How To Draw Manga Female Body Proportions [HTD Video #12]

[@chikin6146]

One thing that Annoys me is when Crilley Draws a perfect line with one stroke but when i try it, it looks like wiggling line...

[@Lud5]

Me:gahh!Mark,can you pass the eraser? Mark:Eraser?What is this "eraser" you speak of? Me:Holy S**t

[@ohyeahyeah8940]

Same. He probably does not know about the special piece of rubber us noobs use in our daily lives.

[@mohdgadi5648]

HAH!!! noobs......I used different erasers just to erase one line -____-.....

[@Simsanimelover456]

My problems are: The heads Body Ears Males I can do females pretty good, but males no.

[@yuriusutr7284]

I feel like men are easy but that probably bc i practice more with male but yea... Btw i know this comment wad like 6 years ago

[@ohyeahyeah8940]

I look at this video, and I'm like "Yo, where the eraser be at dawg?"

[@KB-ul2ub]

I like how you put it for us to understand how to draw it

[@markcrilley]

Thanks Courtney :)

[@jackchase5727]

+markcrilley is there a slower version of this if there is i hope there respond back sorry to bother you

[@MrKingMoving]

how long the distance betwen two line in cm? there is absolute or not? if not, how to decide the distance?

[@prinny456]

I've been struggling with proportions for so long! Thanks for the great video. You're probably the only person on youtube that I've seen that can actually TEACH be step-by-step the art of manga and anime. Thank you again.

[@Ari-ng5pn]

I love watching your videos! I'm kinda getting ok with heads But I just CANT get the body right, so I'm going to keep practicing with this toturial! Thanks for the help! :)

[@MerchyAtGC]

I bought Brody's Ghost today! After getting Mike Falls a few years back, I decided that the artwork, plot and characters are so amazing that I had to support! I watch all your videos! You are an amazing artist and so awesome for actually teaching people online. Not many other artists do that! Yay, you!

[@fer-gr8kf]

thank you so so much for the help, mark! before this, my faces looked wonderful and the bodies looked drawn by a 5 year-old! thank you so much! :D

[@Xylyte]

The thing that I most respect about your art is that you don't erase. Anyone can draw stuff like this with time, and alot of erasing. But being able to draw the whole thing correct the first time is a major skill. I notice as well that you do two completely different styles of art with "Brody's Ghost" and "Miki Falls". With "Brody's Ghost" you really assentuate the hips, as well as giving it a realistic yet simple loook. With "Miki Falls" you give it a mixture of american comic and manga style body proportions. And your design for the faces is a style I have never seen before. The raised mouth is typical in older drama anime's, but the mixture of that with your fare spaced eyes give it a very unique look. I wonder if that was intentional, or just your maturing in drawing comics. - A comment from an aspiring American Manga artist.

[@vivilo8377]

It's so awkward when I start to draw the breasts of a character because people are always watching me draw, so when I get there they get extremely uncomfortable. It's extremely awkward.

[@asunayuuki889]

Yeah I know right may I ask are you a guy

[@vivilo8377]

Asuna Yuuki No. I'm a girl.

[@Aster-vs8xg]

ViviLo OMG IKR?! And the worst thing about it is when some of the boys start to get a little "busy body", they'll come over and watch me draw, and when it comes to the body curves, they'll be all like "Dude you're perverted..." so everytime I'll be like "WELL AT LEAST I CAN ACTUALLY DRAW A PERSON! UNLIKE YOU! ALL YOU CAN DO IS A STICKMAN!!!" XD

[@amyyi4946]

It's really awkward for me cuz I'm still 9 😖😖😖😤😤😂😂😂

[@Aster-vs8xg]

Amy Play I'm like 13

[@brendaportelli8194]

How did you do all this without an eraser?

[@wynterhaymans1361]

I KNOW RIGHT =/

[@jasmineadamo7051]

thank you so much! this video helped a lot! I needed to draw manga bodies for a long time, and this helped! Thank you markcrilley!

[@jasmineadamo7051]

You have gotten yourself a new subscriber!

