SQUATTING POSE & BENT KNEE Leg Mapping (How To Draw)
Summary
TLDRIn this tutorial, artist Mikey demonstrates how to draw anime and manga characters in squatting positions using basic shapes to construct the anatomy. He emphasizes the importance of weight distribution, particularly through the heels, and provides a step-by-step guide on drawing the torso, hips, legs, and feet. Mikey also discusses the squishing and bulging of muscles in such poses, offering tips for achieving a natural and dynamic look. The tutorial is part one of a series and aims to be both educational and safe for work, with more complex poses to be explored in future videos.
Takeaways
- 🎨 The tutorial focuses on drawing anime and manga characters in a squatting position using basic shapes for structure and simplicity.
- ✏️ The artist, Mikey, uses a disposable mechanical pencil on printer paper to demonstrate the drawing process.
- 🏋️ The concept of weight distribution is emphasized, particularly how it affects the character's squatting posture and anatomy.
- 🧘 The tutorial covers closed leg squats and kneeling positions, with a plan to address wider splits in a future tutorial.
- 👥 Character safety and appropriateness for all audiences are considered when demonstrating squatting poses.
- 🔍 The importance of using basic shapes and building blocks to construct the character's body is highlighted for clarity and ease of learning.
- 💃 The application of anatomy and weight distribution extends beyond anime and manga, making it useful for life study and general illustration.
- 🎥 A time-lapse section is included to show the cleanup and refinement process of the initial sketch.
- 📚 References and photoshop files used in the tutorial are available for patrons on Mikey's Patreon page.
- 🎨 The tutorial also briefly touches on how to draw the legs and feet in relation to the squatting pose.
- 💌 Mikey expresses gratitude to patrons for their support, which enables the creation of free drawing tutorials.
Q & A
What is the main focus of the tutorial?
-The main focus of the tutorial is to teach how to draw anime and manga characters in a squatting position using basic shapes and considering body weight distribution.
What type of paper and pencil does the artist use for the tutorial?
-The artist uses printer paper with a number of sheets and a super cheap, disposable mechanical pencil.
How does the artist approach the weight of the character in a squatting position?
-The artist approaches the weight by imagining it sitting down through the headline and going all the way down to the feet, especially when the character is resting on the back of their heels.
What is the significance of the character's knees being together in the tutorial?
-The character's knees being together ensures that the content is safe for work and appropriate, possibly for a two-part tutorial series where the artist will cover more complex squatting positions in the future.
What is the purpose of the basic shapes used in the tutorial?
-The basic shapes are used to construct the character's anatomy and posture without making the drawing overly complicated, while still achieving a correct representation of the squatting position.
How does the artist handle the depiction of the legs in a squatting position?
-The artist focuses on the weight line going down the middle of the character, imagining the weight resting on the back of the heels, and uses cylinders and teardrop shapes to represent the thighs and calves, respectively.
What additional resources does the artist provide for learning how to draw legs?
-The artist refers to a previous in-depth tutorial on how to draw legs, including the musculature and structure, which is available with a pop-up on the screen.
What is the artist's approach to cleaning up the sketch?
-The artist uses a time-lapse to tidy up the lines, focusing on clarifying the construction and ensuring the anatomy is correct, while keeping the sketch relatively loose for exploration.
How does the artist address the depiction of the character's feet?
-The artist acknowledges that the depiction of the feet is not perfect but provides enough guidance to give an idea of what's going on, using basic shapes to represent the heels and toes.
What is the artist's advice for those who are new to drawing?
-The artist encourages new learners to try drawing as it can be therapeutic and a way to take one's mind off life struggles, suggesting that even if they don't end up loving it, the experience is worth trying.
How can viewers access the artist's full pack of references and tutorials?
-Viewers can access the full pack of references and tutorials by becoming a patron on Patreon for just a dollar, as mentioned by the artist.
Outlines
🎨 Introduction to Drawing Anime Characters in Squatting Positions
The video begins with an introduction to a tutorial on drawing anime and manga characters in squatting positions. The artist, Mikey, explains that the focus will be on using basic shapes to construct the character's anatomy accurately without overcomplicating the process. He emphasizes the importance of understanding weight distribution in a squatting pose, particularly how the character's weight sits through the heels. The artist uses a disposable mechanical pencil on printer paper to demonstrate the technique and mentions that the tutorial might be part one of a two-part series. He also references previous tutorials on drawing legs and promises to make all reference materials available to patrons on Patreon.
