The First, EASY Step To Draw Bodies (For Beginners)

If you struggle to get your characters to feel solid, or even human at all, it's probably because you don't have a base to build your anatomy on. Let's see how to use mannequins to understand to move a figure in space.

TIMESTAMPS
0:27 Proportions
1:44 Simple Mannequin
2:43 Simple Mannequin Key Points
4:12 Organic Mannequin
6:09 Organic Mannequin Key Points
7:38 Summing it up

[turboflare]

Thanks for explaining without sounding like you hate your audience 👍

[sebinoumoreau]

i am a noob, like noob noob regarding drawing.
i've been watching videos to kinda grasp concepts and have a clear starting point.
You, Sir, are, to this date, still the best video I've ever came accross.
This video was a missing part of my own drawing journey puzzle, and I hope more people will come across your content because you deserve it.

[aritradattagupta]

You sir are a genius.

I have watched a lot of videos on anatomy but none of them clicked and few were just straight up condescending and tried to fit in too many things for a beginner. But your video oh my god. This is just perfect. It clicked & made sense and just filled up the gaps in my mental model. Thank you for making this video. This needs more than a million views.

[ThatsValForYa]

the swapping out cylinders for the limbs to boxes has helped me so much. at first i couldnt understand where the top and sides and stuff of the limbs were because it can be hard to tell on images with little contrast between lighting and shading but with practice, using boxes for the limbs, getting the right orientation has become a million times easier. this is one of the best art tutorials i have ever come across, thank you so much!!!

[Guitarantagonist]

Probably the first lesson I've seen that wasn't the most Vague advice, or the most articulate tutorial at 2x speed

[goatcheese]

Man I have so much confidence then when I actually decide to put it into action… yeah… 😔

[sweetykp]

I ALMOST CRIED, THANK YOU MUCH😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️❤️🩷🩷🩷

[laughingisgoodforyou]

This is PERFECT! Thank you so much! I've been trying to reach that "oh this makes sense now" moment with anatomy for ages and this finally did it for me! So seriously thank you! I now have something I can actually practice and build on!

[Roisome]

2:30 The right side is what I’ve been stuck on. Finally someone who doesn’t just tell me to “just draw basic shapes here and there”. and provides a 10 second timelapse of them drawing the left side without any good explaination on what they’re doing.

[medT]

tysm this the best video for anatomy i ever watched

[blahort]

Your channel is so underrated, you always share great and new art tips in every video! Thank you so much for sharing all of this with us!

[hye]

I was having trouble drawing legs last night, and after doing some more inspecting into my drawing, I noticed that the proportions are a little off. Glad I found this video this morning. I'm going to start practicing more of the proportions. Thank you so much!❤

[ibszwnl]

you are the most pure art youtuber ever!, now i can draw the anatomy like Thanos!

[loganlaw]

Thank you! This has made the most sense for me of any anatomy video that I've seen so far

[Kennyzart]

bro ive been through soo many videos and yours is easily the best one by far! your showing EVERYTHING i was looking for in a video as a beginner, thank

[Randomasscat]

I can't thank you enough man! No kidding, I learned a lot in just a day and I'm really excited that I can do something decent for once.
Really, thank you.

[matiaseinersen]

Amazing video, instructive and I loves the little jokes and references, it was just the video I needed for starting drawing the body!

[gabrielhawk]

Thanks Nemo, you're amazing. I fin that this rule applies to all areas of art the more I delve into it: going from macro to micro is the key. When composing scenarios and paintings, for example, just blocking out the big shapes to get everything correct such as perspective, volumes, and colors, and then slowly rendering and adding more details little by litte is the way to go. The same goes for anatomy. We should focus on getting a very simple mannequin in the correct proportions and perspective, instead of trying to render a fully-fleshed out body.

[LotusSpider]

amazing, to the point content without fluff
thank you

[alexmccaleb]

You are the MAN!
This is the mannequinization video that's gonna hit us as hard as Krenz Cushart hit you!
Plus speaking of Krenz in your other video, I like the angle-to-the-viewer system he does. 0° 22.5° 45° 67.5° 90°
Rotation is never arbitrary 👍😎