How to draw a woman realistically?

And finally, the best for last. We apologize to the readers for putting it at the end, but we believe that drawing a woman is the last level of difficulty in this article.

Do you want to learn how to make a female portrait, make realistic drawings of your models of naked or clothed women? How to draw a woman, your girlfriend, draw a movie character, a famous woman from a photo?

You have to take into account curves , counter curves and rounded shapes.

The upper part of the female body

Let’s see how the contour of the female body is drawn.

Drawing the human body cannot be done without knowing the basics of drawing , including the anatomy of the human body, pencil strokes, blurring, geometric shapes, shadows, and play of light.

You have to start by drawing a sketch, respecting several general rules :

• The hips are wider than the shoulders.
• Body height measures approximately 7 heads.
• Two heads from skull to lower chest.
• Three heads to the navel.
• Four heads to the pubis.
• Seven heads to the soles of the feet.

These are average values ​​to respect the proportions of the human body .

From the front, you have to start by drawing the head and neck and some reference lines for the first four heads, the line of the knees and the feet.

For the shoulders you have to draw two horizontal lines. The woman’s shoulders are sloping and slightly curved.

The trunk of the woman consists of the rib cage , which measures approximately 3.5 heads, between the chin and the navel with the chest in the middle. You can then draw the belly in pencil with an oval circle: the width of this circle depends on the morphology of the model.

Afterwards, the arms in a straight position go from each shoulder to the middle of the thigh, with the elbow at the level of the navel and the wrist at the level of the pubis. To draw them, you can draw arcs of a circle to set the limits of each part.

The lower part of the female body

Below the hips, logically are the thighs and legs ; you must draw two vertical lines obliquely, from the pelvis to the floor.

Halfway between the floor and the pubis, we place the knee of each leg. When sketching a woman’s body, we must keep in mind that like breasts, hips, and buttocks, thighs are generally more voluminous than a man’s.

The legs, to achieve well-proportioned drawings, should not exceed more than 3.5 heads in height . Then you need to make the shape of the calves and thighs, and draw the shins.

And there is only one important part left: depending on the angle of the drawing, the face should not be neglected .

With a few drawing classes and tutorials, you will realize one thing: knowing how to draw releases many creative emotions!