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1. Class Trailer: Hello Skillshare learners. My name is Sam or Sammy, and welcome to my studio. In this class, I'm going
to be teaching how to draw both the male
and female torso, both the front and
back position. I've designed this class primarily for beginner
to intermediate. Though. If you're more advanced,
feel free to take a look, maybe learn something you didn't know for the class project. When I ask that you take the information
you've learned and use to create your own torsos, both front and back,
male and female. If this sounds like
an awesome class to go through and you
want to learn this, make sure to stay tuned
for the next lessons. And I hope to see you there.
2. Lesson 1: Drawing the Front Female Torso: Hello Skillshare. Thank you for joining us. We're gonna go ahead
and jump right in with the front view or female torso. Now, how are we
going to do this? To get started is we're going to define the ribcage
and the pelvis. So to do this, I like to start with a bit
of a front-line to define where the front of our mass or the middle
of each part of our masses. Just sort of like this. And then we'll go through and add just some simple
spherical shapes. Now for the ribcage,
I like to do, an oval that is a bit taller vertically onto the same shape, except for this one is going
to be tall horizontally. Now even though we're doing
this one as a front-facing, like to do some interesting
poses even within that. So I'm just adding this
little bit of twist to our character just to
add some more interest. Now where I like to go from here because I
don't like leaving any of my shapes to flat. Like to start defining some
of the 3D shape in them. So to do this, I'll
start by defining where cavity of the ribcage. But just about down here. I'll start defining in
where the collarbone is. He'll do with just this
little curved line. I'll go ahead and put two circles still serve as placeholders for the shoulders. Then down here, I'll
start turning this shape into sort of like an underwear shape or kinda like that that she
could get on Barbie. Do this. Start adding some of
these flat shapes. And then I'll go
ahead and flatten off the top of it like that. Perfect. Now from here, I'm gonna be looking
at starting to connect these two shapes here. So to do this, when I start defining
in the stomach. Now, the stomach is going to
come out from the ribcage. Just like this. It's going to connect down here. The way I will do is
it'll go inward a bit, then back out, and
then I'll start curving around right
here, which is our hip. Just like that, will create a little
contour line here just to help us start
seeing that 3D space. Right? Now, same thing on
the other side. We have the hip that
comes out here but curved n back out around the ribcage. Make that tab wider. There we go. I'll just defining shape of our
ribcage bit more. Now from here,
we'll go ahead and move back down to
our pelvis shape. Spring a nice curve out here. I'll actually just
continue it down the leg. Now if we're going for
a tad more realism, there's actually a bone
that sticks out here. So we can actually have
a bit of a shape here, have it divot in a bit, and then continue
back out for the leg. Do it just like that. Go ahead and do the
same on the other side. So about here a bone
would stick out there. Then continue on for the leg. And just finishing
shape for the leg. This course is not one that speaks
specifically into legs. However, if you were
interested in that course, make sure to stay
tuned as I will be covering that in
a future course. Alright, perfect. So now
what we're left with here is sort of this like
underwear, panty sheep. And I actually like to really encourage that
shaped my drawings. It helps me see what I'm doing. Obviously at a point
that I started drying clothes on top
of this armature. Then we'll draw over that But in the meantime, I think it's a really good
way to help you see where different
pieces of anatomy are. So go ahead and
actually just throw a few lines and to make
that shape stand out. Just like that. Alright, Now from here, we're going to go
head and move back up to the top of our character. And we're going to start
working on our shoulders. So we already actually
have done most of the work for our shoulders. Then actually we can add some simple lines just to
see where the arms are. Do it like that. We won't
be doing the full arms, but sort of add in
the simple shape. From here. Start to find and our shoulder. The shoulder, especially
when symbolized, is mostly just very
spherical shape, starts to taper off. As we get down here, will actually connect here to our pectoral muscle and then
connect down like this. And from there, our arm would
come out just like that. Okay. I won't go any
further with our arm. They're the same
on the other side. You'll connect back down
to characters pec muscle. And we'll have the arm. Okay, perfect. Now for our male characters, we would go on to define
more for where the Pixar, we'd have these
massive bulging pecks. However, for female characters, while they still have
pectoral muscles, those are actually covered
by their breast tissue. So we'll actually go
ahead and move into that. Next. To do that, we'll actually start
defining in our collarbone. We've actually already
got most of that. Right here. We've got the line