📐 Constructing the Character's Anatomy and Weight Distribution
In this paragraph, the artist delves into the specifics of constructing the character's anatomy, starting with the spine's curve and the torso's shape. He discusses the importance of considering the weight distribution when drawing a character squatting, noting how the body weight affects the positioning of the legs and feet. The artist uses basic shapes to build the character's legs, focusing on the knees, calves, and feet. He explains the concept of using 'building blocks' to create the legs and emphasizes the need to adjust the shapes to reflect the character's weight and pose. The artist also mentions that the tutorial will cover different squatting positions, including closed legs and wider splits, and encourages viewers to explore these variations in their own drawings.
🖌️ Drawing the Hip and Leg Structure
The artist continues the tutorial by focusing on the hip and leg structure of the character. He explains how to draw the hip area using an elliptical shape and how the weight of the character affects the shape of the bum and the positioning of the feet. The artist uses a combination of straight lines and curves to create the hip and leg structure, emphasizing the importance of maintaining the character's balance and weight distribution. He also discusses the interaction between the leg muscles and how they change when the character is squatting, including the bulging and squishing of muscles. The artist encourages viewers to use these guidelines to create their own squatting poses, with a focus on achieving a natural and balanced look.
🌟 Squatting Poses: Front and Open Angles
In this section, the artist shifts the focus to drawing the character from a front and open angle, explaining how to use basic shapes to create a natural-looking squatting pose. He discusses the positioning of the hips, the shape of the bum, and the interaction between the legs and the rest of the body. The artist emphasizes the importance of considering the weight distribution and how it affects the shape of the character's body. He also talks about the use of guidelines to help with the construction of the pose and how to adjust these guidelines as the drawing progresses. The artist encourages viewers to practice drawing squatting poses from different angles and to experiment with various leg positions to gain a better understanding of the character's anatomy and weight distribution.
📊 Squatting Poses: Squashed Cylinders and Leg Anatomy
The artist continues to elaborate on the anatomy of the legs and the concept of squashed cylinders in the context of drawing squatting poses. He explains how to visualize the thigh and calf muscles as cylinders that change shape according to the character's pose. The artist discusses the knee joint as a hinge and how the leg muscles bulge and flatten in response to the character's weight distribution. He provides detailed instructions on how to draw the calves, emphasizing the squishing effect that occurs when the legs are pressed together. The artist also touches on the importance of considering the character's posture and how it affects the overall appearance of the squatting pose.
🎨 Finalizing the Squatting Pose and Upcoming Tutorials
The artist concludes the tutorial by demonstrating how to finalize the squatting pose, focusing on the details of the knees, calves, and feet. He explains how to adjust the shapes to accurately represent the weight distribution and the interaction between the legs. The artist also provides a quick example of a squatting pose from the front, highlighting the importance of maintaining the character's balance and weight distribution. He mentions upcoming tutorials that will cover more complex squatting positions, such as wide splayed leg squats and splits, and encourages viewers to subscribe to catch these future lessons. The artist expresses gratitude to his patrons on Patreon, who support the creation of free drawing tutorials, and invites viewers to suggest what to draw next in the comments section.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Anime and Manga Characters
💡Squatting Position
💡Basic Shapes
💡Weight Distribution
💡Anatomy
💡Reference Sheets
💡Patreon
💡Tutorial Series
💡Character Proportions
💡Musculature
Highlights
The tutorial focuses on drawing anime and manga characters in a squatting position using basic shapes.
The importance of understanding weight distribution in a character's pose is emphasized, particularly when squatting.
The tutorial suggests using a cheap, disposable mechanical pencil and printer paper for practicing.
The process of drawing starts with a rough line to represent the weight and balance of the character.
The character's body weight should be depicted as sitting through the heels when squatting.
The tutorial covers the anatomy and structure of legs in a squatting position, including the knees and thighs.
The artist uses basic shapes to construct the torso and hips, focusing on the spine's curve and the hip's bucket area.
The tutorial provides a step-by-step approach to drawing the legs, emphasizing the importance of the knee joint and calf muscles.
The artist explains how to depict the interaction between different parts of the leg when in a squatting position.
The tutorial includes a time-lapse segment to demonstrate the cleaning up of sketch lines and finalizing the drawing.
The artist provides examples of drawing squatting characters from the front and from different angles.
