female anatomy study
Hey everyone, posting a wip on a female base model. I'm trying to go for a body that has longer legs but still in proportion with a normal human. Not going for an anime body or anything like that. I started this in maya, took it to mudbox and stepped it up 1 level then tweaked it a little. I know the ears and feet are off, but the rest of the body i'm struggling with(not working on the head yet). Any help/comments would be much appreciated.
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Anyways, the upper legs and quad area should probably be bigger to give a more feminine shape. You probably know the toes are too long, but I would make the feet a tad shorter as well.
Oh, and in the side view, it looks like she is off balance a bit. Kind of like she is leaning forward. I would bring the shoulders back more to compensate.
[Edit] On second thought, it could just be a weird perspective angle giving this effect.
Unless you have some really hardcore lensedistortion going on the proportions of your woman are a bit off.
I took the old version, the new one did not look much different and there was no front view.
The ideal greek size of a human is 8 heads, hardly anyone is 8 heads tall, let alone women.
Your woman looks to be 8.3ish heads. Most women are 7ish to 7,5 heads in proportion.
As a rule of thumb you can say that first head down is nipple height, then navel, then crotch.
Usually women have shorter legs then men proportionally as well, however the longest bone in the human body is the upper leg bone, in your version the lower leg looks longer than the upper one, needs to be fixed.
Her neck also is MASSIVE for a woman, so I edited that a bit as well.
Also the Face looks a bit manly. Here I suggest just looking at lots of photos of naturally beautiful women and comparing their faces to yours. You also have a quite generic face going on.
Might as well fix that and give her some more personality
Agreeing with Brads crit on the hips and such and edited it accordingly.
Keep it up.
Looking back at the first pass I think it used to be originally 9 heads...haha. I've been looking at a lot of naked women and noticed that some skinny girls inside thighs touch and some have a decent gap. I think I like the gap look more.
As far as the head i'm not touching that until i can get the body down, it can be a tranny until then. I'll call her Tamali Shemaley.
Do the shoulders also need to be brought in or wider?
imho one of the best anatomy books outthere
Yup, that's the one. I think it is only available in German tho, but even if you do not know German, it would be helpful for the pictures in it.
The book really nicely describes each segment like "the shoulder", "the neck" and so on. Awesome schematics of the bones and such, and how everything works together. If you know German it is an excellent investment, if you don't know German it's still good.