of ultramarine blue with red and yellow, you will get a different color.

Close the tubes and keep the caps clean. Store them away from heat. Or else the pigments and the binder will separate. A lot of medium, like linseed oil, will come out when you open the tubes.

The chest appears less muscular and is smaller, as are the legs. Young children usually don't have sharp chins.

For separate sized shoulders, use different-sized circles to help draw the width of the body. For the chest, draw a small hill above the shoulder wire frame, and draw a smooth way down, making sure it isn't too long.

You draw male body parts like you would draw anything else: do research, have a picture of a male body for reference, sketch guidelines, draw over them, and then erase them so you can make it more in your own style.

Try using lines and measurements. After you put your first eye in, use a light pencil and a ruler to draw lines across the top and bottom of the eye. Then, measure the width of the eye. The inside of the second eye should begin one eye's width from the first one.

You could tilt the paper a bit and draw the head. Then you may draw the body as shown straight.

Keep it flowy and use light, repeating lines. Try to hold your hand farther from the tip of the pencil to make it easier. For curly hair, add some small loops, then keep repeating it and refining it.

Be careful not to smudge it. Use good color pencils and make sure you erase the pencil when you outline with pen. Make sure the ink is dry too.

As the article states, start with shapes. Kneecaps should be small circles with lines should connect to them. (Think of the circle as joints.) Men's legs are typically more muscular, while female legs are soft and curvy. Just keep working with the shapes!

There are good tips in the wikiHow articles Draw a Hand and Draw Realistic Hands .

If someone has breasts, odds are the shape will affect how the clothes, such as a t-shirt, fit and fall on them. You don't have to be super detailed if you're going to add clothes, but it can help sometimes to have the basic anatomy there before you do fabrics on top of it.