This is the revised and final version of this tutorial, though some details are not included – I'm including them exclusively in the book 
Hands have their own tutorial here:
And feet here:
All my tutorials are listed here: [link]
Get all of my human anatomy tutorials in one convenient book or e-book!
Some advice to use this tutorial:
Use the above guide as a supplement to gesture drawing. Reading and memorizing all this won't help you as much as sketching from life; this guide simply provides the understanding that will make your sketching a learning experience rather than a random process. So, carry a sketchbook around and gesture-draw people around you, especially people in motion. This way you are forced to use fast gesture drawing and not go obsessive over the details, and that is how you can achieve a solid grounding in grasping form and movement before moving on to worrying about surface additions such as clothing and expression. Think of the human body as an assortment of volumes, not as lines put together. This will change your life, trust me.
See also this article: [link]
Now about the tutorial itself. It is large, so if you find it intimidating do start with my much smaller guide right here: [link]
Bibliography:
Drawing the Head and Figure, Jack Hamm
Le dessin anatomique facile, Burne Hogarth
Experience and (believe it or not) martial arts
Hands have their own tutorial here:
And feet here:
All my tutorials are listed here: [link]
Get all of my human anatomy tutorials in one convenient book or e-book!
Some advice to use this tutorial:
Use the above guide as a supplement to gesture drawing. Reading and memorizing all this won't help you as much as sketching from life; this guide simply provides the understanding that will make your sketching a learning experience rather than a random process. So, carry a sketchbook around and gesture-draw people around you, especially people in motion. This way you are forced to use fast gesture drawing and not go obsessive over the details, and that is how you can achieve a solid grounding in grasping form and movement before moving on to worrying about surface additions such as clothing and expression. Think of the human body as an assortment of volumes, not as lines put together. This will change your life, trust me.
See also this article: [link]
Now about the tutorial itself. It is large, so if you find it intimidating do start with my much smaller guide right here: [link]
Bibliography:
Drawing the Head and Figure, Jack Hamm
Le dessin anatomique facile, Burne Hogarth
Experience and (believe it or not) martial arts
I've just read the description, and it already blew my mind!
Looks like there's a lot of work to do, but who's to say it's not going to be fun! Moreover I can hardly wait to practice this golden knowledge that I have yet to learn!
Thanks for this!
I measured many animated movie characters to see their disproportions.
I was amazed.
The proportions were just stretched.
Some heads were narrower, some were wider.
Chin could be bigger than forehead, or opposite.
I measured "Code lyoko", "Despicable me", "Atlantis: The Lost Empire", "Titan After Earth", "Ghost in the shell" and "Anastasia".
"Titan After Earth", "Atlantis: The Lost Empire" and"Anastasia" had least face/ body reshaping, making them much more realistic, compared to "Despicable me" and "Code Lyoko".
Other movies had big foreheads or big chins. And very wide or very narrow heads.
But Now I see. Artists just play with one human anatomy template, creating various character design.
Now I see, that every character which was human is human after all.
They all come from the same template.
I was blind before I measured them with this guide.
Thanks for this guide.
Before this guide, I was yelling and hating
"Despicable me" for its style and not only this movie.
But now my hate is gone.
I started to understand more.
What a fool I was.
One thing though, doesn't the distance between the wrist and the elbow remain the same when the arm is bent or straightened?