Drawing Manga Characters from Scratch
Body proportions
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About the video: Body proportions
Overview
“In this lesson, we will teach the proportions of the upper and lower body regions. In addition, we will show the differences in the proportion of female and male bodies.”
In this video lesson EUDETENIS addresses the topic: Body proportions, which is part of the Domestika online course: Drawing Manga Characters from Scratch. Learn to draw a complete model sheet in pencil with proportion, volume, and movement.
Partial transcription of the video
“Body Proportions In this lesson, you'll learn about body proportions. Let's start by drawing vertical lines that will represent the space our character will occupy. Usually, a medium-height character has a height of about seven heads. Like this. I make an ellipse, making the height of the first head. Then just repeat that same height. It doesn't have to be exactly the same measure, just do it approximately. Five, six, seven. That way, we define our character's height. From the side it's the same. That being done, let's learn a basic proportion, the middle line in the body. Since we have sev...”
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Course summary for: Drawing Manga Characters from Scratch
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Category
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Areas
Character Design, Comic, Drawing, Manga, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration

EUDETENIS
A course by EUDETENIS
Giovana and Paulo Serafim, better known as the creative duo Eudetenis, are professionals in the area of drawing and manga comics with over ten years of experience in the national and international market.
She as a designer and he as a screenwriter have partnerships with publishers in Japan and France to publicize their authorial publications, such as the series “Rasetsu: Primal Hunt”. The duo has also won several awards, including the Masterclass award at the Silent Manga Audition.
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