[@TheStein001]

The break through I've been looking for! I've been stuck in the whole female anatomy. Extremely helpful x3

[@OfficialFabster450]

I always make the body too short. :(

[@Nuti196]

I always draw body too long xd Also legs, they are too long as well ;(

[@tristanjourney1459]

Are you just trying to draw it freehand? Because usually before I've learned how to draw things from memory, I like to go find pictures that have similar characteristics as what I want to draw, and I look at how the artist did it. Pinterest is also great for art help. It's okay to look at something as a reference, that's how artists learn :)

[@christinesanford394]

ive learned that the guidelines really do help i used to despise them but now i don't draw without them

[@edgarthepug9787]

Same. But sometimes that can really help if your character is really short!

[@asianboy508]

+Jennifer Shao nothing wrong with short body... a lot of anime shows draw their characters like that to give the effect of cuteness or to indicate that the character is young. Crilley uses 7 heads tall but tend to use only 5 heads

[@renaicirculation4143]

Now on quarantine. I decided to make my comic I was thinking since Highschool. Due to busy college work and now a job. I dropped drawing all together. Here I am going back to basics thanks Mark!

[@90sugarstar]

I am already good at the head. But my problems are Body Hands Ears Clothes AND SHOES. ._.

[@gamma7290]

i feel your pain

[@novaofkonoha7897]

Omg shoes

[@iloveanime506]

SAME

[@dragonwithafez]

Yeah, I always loved art but couldn,t find anything I was good at. aaaanow I have discovered my talent for mana and anime- style artwork. Thank you soooo much, Mark Crilley! I can't thank you enough! :)

[@xxowltalesxxjamaa3366]

Anyone else have a problem with making the hands or body too small or too big?

[@seb-nah]

Yea :/

[@KaiDoesMineCraft10]

+XXOwlTalesXX Jamaa me

[@bchikn711]

+XXOwlTalesXX Jamaa Yaoi hands?

[@MewMewHaku]

Hands start about an inch under the end of your hip and continue on to half of your thigh. The palm stops a little more than halfway down the hand. The thumb branches off halfway down the palm and ends 1/4 of the way down your index finger. That's the basic outline of the hand size. As for width, it's about half the width of the face

[@WolwerLeague]

Very clear instructions, took me a while because I'm a beginner and I did mine with a different hair style, skirt and T-shirt.

[@SonicParadox17]

Am I the only one who thinks it's easier to draw women instead of men?

[@Ilovefriesnosaltpls]

nope

[@blindOni]

Depends on you , honestly I find female bodies hard to draw.

[@madlycountingsheep139]

no, im the same way

[@kongphengthao2437]

I find it extremely awkward to draw female bodies in school...... ( I doodle in class ahaha )

[@madlycountingsheep139]

im the same with that too. I try to cover it up when someone walks by cus im embarrassed

[@snowhouse7616]

when you're starting out try using lined notebook paper, you can count out headspaces quickly. plus the lines give a great perspective for angels and help you keep your features even(i.e. eyes/ shoulders)

[@immajusticeleague]

"I'm no expert on this" BULL

[@Carolineqwertyuiop]

I learned everything I know about drawing anime from this channel. No joke. Now I can amaze my friends, thanks to you!!! So thank you sooooo much!! :) doumo arigato gozaimasu!

[@kittycat7916]

I am a 12 year old girl and wow! One day I'm hoping to practice everyday to get as good as you when I grow up!

[@larissafarmer8218]

i want to make mangas when i'm older

[@mattmurray2249]

Larissa Farmer me 2

[@RecklesslyPessimistic]

It's never to early to start drawing every day, do so and you will see your drawing ability's increase greatly in a very short time. :)

[@bloodsucker7777]

i started when i was 12 too! and now i can say i am pretty good but i am still a bit shakey on the head shape and where to place the eyes.... simple things

[@larissafarmer8218]

trace around something circular, then draw the chin for the head

[@LyriaSiders]

It takes a long time to get the feeling of knowing what the correct distances between features in a character are, if you don't give up eventually you will see your drawings improve more and more. I'm struggling with a similar problem right now, but it is getting better.

[@Brennondragon]

How would this change if you are drawing a Character with small breast or big breast? And can you make a video about the chest area, I still don't understand it that well.

[@mohdgadi5648]

there some parts of the human body that doesn't always follow the guidelines (for example the the size of the eyeball itself stays the same but the distance between the eyes differs from one person to another) hence why it is important to experiment different proportions till you learn what is constant and what isn't. as far as drawing the chest area, there isn't much change (from what I have learned)

[@Techy-Nature]

@@mohdgadi5648 other than size, the lines stay the same. So just resize the breasts and make them slightly shorter on the torso to compensate. That's what I do anyway. *shrugs*

[@Macnavor]

Ancles are like forearms just a bit similar but more curved. Now once you mastered the way of drawing legs and arms you should draw poses acording to their position and the location of the torso as well as their angle towards the torso. Location of joints also depend on how open are the arms and the legs or how high in the paper.

