Human Proportions – Average Figure

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Human Proportions – Average Figure

Lesson by

Stan Prokopenko

in Figure Drawing Fundamentals

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Assignments 71Lesson NotesDownloads 3

Study Richer's average figure proportions

Study Richer's average figure proportions. Copy them. Then, put the reference away and see if you can draw them from memory!

Dave S

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My notes on proportions. I was able to do about 70% from memory, then rewatched the video, fixed a couple things and added the measurements I missed.

May Berry

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18d

Here's my attempt

Melanie Scearce

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17d

Your proportions in the torso are spot on, nice job. The legs are a bit long. I made notes to show where the knees and feet should be in proportion. If you like your figures to have longer legs, go for it! The key is to make it a conscious decision.

Filippo Galli

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3mo

Samuel Sanjaya

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6mo

Figure drawing, Ignore the note that is not red, it's just a way to test whether my thought and ticks have an effect. I wonder if I asses my self correctly ? Since self checking like this, there could be a mistake that is overlooked or misunderstood I hope I can get some feedback and critiques on these. Thank you

@tuanlinh_le93

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5mo

first of all I like that you actually put back your drawing on top of the refference. That's the quickest way to see where it is lacking. And by the look of it you already saw most of the problems to improve next time. For your problem, I think your biggest problem right now is you focus too much on the smaller curves and that make you missed the bigger flow. The 5th one is your best, because I can see the right side is beautifully described with a big flow curve and the pinch on the left to balance it. But all the other you can see that you look at the smaller changes in the contour too much and miss the over all flow. I suggest you try to do what you did for the 5th one for the other, find a big curve that describe the contour the best, and then modify it a little bit for the smaller changes.

Malik Helps

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7mo

Hi, so I just did my first drawing for the human proportions measurement video I am using hilroy notebook which is 26.7cm x 20.3cm. I tried to make the figure reach the whole page, but I think that it was too much. I am going to go over it with a pig ma micron 05. I would like some help or advice on this project.

Rachel Dawn Owens

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7mo

Nice start. I think the ribs feel a little concave. I like to use an egg and mini skirt shape for the torso. This gives the figure more 3d form. Hope this helps.

Billy Morris

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8mo

Forgive the bad photo used an hb and just couldn't get it to come out well in any of the lighting setups I tried. Left is reference right is memory. I think I'm getting the proportions to click into memory. Not sure how much at this point I should be worrying about how well I am able to draw the skeleton itself for the diagram though.

hArtMann

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1yr

Left is from reference and right one from memory. Rhythms came in handy for the imagination one.

Jack

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1yr

This is my first try at Richer! The left is from reference, and the second is from memory.

Daniel Wood

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1yr

Richer studies! First one from reference, second one from memory.

Samuel Sanjaya

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1yr

the left is copying and the right one is from memory. I hope I can get some feedbacks and critiques.

Vera

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2yr

Hello. I copied the proportions and then I tried to draw them without the reference. Advice and critiques are appreciated.

@kotka

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2yr

I like Richer's system. These proportions are very recognizable because most of us don't look like idealistic heroes. Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the Russian school also use overlap at the hips? The second drawing is from memory, I tend to make a lot of mistakes in the width (just don't feel it's as easy to feel as the figure lengthwise), so if you have any genius tips on how to become more accurate/consistent, please share. My memory figures skipped leg day and are really broad...

Marco Sordi

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2yr

2023/3/14. Good afternoon everybody. Here's another study of the human body (female figure back view) from Patrick Jones's "The anatomy of Style". Thanks.

squeen

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2yr

NIce one. Thanks for posting it. I did not know that about the skull/nose height.

Marco Sordi

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2yr

2023/3/13. Good morning everybody. Here's again average female figure study (side view). Thanks.

Marco Sordi

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2yr

2023/3/8. Good morning everybody. Here's my study of the proportions in the female torso. Thanks.

squeen

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2yr

The thighs to pelvis ratio looks off to me. Remember that the hip bone is a offset from the femur's L-shape in the socket of the pelvis. Sometimes the thigh muscle goes out further than the hip, but that looks a bit too much.

@elkad

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2yr

Richer studies, the first set is from reference the second is from memory. Any feedback is appreciated, cheers!

@opaqueapple

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2yr

Hi all, i finished some Richer Average proportion studies. They go from the order: front, back, female variant. and the final 3 attached are recalls of the actual proportion study, Any feedback would be much appreciated.

Octavivs

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2yr

Tip for applying proportions during non-studies. Do thousands of quick gesture drawings. Do them loose. Do them without fear. You'll build a feeling of when things look right or not. If say on a specific drawing you can't figure out why something doesn't look right and it's really bugging you, that'd be a good time bust out another study on how to measure the proportions.

Tono VZ

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2yr

Its very important to keep studying the proportions, wish you the best friend! Keep it going!

@civon

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2yr

i copied the measure units from Richers porportions & attempted to get proportions to feel correct. any advice?

@fooze

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3yr

Hello! here are my proportions assignments. if you have any feedback/advice to make me better at proportions, please feel free to tell me so! 😁

Matt Abery

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3yr

Hi Somewhere along the line I have made a mistake and it doesnt aling with the Richer head height unit spreadsheet, that's why the female version is incomplete. I'll post it to see if anyone would like to give me some feedback as im abit lost.

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