Elly

I took a scan from the Perfect Works book, acquired from CG Picture Shrines, and placed it on my glass table, and in an attempt to study proportions, I traced a rough outline of Elly's figure. I chose the uniform sketch because you get a full body picture of Elly from various directions.

The next pic after is a small doodle that broke down Elly's proportions by "heads". In figure drawing, artists like to break things down in units of "heads". For instance, the forearm will be "about one head long" or the torso is about "one and a half heads high". Basically, what this does is that you draw the head first, and once that's done, you'll be able to draw everything else on the figure in proper proportions.

Any of the pictures may be clicked on for a larger view, if you so choose. Feel free to save them to your own disk if you think they will help you.

First Attempt

This is Elly's figure outline, as traced from the picture. You can see that instead of me doing a detailed trace, I just used bubbles to represent the body parts. I hear that a good way to start any sort of pose is to draw bubbles, or cylinders, to represent the body parts. If you study this picture, you'll notice that the dashes represent the "heads" of the character. The knees are exactly five heads from the top, the armpits fall on a line two heads from the top, and the figure is just slightly less than eight heads tall.

A Little Sketch

Here is a freehand sketch of Elly. It's somewhat small, so I guess it's not a very good example. I tried mapping out the proportions of the figure based on the previous traces. The figure, as a result, doesn't look half-bad, but it's an undeveloped picture and so it's nothing to really look at. Rumours has it, though, that ALL pictures start out as simple wire-framed models and evolve from there.

Attempts at Art

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