The tutorial discusses the concept of 'squish' and 'squeeze' in the depiction of muscles and body parts in a squatting pose.
The artist emphasizes the therapeutic benefits of drawing and encourages viewers to try it out.
The tutorial mentions the availability of reference sheets and photoshop files for patrons on Patreon.
The artist plans to cover more complex squatting positions, such as wide splayed leg squats and splits, in future tutorials.
The tutorial concludes with a call to action for viewers to subscribe and comment on what they would like to see in future drawing tutorials.
Transcripts
artwork critiques photoshop files and
reference sheets are all available on my
patreon hey there guys and girls i hope
you're doing well my name's mikey
welcome back to my room it's time for
another tutorial and today we're going
to be taking a look at how to draw your
own anime and manga characters down low
in a squatting position we're going to
use some basic shapes to put this
together just enough that it's going to
look correct without being overly
complicated but because this is
essentially structuring anatomy this is
also going to be useful for any forms of
life study or general illustration so
i'm just going to go ahead and get
cracking with a spare piece of paper to
rest my hand on and a super cheap
disposable mechanical pencil i'm just
using printer paper here with a number
of sheets and the very first thing that
i just want to talk through is going to
be weight that is when you've got a
character who's squatting down low their
body weight is essentially going to be
sitting down through the headline
and if they're resting down on the back
of their heels that's going to go all
the way down to the feet so i'm just
doing a very vague rough line here i'm
going to essentially start working a lot
more firmly than i usually do and i'm
going to try to keep things
relatively quick but it does mean they
might come out relatively rough as well
and we're going to start off with a
character where we're looking just a
little bit behind but i just want to
show you how i think about that body
weight now this is going to be
essentially part one perhaps of a
two-part tutorial series where we talk
about squatting characters in this
example i'm going to be keeping uh the
knees together the legs essentially
closed in low squats and kneeling
positions just so that everything is
relatively safe for work feeling and
we'll take a look at wider splits and
what's going on with the anatomy on the
inside of the flies and so on in another
tutorial further down the line
not to mention as well we've already
covered uh a in-depth how to draw legs
tutorial where we actually go over the
musculature and the structure of what's
going on around the legs especially how
to break things down and keep it simple
for the knees of your characters that's
available probably with a little pop-up
in the corner of your screen there so
i'm going to assume that you know a
little bit of that just so that we can
break down the rest of what's going on
into hopefully a relatively easy process
so what i'm going to do here is i'm
going gonna think about the curve of the
spine and sweep a little bit in
just here as i come down from my
neckline and then i'm gonna pop out
relatively generously as we go into the
lower part of the torso
and i'm still using some very quick
simple basic building blocks for this as
we look just behind this character's
shoulder line again when it comes to the
building blocks of torsos and how to
break down how to draw bodies in nice
big simple shapes we've covered all of
this before in a whole load of tutorials
playlist hopefully available somewhere
on the right and of course everything
that we do here today i will make a copy
of everything we draw available over for
the patrons on patreon where you can get
the entire pack of all the references
for just a dollar
so here i've got
a very basic back situation i might
imagine that we've got a bit of bum
curve going down around about here
into this part of the hip bucket area
and the middle of the spine just going
to adjust that to go a little bit
further up there and then the shoulder
line that's going to be popping one
circle off around about there
this shoulder circle is going to be
sitting a bit more forward
somewhere
over here i'm going to be focusing
really around the legs hips all the way
down to the feet because that's the area
that's doing some very interesting
things when we draw our characters
squatting down especially if you're
trying to
maybe depict an anime or manga character
who is out on the dance floor or maybe
with a partner doing something more
private in a bedroom and they're really
just bringing all of that business all
right down and low on the whole
situation so let's just kind of work out
what's going there i'm just going to get
some very basic arms out of the way as
well i go down to around about the
bottom of the
chest sphere that we're kind of working
on that elliptical shape to bring it all
together
but i just want to focus on these legs
now i've got this weight line now that
goes down the middle of this character
and i want that weight to sit on the
back of the heels so i'm going to
imagine that we've got
a very vague circle here or one of the
feet the heel part of that might just be
sectioned off loosely here again i'm
working a little bit more firmly than i
usually do
usually i'd work very lightly when it
comes to these slightly more interesting
poses because we like to explore with
some test lines all over the place and
then you can firm up for ones that seem
to be working get rid of ones that don't
seem to be doing the job
