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Okay! Here we go...
Keep in mind, this is more or less just the way I do things, just to illustrate, feel free to practice other methods or techniques on your own.
I was thinking, perhaps instead of just basic shapes, you should start out with something a little more structured. I don't know how much it'll help, but getting practice with it might help balance your figures out more.
This is simply an example of how I tend to start drawing human figures, especially if the poses are complicated. A lot of people like to do theirs differently, but this is what mine tend to look like.
Now, since in this image of him, we're going for something of a grumpy mood, our figure is going to be slouched forward. I've pointed an arrow to where the "spine" is blocked out in this picture.
Another handy thing to do, by the way, if you're having trouble figuring out how far the elbows go down, they're usually just a tad bit lower than the bottom of the rib cage, assuming the arm is at rest at your side.
To find out how far his stomach should stick out and where, I'm going to show you something I do sometimes when I'm having trouble getting a 3D object to look right at an angle. Sometimes if you draw a profile of the object you're trying to draw, like I did with my blue lines, you can use it as a center line (just make sure you take perspective into account and make it slightly thinner than it is in the little side-sketch)
Finally, you can use half circles to block out the volume like I did in green, and then you can use the edges of those circles to find out where the outline of the body should be like I did in purple.
A similar technique was done with the head, mostly the same principle.
And then the finished sketch. I made the head a little too big in the first sketch, so I shrunk it down to make it look slightly more normal (at least, more normal for me, my heads tend to be huge...).
I hope this helps.
Wow, thank you! This is going to be so helpful! Your help is really appreciated!
