Beginner Loomis Body Question
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K. C.
Hey guys, just starting out learning how to draw the female body / torso and had a question.
I built the mannequin frame using the Loomis method, but I'm getting stuck on how to add the bulk on top of the skeleton/foundation, to take it from the frame stage to getting the female likeness with features.
Any suggestions? Looking for step by step references, please forward along any of interest, thanks!
Or if someone would be so kind as to draw on top of my mannequin to show me where the contours would go, it would be most helpful!
Hey K. C.
There are many ways to add volume to the Loomis mannequin. Loomis doesn't really go into much detail about this, he just kind of adds the figure on top.
The easiest way is to use shapes over the skeleton such as tubes, boxes, and spheres. This will give you dimension and perspective to the different body parts.
Then as you learn anatomy, you can add that on top of the mannequin. I did a sketch to show you what I mean :)
Ironically, I just saw that this was added. Since we were talking about the book, I thought it might be something you're interested in:
https://www.proko.com/course/introduction-to-figure-construction/overview
Steve, thanks so much, this is very helpful! Yes I find it strange that Loomis (as well as many online tutorials) does not cover this in a step by step way. But adding shapes over top of the mannequin frame as you suggest, then continuing with anatomy sounds like a great way to go.
I’ll try this out, thanks again for the kind support!