i'm also just going to show here the
side
of the bucket of the hips as we come
down there just slowly building up and
adding to the definition of these shapes
there we go and with this foot here i'm
just going to come down and imagine that
it's balancing on the toes on the front
so although we might have this large
generous vaguely triangular shape that
comes down here it's actually just going
to pop at about 90 degrees
if you've got the toe section going off
there this isn't how to draw feet
tutorial which is my excuse for saying
this will not be perfect but hopefully
it's going to be just right enough to
give you an idea of what's going on so
i've got that weight resting down on
that foot haven't even worried about the
legs yet i'm going to go ahead and just
get another one right about here as well
coming down on that edge let's just make
that the under part of the heel now
whether you're drawing shoes or this is
going to be bare feet use these building
blocks as a starting point and you can
build up from there to see what you like
and now if i imagine that right we've
got our level character level shoulders
there's not much contrapostel going on
they've got level hips as well and the
joint's going to come out of this kind
of bucket hip area and pop out for the
legs
now depending on how you kind of measure
out the legs for your character and so
on i just like to make sure that the
entire leg section is going to be at
least about the entire body section so i
might just imagine that halfway we'll
take things from about the middle of the
hip and we'll work our way down and
around so at half of this distance going
up here might be how far i'm going to
pop out here but i'm going to fall
shorten it a little bit i'm going to go
about this far out
and then i'm going to just take it easy
from there because we're going to block
everything back
and i've got a straight line here to
indicate the direction of the leg and i
usually drop a circle right on the end
for that to be our kneecap but when legs
bend and again do check out my how to
draw strong legs tutorial we talk all
about this um things start to move
around so my kneecap circle
is actually going to be around about
here i've gone lower and then when i
come and follow a line back to this part
of the leg i'm coming off the bottom of
that circle line instead of meeting both
of them perfectly in the middle
now i'm still thinking about a big
generous cylindrical shape that's going
to be the top part of the legs and the
thighs and so on but i'm going to
squeeze it a little bit as well so it's
starting to flatten out so let's start
off with a big cylinder that's coming
forward here just a guideline simple
basic shape that's going out over the
calf muscles quite nicely before
sweeping down depending on how generous
you're making your characters i might
just come in a little bit lower in fact
and again don't be scared to have loads
of test lines until you find out what
you do and don't like don't be overly
beholden to any of your initial guides
they're here to help you not here to
hinder you or lock you into place i'm
going to sweep down towards that knee
area
and then just generously curve out
because it's a cylinder remember
and then i might just have a line that's
just a guide
very lightly coming up there because
we're gonna change that shape in just a
moment then in a very similar way okay
let's come up from here we've got the
hard shin bone
it should take us to the bottom of this
circle round about there
but actually i'm going to imagine that
the calf muscle which we often draw is a
kind of teardrop coming down or this is
getting really squeezed now
so i'm going to
draw this kind of
big
squeezing slightly eggish lump around
about here just like so and i'm not
coming all the way down the leg i'm just
bringing it to around about there and
i'm going to now imagine that okay
because this part of the muscle is
popping up and squeezing here
we're following this line to show how
these two sections of the leg interact
as they meet back on each other and then
maybe that's going to squeeze down and
the top part of the leg that sits on top
is going to cover a bit more of this
area especially as the bum
sinks down
over the back of that foot
so i've got a curve here where i'm
actually bumping up into that area to
represent that section of the calf then
i can just firm my way up along this
line here and you'll notice i'm rotating
my hand all the way around the place if
it helps to give me a gentler better
curving line but i'm enjoying a bit more
to get a smooth flow of things
and then as we go up to the knee here
you can kind of imagine because of the
way the muscles are bulging and we're
going to talk about this
a little bit more on the side of the
knee i'm actually just imagining a faint
squeeze there
and then the kneecap almost separately
with its own series of ligaments and
bits and interesting shapes that are
going on is then popping out beyond that
with a slightly flatter tip
just like so
so i might not draw this line shape here
depending on how i'm shading but i'm
going to certainly show that things are
projecting
out past there just like that and in
terms of this torso and top area well
we've covered that a lot before i will
come in on a little bit of time lapse
and clean all of that up in just a
moment but let's focus on what's going
on down here this is where the action
seems to be we've got then the rest of
our bum area here i'm going to sweep
around for the other cheek which is
a bit like a golden ratio we start off
shallow and then we get that curve going
tighter and tighter before we squeeze
into the underside of the bum
just like so
