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SAYno2U β Tutorial: Proportioning
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This is how I proportion. It's really easy once you get the hang of it. It works with all head lengths. Hope this is useful for anyone who has problems with proportions in the manga style.Related content
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I have been practicing for a couple of years, and the proptioning has always gotten me. this helps, thanks.
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Ah thanks for making this. I've gotten better on how to do faces but drawing them in proportion I still find a bit hard 
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Thanks, I've never learned the full body proportions so I can only draw portraits. I hope I get better after some practice
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Yay! I usually have problems when it goes to proportions xP
This will really help me!
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canο»Ώ you make tutorial how to draw the difference between the male and female body and aslo draw the difference hair stlye like wavy, straight, and Curly in naruto stlye please?
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Hi,can you make tutorial how to draw the difference between the male and female body and aslo how to draw the difference hair stlye like wavy, straight, and Curly in naruto stlye please i need help ?
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so useful!i already have a giant book of anatomy for artists (it is huge!!!more than 300 pages!FAT BOOK!) and I know a lot but this helps too ^^
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Ooh, that sounds awesome. I'm curious, what's the name of that book? o.o
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well i don't know the name in english because the book's translated into croatian i'll tell you when i find out ok?
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thanks for the contribution
This will serve me much
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This is very true. I was so used to trying to measure characters by heads that eventually I began to get frustrated... especially when trying to draw people (often without their consent) in real life. Many people just didn't fall into those proportions. I read in a book a technique similar to this, and found it really does work. It's a pain to figure when you start moving body parts from astraight standing position, but knowing where a character's arms really land in the "head scale" can help alot.
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I'm glad that you keep in mind those things! I will be making a tutorial on poses that aren't straight measurements from the basic standing pose. (In the undetermined future.)
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Coolio! I'll keep an eye out for it!
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Amazingly well down
may I ask to copy this into a journal I'm writing to teach anyone how to draw?
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Yeah! Sorry I just slapped on the words though. As long as there is a link back to my page, and a mention of my name it will be fine!
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well the journal is hand written and I obviously will mention you then I'll mentionit in journal on Deviantart as well
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AWESOME!!! thank you. thank you.thank you. thank you.thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you.thank you. thank you.thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you.thank you. thank you.thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you.thank you. thank you.thank you. thank you.
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well the journal is hand written and I obviously will mention you then I'll mentionit in journal on Deviantart as well
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Good reference, but I'm paranoid that people will use rules or even a computer to validate my proportions.
Here, the camera is a 45~60 deg from the top, so she looks shorter, [link]
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People validate proportions all the time using what feels natural to them. It if looks normal then they will accept it as proportioned. Picky people like me will take my finger and measure out proportions on a drawing without the use of a computer. Well, I used to do it that way- now I can just eye-ball most of the time.
I'm not sure what the link is for since it told me to log-in. But don't be paranoid! People will do what they will. Draw for yourself, and just hope that other people like it. There are a lot of people that exaggerate different parts of the body because that is their style. Don't think to much about it! After people master the basics they can twist it to their own style while still achieving balance.
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Thanks, I think I am already reliable with proportions. Sometimes I found when I added cloths, the proportions mess up.
Well, here is a working link: [link]
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Ahhhh. When forshortening, especially in this pose, the wrists would still be somewhere alined with the crotch- and the hands near the upper-middle thigh. I would make the arms a bit shorter if you follow. It would also help if you would define the knees to get a better illusion that your looking down at her. Shortening the arms slightly, and defining the knees, would strengthen the illusion your aiming for. Hope this is okay to say.
If you would like to understand more I would be willing to redraw your drawing with key notes like I did for this tutorial.
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Sorry, the above link is wrong [link]
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Hmm, nice idea for a tutorial. Mind, though, that the text is laid out in a rather confusing manner, and not particularly easy to view on a screen... Tutorials are best kept neat to help people understand.
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I agree. I blame laziness!
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...It's lazy to ignore constructive criticism, too. >_>
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Why give out advice for others, then?
Laziness isn't something anyone really benefits from.
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I'm not teaching laziness. >____> Ma'am.
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Lazy lessons are only rewarded with lazy results.
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Depends on how much the individual puts work into it. It has the same amount of information it would have even if I spent a lot of time on it! I just laid out the words where it fit, and apparently the groups that accepted the tutorial say it is FINE, or else they wouldn't have accepted it.
Lady, no offense but if you don't like it just don't look at it. If you can't read it don't read it! I'm not changing what I did just for you. =.= Other people have found it useful, if you haven't-- I can't teach you to learn. If you think you can do a better job then go ahead! Maybe I will find it more useful than mine!!
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Hmm. Maybe I'll take you up on the challenge.
But I wasn't actually attacking what you did. I offered constructive criticism, and... Well, I guess if you weren't looking for any maybe I should have kept my mouth shut and not pressed the matter, but that kind of response from you--where you made it absolutely clear that you did not care one way or another--just feels wrong to me, in someone who's offering assistance of a sort to other people.
Anyway. I should probably be quiet already, I got a little carried away.
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Oh god, I'll kill you! That's awesome! Why your tuts look nice while mine still have my "incredible" handwriting? ha,ha
Congratz! Now just keep the good work
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Thanks! I thought of doing handwriting but that never goes well for me-- even with my homework. x3
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I never thought about a highest point for the knee, that's why my characters allways look awkward in sitting positions... 
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Maybe so! Next time you make a drawing try talking out loud what you are doing with you drawing, and explain to yourself why--each and every time you add or change something. You may find that there could be more explaining to do.
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I like you, you have some weird but logical methods. And I have nothing to lose in doing it. I already have the weird habit of having a one-person conversation, so my mom already think I'm crazy, talking a bit more won't make any difference...ha,ha
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I heard a saying that goes, "If people think your crazy then your doing the right thing!" Or something like that...
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Oh,no,nevermind! I like being crazy, it is people like me that makes this world funnier! 
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pink or 'blue-ish' green?
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