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**Gare** · 31 July 2015, 03:15 PM

First, Ron, bravo, man.

It's a success, and I really wish you and Paul would liten to your audience instead of your inner demons that are saying, "Not good enough." put Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon on your iPod (available at Amazon), turn the volume up to 11, and it will be easy to drown out unwanted reservations.

Second, if you're having problems with drawing human anatomy (and who doesn't?), that's what Poser was originally designer for, although the Goth and porn industries have laid claim to the program in recent years. If you can find a used license, it's worth your while, because it comes with dozens of preset poses you only need to double-click to apply to the figures. Without even Googling much, I found Poser 10 new for $69; I'm sure you can beat that.

The other thing about anatomy that struck me in your drawing, is that the height versus head and limb proportions are not "ideal" as classically portrayed. You're going for a dreamy, stylized look, right? For men, the average head to body ratio is 7 1/2 heads for the body height.

—Ideal: 8 heads
—Fashion model 8 1/2 heads
—Superhero 9 heads

...with an average shoulder width of 2 1/2 heads or so.

Female body proportions have become ridiculous in recent years with comic book artists going way over the top. But, a heroically proportioned skating waitress (attendant!) might be desired for your drawing and I'd recommend an 8 head tall figure, with shoulders out to only 2 heads. If you Google heroic body proportions + female, you'll find tons of resources, pictures, a lot of line drawings, and so on.

This is not to take away from your wonderful work, Ron. You made a statement, and this post is only meant to help, my good man.

My Best,

Gary
(who sucks at anatomy)

P.S. How to draw a female superhero is a useful tutorial-based website.

**Ron Duke** · 31 July 2015, 04:05 PM

Originally Posted by Gare

First, Ron, bravo, man.

It's a success, and I really wish you and Paul would liten to your audience instead of your inner demons that are saying, "Not good enough." put Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon on your iPod (available at Amazon), turn the volume up to 11, and it will be easy to drown out unwanted reservations.

Second, if you're having problems with drawing human anatomy (and who doesn't?), that's what Poser was originally designer for, although the Goth and porn industries have laid claim to the program in recent years. If you can find a used license, it's worth your while, because it comes with dozens of preset poses you only need to double-click to apply to the figures. Without even Googling much, I found Poser 10 new for $69; I'm sure you can beat that.

The other thing about anatomy that struck me in your drawing, is that the height versus head and limb proportions are not "ideal" as classically portrayed. You're going for a dreamy, stylized look, right? For men, the average head to body ratio is 7 1/2 heads for the body height.

—Ideal: 8 heads
—Fashion model 8 1/2 heads
—Superhero 9 heads

...with an average shoulder width of 2 1/2 heads or so.

Female body proportions have become ridiculous in recent years with comic book artists going way over the top. But, a heroically proportioned skating waitress (attendant!) might be desired for your drawing and I'd recommend an 8 head tall figure, with shoulders out to only 2 heads. If you Google heroic body proportions + female, you'll find tons of resources, pictures, a lot of line drawings, and so on.

This is not to take away from your wonderful work, Ron. You made a statement, and this post is only meant to help, my good man.

My Best,

Gary
(who sucks at anatomy)

P.S. How to draw a female superhero is a useful tutorial-based website.

MUCH appreciated, Gary!

**gray** · 31 July 2015, 07:42 PM

I would say that came out really well, Ron. Don't beat yourself up over the figures. My figures usually look like stick men.

**Ron Duke** · 31 July 2015, 09:22 PM

Thanks Graham.

**wizard509** · 01 August 2015, 05:55 PM

I really do think your figures look fine.

**Ron Duke** · 01 August 2015, 06:38 PM

Thanks Larry.
I really do need to add figure drawing to my long list of things to work on. But, if everything was easy there wouldn't be any challenges; and that would be boring.