and then again down onto those feet or
heels or depending what's going on with
shoes or barefoot so that's what i'm
imagining here just imagine for that
squeezing away from us
just like so and the musculature
is squeezing out the side so i'm just
putting this little surface line show it
as a second bit of extra bump there
and then squeezing out on that calf
muscle there
before we aim back down towards the shin
line
so that's what's going on in terms of
how i like to think about the weight i
like to actually go right through the
spine line and then sink things right
over the feet if this character is
putting all of their body weight down on
the feet accordingly
and let's take a look at a slightly more
sort of front and open angle and this is
where we're kind of going to enter into
the territory where we're using these
basic shapes but also working around
these forms and trying to get these nice
organic squeezes and squishy feelings in
certain areas but hopefully we can break
that down i'm going to start off with a
line then or the hips let's go
across
here
like so
and then if you imagine that this is my
hip line i've just got that kind of
elliptical shape on its side that helps
me very loosely guide out what's going
to be the bucket area of the hips
themselves again i'm trying to go quick
and firmly
also guys whilst we are putting this
together thank you so much as ever for
subscribing to the channel and i said
we'd do this a while ago we certainly
will be i'm going to do a proper thank
you video for over a million subscribers
it's absolutely amazing and i really do
appreciate it but i do just love the
fact that um you guys are trying to get
into drawing now we're doing closed leg
uh squatting positions today i will do a
further video on wide leg stuff uh which
is a little bit less salubrious but this
is just going to be nice and family
friendly for the moment um but yeah i'm
not afraid to use boobs to try to
convince you guys to get into drawing
because i find it very therapeutic it
can take your mind off of life struggles
you don't have to love it but i do want
you to try it because you might really
like it so there you go thank you very
much for following along
now
i'm just going to imagine right i've got
the bone of the hip here and i'm going
to bring this a little bit further out
on this side as well
and then the front center line might be
just the lower part of the abdominal
wall we've got a little bit of front
tummy there
maybe we've got the belly button
somewhere in his cross zone now i'm just
going to come out and sweep down
before popping down to the bottom part
of the torso and private sphere and then
i'm just going to sweep in just about
the arc that we like to do and again
this is all just part of my guide to
help me in just a moment where i come
down here and inversely with a more
concave line pop up over on this side as
well so these are our bony areas of the
hips here which aren't going to flex
just up here
and just over here everything else might
be squishing around and having a lot
more fun
so if i want to kind of work out how to
evenly keep things going i've got my
line that's going right across here and
i'm going to keep things at that lateral
feeling so i might have my legs popping
out
right over to here if the knee is
sticking out accordingly but that line
is still
parallel to this one
and i could just draw a little
box shape to help guide how i'm just
filling in that particular zone but
remember everything's going to come back
right down on this center line of weight
so i know if i'm going to be popping the
feet somewhere vaguely around about here
and i'm just going to put a little box
to be the back parts of the feet just
like we've got here and maybe just
something that might indicate where the
toes are going this is just a very loose
guide to help me i might put these feet
a little further apart um but let's see
what's going on here
i'm going to pop all the way out
from this joint i'm going to imagine a
nice round circle to be our kneecap area
here
i'm just popping
this here
to help guide what i'm going to connect
later being very generous with the size
of that circle and actually let me just
firm that up you a little bit further
and then a very similar thing over here
let's imagine this legs popping out on
that side just going to
get a nice generous guide circle going
to bring my hand just a touch further
down the length for the pencil there
just so we've got that in place a tiny
bit more accurately whenever i sketch
very loosely i put my hand quite fab far
back up this pencil to loosely guard
around and then i try to bring it back
down and then when we're cracking on
and now again i'm going to think firstly
just about those squashed cylinders
let's imagine that we start off around
about here where the knee is
there's a kind of circular shape the end
of that cylinder i'm going to just curve
and sweep that up
and around and down
towards where we meet back in over here
to what might be a hip flexor around
about this point and i'm going to get
very generous around the outside edge
because now this cylinder is describing
a squeeze outward of all of the thigh
muscle as it leads its way around to the
side of the bum so even though we've got
this shape coming down here in the hip
guide the cylinder
might sweep all the way around here and
i'm being a bit
more straight with this curve a bit more
shallow as it curves around and then
coming a little bit thicker and deeper
and then back up as we reach our way
around the bottom part
just like so
and from where it tucks right into the
body here i'm just going to imagine okay
let's get a little surface line to help
describe
