For some reason, everyone who is suddenly overwhelmed by the thirst for drawing begins to carry out his plan precisely from the image of the girl. The drawing is often far from perfect, and all because the person is barely familiar not only with the anatomy, but also with the principles of building the human body and face. Meanwhile, this knowledge is very important, especially for a novice artist.
But in this article I will not go into the anatomical details, but will talk about the most important techniques for constructing a proportional
figure of a girl. The painted ladies are able to excite the imagination no less than the living ones, so at this stage you only need a blank sheet of paper, a simple
hard pencil and a soft eraser.
Before you draw a girl, you need to sketch out her proportions. For simplicity of understanding, let’s take as an example a standing figure. So, for a start we draw a sort of “skeleton” or “frame”: having drawn the head in the form of an ellipse, we draw a vertical line from the center of its “chin”. It will serve as a guide for construction. To make the figure proportional, you need to know that the head of an adult “fits” seven times in the body. Therefore, before you draw a girl in full growth, you must first note the height of the head. This is done simply: attach the pencil to the drawing so that the edge of its stylus is on the same level with the crown, and your fingers are on the level with the future chin.
Having thus fixed the height of the head, divide the line going down into seven equal segments. Now in more detail about the resulting “scale”: at the level of the first segment there should be a rib cage, at the level of the second - the waist, the third - the lower part of the hips, the fourth and fifth - legs to the knees, the sixth and seventh - legs below the knees to the bone on the ankle. An additional segment is required on the image of the foot, half the length of the main one.
Having received such a scheme, we proceed to the next step in solving the problem of how to draw a girl. Now we need to outline the limbs. To do this, stepping back a little from the head, we outline the shoulder girdle using a horizontal line. In exactly the same segments we mark the waist and the line of the hips. Since we are drawing a girl, it will be absolutely natural if the shoulder line is wider than the waist line, but already the hips line. From the sketchy shoulder girdle, draw the lines of future hands: the elbows should be at the level between the third and fourth segments, the fingertips should be at the level between the fourth and fifth. The beginning of the legs should fall directly on the fourth segment.
When the "frame" is ready, you can begin to "build meat", that is, drawing a full body. The "skeleton" will serve as a guide so that both halves of the body are the same in width. Of course, when drafting, you need to consider that both the arms and legs, and the whole body has a certain shape, and the face and head also require a separate construction. But this is a topic for another article. I hope that the above description of how to draw a girl, together with the pictures provided for a better perception, will help you quickly navigate, and in the future you will be able to create more complex images of people. Having “typed” your hand and developed an eye, you will become more confident in your abilities, which will allow you to depict a human body without having to draw a preliminary “wireframe” sketch.