Female Body - Roareye Black

Before the tutorial starts, a brief note. This is a modelling workshop and as such, it will not show how to make one specific art piece, but instead pose different bodyparts from different angles using different techniques. As such, the work will be unshaded to show the structure of the work, and it will be up to you to practice this knowledge and apply it to your own artwork.


To begin with, you need to set up the basic structure of the body. A female body is different to a male one, as it has more curves to accomodate chilbirth (At the hips) and lactation (At the breasts). These are the two most obvious differences, however the shoulders are also more slight and rounded. However I will show you the anatomical front-view perspective of a female. First you need to build a large circle which will be the roundness of the hips. Above this you need the waist which should be (Unless you're creating a fatter character) thinner than the hips. Some people stylise this as incredibly thin to exaggurate the breasts and hips, however in reality it is normally not much thinner than an eighth (1/8th) of the hip width. You'll also need two smaller circles as your basic breastline. This is a basic setup, and is edittable.


Once you have completed the basic construction lines, you can use another colour to make the basic body form out of straight lines. The sides of the big circle (Always go from the top of the circle's sides, not the middle or bottom) will be the hip-bone. Don't go to the far edges of the breasts, because of gravity they would seperate and (if B Cup or bigger) break the outline of the ribs. Women may find the breast's beginnings (Remember the circle is a basic form of the main meat of the breast, not the finished shape) easier as they can study their own, however it generally starts just above the armpit, gravity pushing the bulk downwards. The placement of these would reflect the size of the breasts. Halfway up the ribcage would be a small B cup, at the base of the ribs would be a big E cup at least, around the belly button is just absurd, like some odd J cup or something (Even I dunno that one XD).


You need to start putting basic details in now. First you need the crotch, which should cut in roughly a third of the way into the big circle. Then you can place the belly button just above the waistline. Pull the sides of the body out at just less than halfway down from the breasts by one pixel, to create the ribcage outline. With the breasts, they won't reach their apex because I'm showing them naked. As such, they'll be weighted downwards by gravity before reaching the biggest part of the circular bulge. The collarbone and shoulderbone spheres should be added too to allow you to make a more controlled skeletal frame.


The final part of the outline is to smoothen it out. Go from the waistline and make a controlled curve from the waistline to the bulge of the hipbone. Do this on both sides. Then smoothen out the boniness of the ribcage (The last step's ribcage was perfect if you're anorexic XP) and remove the rest of the breast's circles. Now redo the shoulders to delicately (Women's shoulders are delicate) wrap around the shoulder's sphere. From here I've just highlighted the areas that would like hit the light.


For any clothing, see the clothing tutorials. The only additional thing is how breasts react with a bra and clothing. This tutorial provides an insight into the motion of clotheless breasts, however clothes change the shape and dimensions of that particular area (You can tell I did alot of research on this can't you? ;p). Anyway, above has the two side by side. The left body is naked, the right one is clothed (However the clothes havn't been added, as we're only showing the effect of clothing). As you can see, the bra and clothing have made the breasts more circular and rounded, however they will be slightly flatter from a side view. This is because the bra only has a certain volume of space which the breast takes up, and spreads out to fill. Think of filling a bath of water, the water spreads out to fill the space. Obviously with this second shape, you would have either a bra, or a top over it so it wouldn't be shown in this form, except in Anime cartoons where the breast rarely changes shape.