will simply go to the center of it and we'll have a dividend just a little bit. And that gives us the
center of our collarbone. Not, we'll give it be the perfect basis to start
defining in our breaths. From here. We can go
ahead and actually just draw straight shapes to start figuring out where
we want the breast to be. Now an often misconception
with the brass is, well, we'll just make
these two spheres. And then maybe they just
kinda pivot up a little bit. Just kinda like that. And while you can do something like that
and get away with it, the breaths are actually
more of a flat shape on top. Then gather mass here at the bottom in more
of a circular shape. Now obviously breasts come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. So you can have some breaths that still follow
the same rules, but maybe a bit flatter,
sort of like that. You know, of other breasts that kind of curve
all the way down. This is especially more common with the use of a push-up bro. And of course you can get super saggy breasts
sort of like that. This often comes
after either a lot of weight-loss or
just with old age. So someone what we'll
do with our characters, we'll start by defining where
the top of our breasts will be with shaped
sort of like this. And then from there
we can define where the bottom of
the breasts will be. So we've got our shape
here coming off of the collarbone to
find it right here. Here's where the top of
the breasts will be. Then from there, we can
have that mass meet bottom. I also always recommend
either turning your canvas or turning your paper if you're
working traditionally, just to get as good of
a line as possible. So you'll see me do
that quite a lot here. Alright, go. I mean, sort of finish
bringing that shape. Again. Unless you're doing a push-up
bras or something similar, make sure that the
breast does not cross this middle line. Looking at the
breast here, we've definitely made it
a bit too long, so we'll go ahead and bring that Back just a little bit here, continuing that line
and we'll go ahead and just erase that excess. Just like that. And just make sure we still
have that nice curve. Perfect. Now we'll go ahead and
do the same over here. We'll have more of that
flat shape on the top. Make sure we get
some consistency. I'm just going to
draw a line across here just to make sure we get the bottoms of the breast relatively
similarly aligned. Now it's okay to
have the breasts not perfectly aligned as it's
actually quite common. Breasts are slightly different, but we don't want them to
drastically different. Now from here because
this breast over here is on a bit more of a
three-fourth view. We'll go ahead. Just make sure that the back
of it here is connecting with the shoulder and pectoral muscles in
the arm pit area. And this breast is the same here and just more on the front. And then while you
don't want to define it too much, the breast muscle, specifically more of the
pectoral muscle because the breast muscle or fat. It's more this right here. And then you still have
going through the shoulder. Actually just this pectoral
muscle here at the top, which is oftentimes simply
grouped in with the breast. And then if you want,
you can actually just add some contour lines to help continue to define
at nice round shape. Okay, Perfect. Those are looking
good. Go ahead. Just add a bit more
width here just to make the proportions
a little bit nicer. Obviously, we've
gone for more of a idealized body type
than anything else. Which especially when learning, it's perfectly fine and
they don't even encourage, when you're learning to draw. Honestly stick with
idealised bodies. It'll be a lot easier to
understand the anatomy, especially since
you're drawing a lot more of the muscles. Alright, so now from here, go ahead and finish defining
in some of our ribcage. It'll be important because
on the side here we can define sort of our stomach
is now for this character, we're not going to
do much with that. But if you're going for one of those really lean characters, this little area here is where you would start putting in this fancy stomach shapes. Now familiar. Go ahead and just
put in belly button. Add a few more contour lines. We'll go ahead and
add in the neck. The neck will come just above where we have
our clavicle bone. Have these muscles. These muscles are actually
part of the back. They oftentimes get grouped in with the neck muscles
as you're drawing them, as the shapes end up connecting. Just like this. And then that's your
neck and you would have it connect to your head, which we won't be going
over in this video. But we will put in
simple shape for it. So the head would
then go up here, insert drawn that in. But here we are, Here
is our female torso. The biggest things I would recommend and say to
remember is makes sure to slowly work on building
up your character. So I would actually
recommend jumping around. I don't recommend
drawing the entirety of the top character
and then slowly moving down and drawing
the bottom character. I didn't share, you're
slowly building up the entirety of the
anatomy as you go, as if you excuse me, as if you run into
mistakes that need to be adjusted or corrected, you will be able to do that
without ruining any of your hard honestly, your
hard earned anatomy. So if you enjoyed this session, make sure to join me
for the next session, we will be doing a front-facing torso
for our male character. Make sure to stay tuned.