where that part is leg before it gets
into hip and meets around the side of
the bottom and then i'm going to do a
similar thing over here are a little bit
more
side on to the inside edge of this one
i'm still going to keep the shapes
relatively the same that is
cylinder is a little bit smaller at this
end and it's a little bit larger as it
meets in this end and it's not a perfect
circle getting flattened into an ellipse
and as it meets into the body here this
is probably gonna just curve here
on this side in
before it starts to go down and then
just like i've got here let's sweep
nice and generously
up and around like so
we're meeting towards this knee circle
joint but we're going to talk about that
in just a quick sec
up down and around and then in a very
similar way i'm going not down too far
relatively levelly in and this is as a
guide because again we're going to
squeeze things around in just a moment
so there's those both legs going
forwards now let's get down on the
underside
now when it comes to the calf muscles as
they squeeze in these guys squeeze right
out and what i actually think of doing
as we make our way back towards the legs
fair is i'm just gonna travel back a
little bit in this direction underneath
this leg because we're looking at a
three-quarters view on top of things and
i'm just going to actually start to draw
an ellipse right around under here
very shallow
just like so
like this
getting that shape in there
that's going to help me map around all
this squeeze i'm going to do a similar
thing here i'm coming back in towards
the body from underneath the circle but
i'm already thinking about this
elliptical
squeeze shape
just like so
okay slowly getting there and then this
is going to follow back again to the
back of the foot so um this heel might
all be hidden away from us as this legs
down here you can see already i'm
building past my guidelines which is
absolutely fine as long as it feels
overall it's okay with its mass and its
weight you're going to be just fine
and then i'm going to come down and just
put a foot that's heading straight
down-ish like so
and then i'm just going to
imagine we've got a little part of that
section that's a
big toe around about here
the rest of it's coming in over there
again i'll just decide exactly how much
i want to work around that when i drop
into some time lapse and then this leg
as well is still coming back in and
under here
i'm curving that back through i'm still
imagining that just like we had up here
and up here there's a separate line
popping back down through there but i'm
not drawing it in because it's going to
over confuse what's going on with our
line work and because it's a lot of
organic shapes which are squishing at
the moment we can get a way of just
squishing out this calf before we make
our way right back down past here
get the other foot in so i'm going to go
back down around about here
and imagine again
that foot's coming out
around about there it might come out in
the form of one big toe
separated
with all of the smaller ones into a foot
that's a paddle shape going up there
slightly better version of what i've
just been doing on this side so let's
just clean that up
very quickly
just like so
and then pop back down again with that
guide let's get back in under there
excuse me
and get a nice front toe area bit more
confidently there just these larger
shapes it will work with and expand out
from
so what's going on with the knees
because this is the area that usually
catches people out and it certainly did
me
i'm imagining the kneecap
still as a hinge more than a sphere
so i might be imagining a shape that's
popping out here
but isn't as wide and thick as that
circle
just a little semi-circle hinge shape
there and then a similar one here a
semi-circle hinge a little bit shallower
shape
here and this is the main mass of the
knee which is protruding out from us
the rest is going to sweep down here
and meet into the underside as it curves
back in
and the muscles of the leg are coming
down and then slightly flattening out
just before they meet into there
because they're kind of building into
the top part of the joint not right over
the tip
and the bit that i just want to have a
quick look at is that squish we've got
this calf muscle here squishing outwards
okay great let's remember that this part
is going to be all part of our squished
line as it comes out and around
it sticks out here
and it also bulges up around here on the
top part of the leg remember this is
creating an extra bit of squeeze here
and an extra bit of squeeze there that
normally wouldn't be in place when
you're standing up with your character
and in a similar vein over here i'm just
going to
come up to around about here on the
inside of the leg not putting all of
that outside calf muscle in i'm meeting
this one a bit more halfway we're still
yeah
getting this extra internal squish of
all the muscle here and this extra
squish off the calf as they're pressing
with all that body weight onto each
other
but this part of the leg is going to go
down here
and even there
and then again just imagine that squish
is bulging here
and bulging there and everything else is
going a bit more flatly
over
top
come down there
and the rest sweeps under so there we've
got that line and over here very loosely
describe our calf line here
squish squish and then back under
nothing too crazy i'm just going to get
that bulge to just pop out
a little bit before i sweep into that
straight line but everything's
disappearing away as it goes underneath
the leg down towards the ankle and maybe
a little bit more heel popping off
outside the back there then in terms of
just tidying this up let's get some
