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Leg Anatomy and measurement tutorial. Gotta love legs. Mmm.More tutorials can be found in my gallery, in the Tutorials folder.
Currently available tutorials:
Female figure
Basic Hand
Basic Expression
Arm Anatomy
Leg Anatomy
Sometimes people ask me why I use such insanely meticulous and yet unnecessary measurements. The reason? Well, although I personally don't need to measure so incredibly carefully, it's not only extremely beneficial knowing the exact location (hence allowing me to make more accurate estimates), but because it's for your benefit as well.
I've seen a lot of tutorials that gave a nice explanation, but still forced me to estimate the distances and sizes. Those tutorials, while somewhat helpful, didn't allow me to improve my anatomy at all. I always wished there was some kind of exact comparison, some kind of exact tutorial, for me to use.
I have not mastered or perfected anything prior to creating these tutorials. In fact, most of the time, I'm new to the subject!
I make my tutorials through extensive observation from both real life and references.
After studying these references, I am left with a huge canvas filled with images, ideas, measurements, and notes. So, why not organize them and turn them into a tutorial for everyone to use?
Update: Thank you so much for making this a daily deviation! I never would have imagined myself on the daily's page. Both very honored and surprised!
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Comments: 190
cloneddragon [2012-09-03 14:43:39 +0000 UTC]
drawing good legs has been killing me, thanks a bunch for this. might be able to draw some good legs now with out spending more time on them than the entire sketch.
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Sukh01lixe [2012-09-03 13:08:57 +0000 UTC]
nice tutorial... even though i studied medicine in the past... i still have troubles on: did that muscle when over there?, does it look nice?, and... most of all ive troubles with perspective from uphead... but i think your tutorial serves me well...
can you check my dev & tell me what i did wrong on my wendy/wcerberus draw?
ill check your dev too...
Gl++
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JanTuts [2012-09-03 13:05:18 +0000 UTC]
Damn it, how many times will I have to say this to people on deviantART and YouTube:
Your tutorials are easier to understand and BETTER than most anatomy drawing / image analysis classes I've had at college...
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Z-In-Your-Hair In reply to JanTuts [2012-09-03 21:50:55 +0000 UTC]
BECAUSE THEY ARE WRONG. This is so factually wrong it makes my head spin.
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Deviant88User [2012-09-03 12:58:48 +0000 UTC]
I love the human shape. Your work is very good, it is as you say necessary to study anatomy to be abe to render the movement and the shape in the correct proportion and a realistic feel.
I will be checking your gallery to see more!
Have you tried animating this drawings?
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Towers-Aki [2012-09-03 12:22:27 +0000 UTC]
You know what? This was something I as thinking about recently. How much I wish to practice legs.
Thank you for this.
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Rhiusvell [2012-09-03 12:14:13 +0000 UTC]
Thank you for this Tutorial, I have been struggling with legs for quite some time!
Well deserved DD, I'd never could've seen it nor have stumbled onto it!
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Natmonkey [2012-09-03 09:04:39 +0000 UTC]
Very useful. Thanks for sharing and creating this.
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OllieTeo [2012-09-03 08:14:10 +0000 UTC]
Sorry if this has already been asked, but what about fat people?
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jeffoffo In reply to OllieTeo [2012-09-03 08:27:08 +0000 UTC]
This only applies to the types of legs that are within my personal interests, though many of the aspects can still apply. I can't guarantee accuracy though, there's too many types of realistic legs for me to address in just 1 tutorial.
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OllieTeo In reply to OllieTeo [2012-09-03 08:15:56 +0000 UTC]
erm... actually, disregard my comment, sorry.
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123satsuke [2012-09-03 06:37:07 +0000 UTC]
thank you thank you thanks a billion... I wonder if you have one on arms.. THANKS SOO MUCH
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jeffoffo In reply to 123satsuke [2012-09-03 08:27:20 +0000 UTC]
I certainly do, check out my tutorials gallery!
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BloodxEagle [2012-08-20 05:09:07 +0000 UTC]
Ugh, this made me even more aware of how unanatomy looking my legs are... Not the ones I draw, those are obviously having issues but the ones I was born with XD my little legs of oddness X3
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jeffoffo In reply to BloodxEagle [2012-08-20 05:14:28 +0000 UTC]
I wouldn't worry too much about it. Artists can't cover everything, this tutorial only teaches people how to draw my own personal preference of leg appearances. My legs aren't exactly beautiful either. Wait till you see my feet tutorial... The amount of differences between each person's foot is so incredibly large that the foot might as well be as varied as the face!
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BloodxEagle In reply to jeffoffo [2012-08-20 05:44:35 +0000 UTC]
lol XD Well it's a genetic thing for me = 7 =" my legs kinda rather than turn in after the knee turn out . ^ . also they are so curvy o_o it's like... curves on curves... lol I'm not making sense anymore - 7 - Good you replied, I needed to add this. XD Also thank you for putting in time to reply XD you're getting a lot of comments . u .
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Hopethefangirl [2012-08-19 20:32:16 +0000 UTC]
Ahahaha, this is a really good tutorial c: <3 It's wonderful reference.
sorry I put it in my "kitty cats" folder on accident. Slip of the hand.
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redtarget827 [2012-08-18 10:37:44 +0000 UTC]
thanks for sharing. I need all the help I can get.
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jeffoffo In reply to Eeffie [2012-08-17 14:27:55 +0000 UTC]
There's a large Tutorials button on my profile page
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BeautifulAKWinter [2012-08-15 22:48:04 +0000 UTC]
Awesome! I've been looking for something like this while working on one of my recent projects. Thanks!
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Saig-Sagittarius [2012-08-15 06:50:17 +0000 UTC]
My anatomy knowledge is not bad but your tutorial should be a nice reminder... Thank you very much!
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XxKraitxX [2012-08-14 21:52:08 +0000 UTC]
This is pretty useful. I suck at legs (well,anatomy in general) so this is very helpful. Thanks for making this
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UltimateSketchQueen [2012-08-14 20:39:04 +0000 UTC]
;A;
Thanks so much! I love drawing legs, but I've never been too too great at them..
But this is very helpful, thank you!
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Lelaihah [2012-08-14 20:35:17 +0000 UTC]
As I discovered a few weeks ago i really suck at drawing legs. Your tutorial provides a lot of good references and a lot of help. I hope I can improve with this. Thanks a lot.
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Promet-he-us In reply to ??? [2012-08-14 19:08:04 +0000 UTC]
Thank you for this wonderful tutorial, very helpful, easy to grasp and well to use!
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