3. Lesson 2: Drawing the Front Male Torso: Alright Skillshare, lets
go ahead and jump right in and doing the
front-facing male torso. Now this is going to start
the same way that we did the female torso with two ovals. So we'll do the top oval for the rib cage
than lower oval, which will be more horizontal. This will be for the pelvis. Now jumping right in, we're going to go head and as the cavity for the rib cage. None. We're going to go
ahead and get started the shaping the pelvis. Start. You turn this to the 3D
shape by defining top. Then the finance side. We're just kinda create sort
of underwear like shape. Right? From here. We're going to go head, start connecting
these two pieces. Do this. Start adding in the
hips of a small bump here. Just follow this a thrilling to back. Just like that. Now on the other side we'll
add in the same dumb. Come back out and connect
into the ribcage. And I'll define sort
of where abdomen area. Similarly, you create
a shape up here. Follows the same shape
we have on this side. Find the other side. The abdomen. Just like that. Afterwards you can add
some contour lines. They can help us
see the 3D shapes. Alright, we'll come
back to this soon. But for now, we're actually gonna go ahead and move up here and define in the collarbones. Do that. I just like to do
the small curved shape. Right under the curve. You can add in two circles, stand as placeholders
for the show flare. Just like that. Then from here, it's hard
to find anywhere the neck. So to fair where the neck is, we'll actually just
follow with a spine. Spinal run through the back, up. And then right up here. This will be where the
back of the neck is. The front of the
neck will follow the ribcage up just like this. Go ahead and sketch in
a simple back muscles. And it comes up just like that. Fine in our neck. Alright. Now that we have a pretty simple
shape for our torso, we'll go ahead and start
adding in some more detail. So to start, we're going to find where our legs
are going to be. I think may have this leg crossing over and this
leg just going down. Again. This course won't be following through how to
draw legs or arms. But I will show you how
to connect them here. And if you are interested
in learning more about those subjects, stay tuned. As in the future, I will be
releasing more classes on more anatomy for the
rest of the body. Then for the arms here. Go had to have it certainly will have this
farm kinda makes sense. So from here, we'll go ahead
and bring in the shoulders. The shoulder is
shaped like this, so come off of the clavicle down over here and then it
will curve in here. This is a two purposes. One, this will provide space for where the arm is
going to come from. Just like this. Additionally, when it's dealing, it's actually connecting into our pectoral muscle right here. And the pectoral muscle Branching right off shoulder
connexin at the armpit. And you see that a bit more on this side here we'll
go ahead and sketch in our shoulder here. Like so. Arm comes out just like this. Nice contour line. Then similarly, attacks
coming from armpit, comes down then to
the middle here. Like so. And they'll
come up like this. Depending on just
how rip your guy is. You might even see the undertone muscles
just breaks there. Follow that through
on the other side. So I'm going to give them
the same definition we have top. Just like that. Another
thing backup to the neck. Have this little muscle that connects to the
back of the neck, down to the collarbone. Like so. Normal sketching
the Adam's apple. Alright. So now from here, let's go
and move on down to the legs. To start by just creating a curve out here
for the buttocks. Then extend down into the leg. Just up here we have a clade. Similarly we will
have like over here, comes down in a similar manner. Perfect. Now moving on to some of
the additional muscle that will have to find
a character here. And go ahead and start
to finding out the abs. Now when defining up the abs, I generally like to keep
you feel more low key. So I like to show that my
character is muscular, but I don't like
anything too excessive. So something that says
he's in the gym daily but doesn't say he's on
steroids or something. So I just like to keep it subtler, not
necessarily subtle, but subtler. Just like so. You can add a little bit of muscle here on
the ribcage as well. All right, perfect. Then from here, simply sketch it in great way to figure out where
those should be placed. So line going from collarbone. Nice and neat, be a good idea. Where to draw that. Right? There you go. There is our
front-facing male torso. Like to see how to draw the female and male
torsos from behind. Make sure to stay tuned
for the next video. See you guys there.
4. Lesson 3: Drawing the Back Female Torso: Hello Skillshare users. Thanks for tuning in. We're going to go ahead
now and talk about drawing the female torso
from the back view. Now the start of this
will look very similar. We'll start with
two oval shapes. Top one will still be
more tolerant vertical, whereas the bottom one is
going to be wider, horizontal. Now what we'll do
here is we'll start tracing in nice curve, the spine, our spine
curve around like this. Now, if you recall from
the previous lesson, we talked about how the pelvis, the ribcage look like this. Well, now, since we're looking
at them from the back, will no longer see
this top shape here since we're
looking from over here. So because of that, as we start to find
out this shape here, it will still be the same shape. This time we're on
the other side of it. We will see the
bottom here though. Just like that. Now, I'm gonna go
ahead and jump right into connecting these pieces. So go ahead and follow
the curve of the back, back out around here. And the other side will follow a similar curve that
we won't depend quite as far back over the rib cage. Now from here, start
defining some of the back. Now we get some of the back. Got a few primary shapes. Obviously we'll have legs. Then if you remember from the lessons about the
front of the torso, we had this little dip on
the shape right above. The pelvis was, well, a lot of that is
actually going to come from the back
