Any tips on drawing people? - General

I havn't drawn regularly in a few years now (with school and all).I used to be really good too, except all I could draw was cartoons (dogs and that kinda cool shit). So as a experienced yet unexpierenced artist I I ask facepunch. What are some tips on drawing people? I wanna be an artist again. Be prepared for questions.

Practice. :smugdog:

Yep, just draw tons of simple figures while focusing on proportion.

bitches wit da huge tits

When I want to practice anatomy + proportions + poses , I always like to draw Olympic athletes.

Take photos of people and draw over it Yeah, fuck your family album, DO IT! Well, at DeviantArt, there are some tuts; There is one made by a furry, with some useful tips [editline]12:01AM[/editline] I mean, human anatomy, he just draw the rest furry *look at DA artists* So much technique... Wasted on this...

Well DA is like 70% drawings of anthropomorphic animals running, no surprise there.

Steal poses from other drawings and use them as your base skeleton

Do actual human studies.

[QUOTE=RedPanda;16937347]Do actual human studies.[/QUOTE] This Take some life drawing classes

[QUOTE=TH89;16938171]This Take some life drawing classes[/QUOTE] At your local college?

It depends what you'd want to draw. I started drawing real folk recently. Sadly, I'm still quite slow, so I'm working from photos as opposed to real people, but I'm getting there.

I don't mean to realistic I can never get the body shape eyes and nose right

you have to learn proportions first, and how to properly balance human figures. generally, a problem i see with human drawings is that most people do not know how to balance the head with the body, and thus, it looks retarded. you should also try to recall what you learned about the human body(if not, look up pictures of muscular men and women, that should be an easy basis) and learn to draw the muscular structure right.

Start drawing women, when they turn out hot you will want to make more.

You should first draw somekind of figures. After that work with proportions and finally add human features and possible perspective. I could scan few from my sketch-book. [editline]06:50PM[/editline] [IMG]http://i25.tinypic.com/vfuo8k.png[/IMG] ( Made in MSPaint ) [IMG]http://i27.tinypic.com/idabyg.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i28.tinypic.com/2jcy4k0.png[/IMG] This is a basic human figure and proportions. The proportions are usually measured by size of the head. Adult's head is about 1/7 of the body. Usually children have larger head compared to rest of the body ( and small people ). The arms in the picture might be little too long, sorry.

[QUOTE=tasty-man;16941731]I don't mean to realistic I can never get the body shape eyes and nose right[/QUOTE]That's why you practice.

Buy a cintiq, your skills will be multiplied by the amount of money you'll have to pay for it

Just practice look how shitty I was 2 years ago XD [url]http://goaway2point0.deviantart.com/art/Resident-Evil-2-Leon-70643254[/url]

[QUOTE=Number7Reds;16946581]Just practice look how shitty I was 2 years ago XD [url]http://goaway2point0.deviantart.com/art/Resident-Evil-2-Leon-70643254[/url][/QUOTE] ok, you used to suck! i dont really have much to contribute... try paper and pencil then scan it?