[@DaggerKidProductions]

I hate drawing breast for my characters. I can never get it right XD

[@whatthehell6454]

Dagger Kid ahahah I know how you feel T-T

[@Tabby412]

Natasha G Amen to that

[@charlesart19]

Dagger Kid i love drawing breasts and pretty big ones too

[@matti_2023]

haha anime tiddies go brrrrr *failing noises*

[@jrm48220]

A handy tip about shoulders that I just discovered. If you watch the way Mark does them, and if you look at Akamatsu's work in Negima!, you can see that the shoulder (in a straight on pose) is just a continuation of the cheek lines (after they have turned together to form the chin). I hope that saves others the hours of work I spent figuring that out.

[@Tabby412]

Good Video, bad pixel quality :(

[@Tabby412]

Oh, thanks. That explains the low rez.

[@IncidentalxHappening]

I fond this helpful. I have not been drawing lately, though seeing your channel made me want to give it a go again! My proportions turned out better than usual! Thank you.

[@DreamyTwilight]

this video has bad graphics,,,

[@kaladevirulez]

i don't think you can ever make a mistake or mess anything up because in the art world you are a GOD

[@taranax9526]

Thank you so much for making this video. Proportions are one of my biggest problems and now I am better at them.

[@jordanhency972]

You made the female a lot less complicated. I used your entire technique, and my character design is a lot less flawed than it used to be. Even my first try with your technique just improved my style so much more. (Of course I'm still a little flawed) but you did amazing work and still do on all your videos!

[@kawaiipanda4013]

Mark THANK YOU I used to draw so much when I was really little and about 8 yrs old and I was pretty ok then I stopped when I saw tutorials and people who were way better. Just 4 months ago I tried to get back into drawing it was hard then I found ur videos. Then I was good at Manga eyes head hair and now I'm working on body's thx Mark

[@xxdeda]

You are so talented, and you explain things so well. You've really inspired me to draw. Keep up the great videos

[@josephmorton3445]

hey Mark this video was awesome. It gave me a better understanding of how to do body proportion. I like the guide lines that you gave on where the body parts go. Thank you a lot for these videos, they'er helping me out a lot. Thank You Joseph Morton

[@Alazar0k]

Thank you very much for posting videos like this! I've been working light-heartedly for a while on becoming a manga artist, using your videos and others as references for my own art. I'm definitely going to by one of your mangas to use as a more permanent reference because I love your style! Again thank you for spending time teaching us your techniques =]

[@sunnyd4532]

I LOVE your videos!!! I just recently started drawing manga and your tutorials have been a huge help!!!

[@pumkinhead24]

your help has really been amazing, it has helped to start to bring my fantasies and ideas to life because i was trying to make a book on a dream and i had no way to do that until i started watching your videos on demand on comcast and then more on the internet. i love your work and i would love to be able to do what you do but it is gonna take some time, oh well. again thanks for all your help. :D

[@rjones197]

Great lesson on proportions, thank you. I am a untrained artist and things like this really help with being able to quickly reproduce a character. Maybe I should take some classes:)

[@spacesriot]

Thank you so much! I have been trying this for years and continuously failed, and now I can finally draw female bodies thanks to you! I only had trouble with the hands, but maybe that's 'cause I suck at drawing hands.... but thanks!

[@soulrose95]

doing the guide lines really helped me draw a great picture. can you make a video on how to draw a ball gown dress? or rather dresses in general.

[@Arashiofordo3]

What I find to be the most irritating thing is that every drawing tutorial I've ever witnessed always harps on about drawing the template out first. Then this man Epic tiers it and just draws her straight out...! This is why we love you.

[@DinoKlaw]

I like how you added a bit of depth to it by putting in a shadow behind her on the ground.

