Body proportions

The body proportions are an important tool in painting and in drawing. Means easy einprägbarer ratios between the lengths of various body parts, the artist can represent a real-life people.

With the design of aesthetic or natural body proportions especially Leonardo have excelled da Vinci ( Vitruvian Man ) and Le Corbusier ( Modulor ). Has been criticized on both that they looked at the proportions of men as a measure of all things.

In medicine, the body proportions for the definition of wholesale or short stature of importance. Other possible deviations from the average proportions are the asymmetric growth of the body halves and acromegaly. The latter can be expressed in selectively distorted body proportions or in generellem tall stature.

The body

The following information will help to draw a person standing upright with respect to the correctly size ratios:

  • The average adult figure is seven to 7.5 head sizes large. The idealized, " heroic " size - for example, for sculptures - is eight heads tall: from crown to chin ( head length)
  • From there to the center of the chest (approximately at the level of the nipples )
  • From there to the navel
  • From there to the pubic area
  • From there up to mid-thigh
  • From there to just below the knee
  • From there up to mid-calf
  • From there to the sole of the foot
  • The pubic area is located in the center of the body.
  • The lower leg of the same length as the thigh.
  • The limply hanging arms are so long that the fingertips reach the mid-thigh. The span of the arms ( from fingertip to fingertip of the middle finger ) corresponds to the total body size.
  • The foot length is about as long as the forearm without the hand.

Head and face

To determine the volume of the skull, draw a rectangle with an aspect ratio of 2:3. Then dividing the length into three equal portions, and proposes a circle with a radius of one-third of the length. The diameter corresponding to the maximum width of the skull. The basic volume of the smaller facial skeleton is obtained by a circle whose center lies between the axis of the eye and chin. The basic shape of the face is formed by tangential links between the two circles. The head is as wide as five eyes. The axis of the eye is located at half the height of the head; the distance between the eyes is an eye width. The face can be divided into three parts: From head to eyebrow, from there to the nose base and from there to the chin. The distance from the corner of his mouth to the corner of the eye is as large as the ear is high. The nasal base is as wide as an eye.

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