Male 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 male body is different to a female one, as it has slimmer hips and chest as well as wider, more powerful shoulders, built more rigid to sustain more damage as the providing gender (Though you wouldn't think so the way we wail XP). I will show you the anatomical front-view perspective of a male. First you need to build a large square which will be the slim rigidity of the hips. Above this you need the waist which should be (Unless you're creating a fatter character) thinner than the hips and roughly shoulder-width, but not by alot (With a male generally all areas of the body are the same width with only slight differences). You'll also need two smaller squares as your basic chestline. 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 square (Always go from just below the top of the square's sides, not the middle or bottom) will be the hip-bone. You should go about two pixels in from the edge of the chest squares to form the basic belly and rib outline. The male chest does come out of the outline of the ribs, but not to the extent of the female breasts.


You need to start putting basic details in now. First you need the crotch, which should cut between a third to half way into the big square. 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 chest by one pixel, to create the ribcage outline. A male chest should only slightly break the outline, and also slowly rise upwards towards the middle. Unlike female chest, on the male chest you can see the muscles form around the shoulders to make a more built look. The collarbone and shoulderbone squares should be added too to allow you to make a more controlled skeletal frame. With the abdomen, I have made a funnel shape where the abdomen forms round, and the gap at the end is where the penis forms.


The final part of the outline is to smoothen it out. Being less curvy than the female body, you must round off the sharper edges. Where the waistline was, the green belly outlines should be widened by one pixel to make them connect to the bottom half properly. The ribs should be rounded in but not made too bulky. The upper thighs and abdomen should be rounded properly. Remember that when putting clothing over the top, that the end of the abdomen funnel should be a bulge where the man's penis would be.