slight abdominal wall here before we go
down into the privates at the front
similar thing just down that side
we've got that hard area of the hip here
and here we've done very specifically
good hips and bum tutorials and how to
draw hips and torsos before it's all
there in my big tutorials playlist but
now we've got these legs popping through
and the lines that i'm still thinking
about is this
curving over to this
popping out a bit more straightly and
flattening at the end here
before it sinks back in and under
curves around into that line back to the
foot where the body weight is going to
be
and then in this inside edge we've got
the hip flexor where it meets
moving out over the top
popping out of the knee joint it
squeezes a little bit more forward just
check that other leg tutorial
and then back in as we go back around
so what i'm going to do guys is i'm
going to drop into a little bit of time
lapse i'm going to tidy up these lines
because there is a lot of construction
here just to kind of clarify exactly
what's going on and i'm going to just
give you a very quick example of a
squatting pose from the front
and maybe a couple more when a character
is leaning a bit further back all the
knees are going to be together so don't
worry it's kind of up skirtish but
nothing too lewd and also just going to
focus on a really simple version here
keep an eye on how i just start from the
hips
draw the knees in place and then build
out everything from there okay guys i'll
see you in just a sec
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hey there guys and welcome back so yeah
hopefully during the time lapse that's
given you a bit of an idea of how i'm
constructing through this process when
we've got a character who's squatting
down and there's all sorts of squeeze
happening sure you can take some time
and try to very loosely sketch out from
your building blocks for correct anatomy
for everything with a lot of very light
strokes which help you explore what
you're going to end up keeping and what
you're going to get rid of obviously
we'd completely clean this up if we were
going to take this any further i've got
the hinge joint feeling for the knees
which when the legs are completely bent
are going to be halfway between the top
point and the bottom that's why with
stuff over here i actually put that
guideline circle down below the top leg
and above the bottom one just so that we
can see that everything squeezes and
protrudes i also just shaved a little
bit off the end here to flatten out that
shape to show that joint obviously we
don't have to go too firmly like that
but if you want to try to get it feeling
right remember that the flesh on either
side of the leg is going to squish right
at the top here and right down of the
calf and on the inside edge you get some
interesting kind of up and down shape
line here going on and on the outside
don't worry too much you can just focus
on the bulge of the calf cutting up and
into the otherwise guide shaped cylinder
of the top part of the leg
then i just wanted to show things from
the front this is obviously one of the
most common slightly up skirtish kind of
shots that you might get with this
character their weight is still mostly
on their feet and as we look up you can
see that i just started things off with
these circles for the knees worked out
that the
area for the feet and the heel is going
to be sitting underneath the bum part of
the hip and then just join them together
and i'm still thinking about these
teardrop shapes for the calf muscle that
comes out from the knee but you'll
notice i've squeezed them out quite
generously to show how they're getting
flattened against the other part of the
leg
and also we've still got some space for
the inside of the privates in the center
of the hips here as this fly shape i've
actually if you can see on this
guideline gone a little bit convex there
swept in before i've swept back out and
around to join it up and then loads of
generous extra curves on the outside to
actually catch the rest of the bum where
it all joins into the hips and also very
similar example where i've really broken
that down basically
this example this character is now
tilted even further back their body
weight might be resting a bit more in
their bum might be that they've got
their hands behind them the legs split a
little bit further out and again we can
now just see that okay
it's still basically the guide blocks
starting with a hip line joining things
up to a big generous knee circle and
down to the feet and then i'm just
thinking these big sweeping cylindrical
shapes at the front or the underside of
the back of the leg then these big
cylindrical shapes going around of these
big curving ones for the underside of
the bottom area and again squeezing out
those teardrop shapes as we come down
away from the knee squeeze of the calf
before they straighten out towards the
bottom of the leg and go down to our
rather basic feet and a similar example
here where we've just got things popping
towards us but the knees are popping a
little bit further up her feet are a bit
more splayed we're kind of trying to do
things at an angle again i'm kind of
jutting a little bit
too firmly perhaps over the top of this
kneecap just over here i might want to
just slowly squeeze that edge back down
a little bit but otherwise that is what
you want to be thinking about when it
comes to getting those characters no
squatting positions
like i mentioned we're going to look at
some more examples where we've got
wide splayed leg squats and splits and
so on and the interesting things for the
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