[@Macnavor]

Because the arms are shaped in slightly curved lines (if you want to draw them realistic) in a cartoony way the arms woud be drawn using straight lines! Legs tend to be the same just the more curved the more femenine and muscular. The curve in the femoral zone is more pronunciated in the front side when you see them in profile and go inwards but the back of the tigh is less curved! Remember to considerate the knee shoulders and elbows (the elbows of course depending on the perspective)

[@Maffiking]

Thx for making your vids! i love anime and i was never good at it but watching you made me determined to practice until ive gotten really good. you have really inspired me and now my work is being admired by teachers and class mates! thank you :D

[@ignatiusleesiwei]

"If you are drawing a character where, you know, you can see where the legs are meeting the torso" That extremly subtle message that someone somehow is watching this video with malicious intents within their minds, amuses me every single time. XD

[@CheeseWhiteMage]

You never cease to amaze me! Good job, it looks great! :)

[@zephaniyahdrawinganimation8837]

Hi Mark, regards from Spain, thank you for this video. Can you do a new one, an updated version, if you have time of course :-) Thank you very much for sharing your experience. 🙂

[@SavannahBelle613]

I'm eight years old (I'm using my big sister's account right now). I really wanted to say that I loved the two Brody's Ghost books, and I'm really psyched to know what comes next.

[@mmmaaahhhaaammm]

thats amazing!!! ive started drawing manga and i guess im alright but i struggle on the eyes face shapes and bodies and sometimes hair but now that you started posting these videos im much better! thank you!!!

[@lollollolOHO]

wow, incredible how the cuality of your videos has improved :O !!

[@Voodoofox3]

hey. everyone has their own style/ way of how they draw. Not everyone's way of drawing manga/anime is going to be exactly like the 'traditional' or how you see another artist do it. that's what art is. finding and perfecting your style and what's comfortable/ easy for you. sometimes if i watch a tutorial, i skip a step or two or draw it the way that's easiest for me and still get a great result that isnt too far from the style.

[@sveta333000]

Wow this is realy good! Can't wait to be as good as you are right now!: ) My favorite one is the glasses one! Thanks for doing that one, i was going to ask but you already did it!

[@greentea933]

Wow, I just drew te best body I've ever made, and it's all thanks to you! Thanks for making these videos!

[@alexisrulles14]

cool now i think i know how to do proportions alot better, usually ill start of with stick figures then draw the base not worrying about how tall, wide,narrow,or lopsided my character looks, i try to follow ur steps alittle and hopefully ill improve by this summer ^^

[@SacritheImmortal]

In another video he has the lines one inch apart. Although, to be honest the spacing of the lines changes with the width of the body which sometimes people find different. An example would be, i can't draw big things, but can small things so my lines stay close together. Hope it helps

[@jadethompson3953]

Thank you. I had no idea how to draw proportionally and this really helped.

[@MrYorkcity94]

Just ordered your Mastering Manga book Mark! :) Can't wait for it to arrive.. Loving the videos, really is helping me with my Comics :)

[@Azenamga]

as always i'm amazes at the speed of ur drawing lol and you're skills obviously. i decided i want to draw manga half a year ago, but it's friggin' hard to make the characters look 'alive'. well i'm still at the stage where i can barely draw a decent manga head >.< big ups dude, keep it up

[@sk050699]

Mr.Mark, U are my insparation!!! i hae been learning how to draw all from you. Your the best and thX!!!!

[@pumkinhead24]

@bromotionsk8er on comcast you go on demand and under "the ctting edge" it will say "funimation anime" and then it will say "how to draw manga". it only gets new episodes for new lessonsevery now and then but its easy to get to.

[@triforcekittiemon]

i'm SOO jealous of you you are so talented!people call ME talented,they haven't seen your drawings!

[@outti]

Very good tutorial, Hope you make a video with some poses, like weapon handling, running, jumping, and some fighting acrobatics.

[@MasterSho02]

I find myself always ending up without enough room no matter how small I try to draw. Stopping drawing for years and coming back was a massive mistake. The damn frustration. NEVER STOP! You'll regret it.

[@fangster092]

I suck a Female anatomy but doing it along with you made it less painful and fun. I cant wait for figure class this semester, thank you for the tips and where to pay attention to the figure :)

[@sweetpealadyv]

You are one of hthe best Manga Artists I Have Ever Know! Thank You! You just got yourself a Sub!

[@TilenCurin]

Man...you better have a video on how to draw these extremely good looking faces.

[@BaconWhitEggs]

Very good and helpful video, I struggled with the hand(as I expected) and I wanted my drawing to have a pose where she leaned a kendo training sword on her shoulder but it's really hard to get the elbow right. :/

[@Ferretl0ver444]

I LOVE YOU. Thank you so much for teaching me this!! It helped a lot!!!! Good luck with your graphic novel too.