of our character. So the small of your back, you have these muscles
that come out like this. The right above the buttocks. Then from there, you
have some back muscle. Then you'll have bones
here in the back. These will be your
shoulder blades. Shoulder blades
is actually where your shoulder will
connect here at the top. So this will go across. And then down here you
have the buttocks. That's what we'll
be drawing into our character over here. So we can use this line of the spine to identify where
the buttocks will be. With a small of
the back will be. We'll start sketching
in little shape here. Just like that. Then follow through
for the buttocks. Curves like this. On connecting with
little muscle here. It almost looks like a
phone from the back. There. We'll have the butt cheek
continue through this way. And this way on both
sides. Just like that. It helps you can even draw a bit of a point there at the bottom. Then right here where
it hits the front. Actually turn more into sort of flat shape
here at the front. It loses the curve like that. We'll come back to
that for the legs. Moving up here now, we'll start adding in
our shoulder blades. Now. You actually see
them through skin. You don't see the full shape. More of this subtle shape unless we're hitting the
silhouette like we are on the left side here. Shoulder blades will then
connect to top up here. And I wanted to get our
shoulders right here. And then from here, you get the neck to start
coming out like that. Now, again, if you remember in the lessons on the front as you do the neck
and the head here. The neck, we had kind of a
shape like this going behind. Now let's actually
the back muscle. Just a little bit of
muscle over the top here. I'm going to flip back. We'll actually go over some
of the shoulder blades. You can erase that
initial line out and just replace it. Back muscle. There. Go ahead. Add in our shoulder. I'll just quickly add in arms hold this one just
going back a little bit. This one is gone
forward a little bit. Alright, perfect. Now from here, we should have the breast at
least a little visible, won't be super visible. I'll do a drop through from the arm just
so you can still see. We'll have the under
curve like this. And then that flat top
coming through like that. Perfect. Now gone back down here. Add this little line
here in-between. Right under the butt cheeks. This will be the front of the groin showing through there. I'm ready to go and
draw in the legs. So connect right
about the bottom, the butt cheek, and
then down to the front. When we can add in
simple contour lines. Now lastly, if we want, we can add in just a little bit more back muscle just like this. This would be especially for
a more muscular character. Means He just a tad more
definition on the muscle there. Alright, go ahead and erase these extra
little illustrations. And there we have it. We have the back view
where female torso. If you're interested
in joining me for the next and final
lesson of this course. Please join us for
drawing the male torso. I'll see you there.
5. Lesson 4: Drawing the Back Male Torso: Hello Skillshare learners. Thank you for joining me for this final lesson
in this course. This last lesson
we'll be going over drawing the male
anatomy from the back. So go ahead and start. We're going to go ahead
and draw in our ribcage, our pelvis by now,
you should be pretty familiar with drawing
in the shapes. Like last time. We're going to draw
on more of the bottom of our pelvis shape. We won't be able to see the
front due to the angle. Go ahead, Abner spine. This pose. We're
gonna go ahead and actually have a
straight on back shot. Now from here I will
start adding in some of our details this time
I'm actually going to start up here with
the shoulders. So once again, we'll have
the shoulder blades. So actually extend a bit
out of the silhouette here. Right on the ends of it is
where shoulders will be. I'll go ahead and
incorporate in some of that back muscle right here. Again, if you remember
from the previous lesson, this is some of what we'll see. Around the neck. Only dropped from a front view. Back though. Long neck. Bit more like this one I
had a bit more like so. Now from here we'll go
ahead and add in shoulder and offer that shoulder. The arms. Again, we'll just add
in simple cylinder like shapes for alright, moving down the back. Go ahead, widen the ribcage bit and then have it come
down to this point here, just to the small of the back. We'll go ahead and start defining some of
this back muscle, just like the previous lesson. Go ahead and add some additional definition
on the back here. Because this guy's a buffer guy. Figure, he's probably got
that nice definition. Then moving down here, we'll go ahead and start
sketching in the buttocks. Just like so. All right. Now from here, we'll go
ahead and add the length. Scale this down a little
bit to make space. So like last time, we'll have a little bit of a
shape between the buttocks is it says the growing
from the front. None. We'll go ahead and have
the legs right off. The products here. I'll get super detailed with it, but we'll throw in just
a few fund muscle shapes just so it matches
our character. Alright, perfect. Just like that. We have the back
of our male torso. Now from here, you can take this anatomy in twisted around. Really just understanding
these few simple pieces of anatomy able to take that and apply it no matter
how you turn that character. So if we turn a
character more like a female character over
here, same things apply. Simply add them in perspective. For your course project. Please go ahead, draw a front-facing male and
female torso and then a back facing male and female torso of your pose of your choosing. Makes sure to post them
to the class projects. And I'll comment on every
single one of them. You guys have any specific
classes you would like to see me create next, make sure let me know
in the discussion and I'll get those created. In the meantime, please
make sure to take a look at my profile page where I have several other
classes I've created. I know you'll enjoy. You guys. Keep on studying. Sammy
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