[@zxxx728]

I'm in the middle of drawing with your video, and I stopped only to tell you that you helped me to real draw. All the time I was drawing bad.

[@Lewisiaisoutofcontext]

That shadow behind her feet, oh gosh, it made the whole picture stand out. It was like she suddenly just jumped out from the paper. O.O

[@AnimeDragon42]

Hi Mark, I've been drawing for not that long and i just couldn't figure out how to draw the female body. I hope ur teachings will help me get better at drawing manga/anime girls

[@TheMschan330]

@kawaiisoap Yes do them an inch, unless you want a different size manga girl.

[@LuckeyWlas]

Great. I found this video very helpful (despite my style provides figures thinner and lengthened and different proportions of the head relative to the body). Thanks c:

[@dragnfly1]

I always wondered if it was better to count the "how many heads tall" based on the full head or the starting circle. So I put some straight-standing pics from my favourite artists into Photoshop to measure it out so I could be influenced by art styles I like... Then I found out not one of them followed remotely consistent measurements or any solid system. The lesson? Do it Mark's way until you're ace enough to just eyeball it.

[@TheTrueSiperx]

wow, this is very good! your tutorials will help out in the manga series i'm working on!

[@kevinxd4350]

Thanks a lot ... ur videos are so usefull ... i learned a lot by just watching ur videos .. thano 😊😊😊😊

[@chromosome24]

ugh these proportions are flawless...

[@drummerboyz55]

you inspire me so much

[@KuroxXxMurata]

Can you possibly do a proportions Tutorial on children or "shorter" characters?

[@StudioGhostUtah]

Could you do a video that covers drawing characters at different angles (like profile and 3/4 angles)?

[@DecisiveDesire]

Never knew how to draw fully body pictures of my characters, this setup looks alot more helpful to do.

[@Ausconvict]

A calculated guess, my reasoning is the simple fact that he so good at what he does already so he experiments with other forms of drawing.

[@krazypeople753]

@tomztoons You have to buy a Tri-pod and it holds your camera still and you can move everywere without any shaking. =D

[@rockstar3541]

:D Thanks for the help. I was doing a drawing for the story I was writing and I of course drew a whole diffrent face,clothing, shoes, pretty much everything. Even the way the hands were placed and how tall she was. But I was messing up with the hip down to the legs. I have always been good at the face and shoulders and breasts. It's down from there that I mess up. So thanks!

[@champion3433]

they are each an inch apart as he said, but you can draw your head and find out how far apart the lines are from there.

[@selfdeprecatingsushi4234]

Thanks for this! Video suggestion: Could you maybe do a video about drawing more of tomboyish girls? It gets to me the way girl are represented in Manga. But, this helps a lot, and I really need to buy ur mangas!

[@DarthKnoll]

For your next video maybe you should show us how to draw several diffenrt combat poses, I can only ever do archer, and a swordsman with the sword held away. Thank for all the great vids, keep it up!

[@Serge382]

Have you done a tutorial on how to set up a particular page layout? And I've seen you draw his eyes, but I bet you draw a pretty good L too. Thank you very much for the help with chibi. I couldn't draw one well for the life of me before your video :3

[@Macnavor]

Try to relate the female thighs with bolwing pins they look a bit alike but without the head (half of the head is a knee) and remember looking the body in the front side makes the left side of the left leg more curved and inwards to the knee but the other leg is complitely opossite so both legs look simetrical.

[@BreakPointSC]

@markcrilley Fantastic guide for us amateurs(like myself) but surely you don't draw up the lines for every single drawing? When is a good time to stop using the lines?

[@Kasokz]

@amelia472 1:34, he's saying each guideline gap is as big as one head of the character, only for females though i think :)

[@tokyochina1]

Mr. Crilley, would you ponder adding the measurements of your guidelines in the dropbox? i have a hard time getting any proportions right if i dont have a slightly accurate framework to go by. Thank you!! Elianah

[@ACE51092]

I got all you all your books to day and just finished reading Brody's Ghost book 2 and was wondering when book 3 will come out

[@LupuLeo]

hello Mark, could you do someday a how to draw hand expressions? that would help alot. thanks

[@technojunkie123]

@MKShadowX I think you just measure the head using a ruler, then make 7 straight lines that are the same distance apart using the measurement from the head with a ruler