Inspirations

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justchien:

letmefixthatyaoiforyou:

I’m gonna talk about shoulders before I fix this one…

the shapes that make your shoulders are really complex so I actually have 3 images to explain some of this lol. First:

• The first thing to think about is the collar bones (in red), how they fit and what shapes they make around them. When you lift your shoulder, the collar bone moves with it (cause it pretty much IS your shoulder anyway lol).
• The bones are close to the surface but there isn’t much muscle around them, so when the skin goes over it creates a few pits that are good landmarks. My favorites are the pits on the outer ends of each collar bone (in blue here). They’re made where the pectoral (boob muscle???) goes under the collar bone. I love them because it so definitively outlines the edge of where the chest turns into the shoulder, it makes it way easier to find your way around the shoulders.
• In green is the trapezius muscle, which is actually a back muscle (it’s shaped like a diamond whose 4 points are at the top of the neck, outer end of each collar bone, and middle of the back) but it’s top 3 points peek over to create the sloping shape from the neck to the shoulder we all know. Since it’s all one muscle, both sides match up so it can help you to draw through the neck to get the proper slope of the trapezius.

• Next is some neck muscles! There are 4 major ones, 2 on each side, symmetrical. They don’t have cool names so I forgot them lol. The more important one is the one I’ve done in solid blue, which attaches the inner end of the collar bone to the skull up behind the ear. At 3/4 view, the farther one of these is what creates the visible edge of the neck that you can draw, as it goes from the front and wraps around behind.
• It’s important when drawing the shoulders because… well it’s attached to them so it’s gotta all fit right lol.

• Lastly here’s something to help make more sense of the armpit, one of the most confusing things ever. Since 99% of my drawings are animu boyz I don’t really bother to remember every specific muscle in the arm, and I just look it up when I need to. So what you see here is my method of remembering masses in the arm. The deltoid (the blue one) is like a cap on the shoulder, so when you raise your arm it bulges (it’s the one doing most of the work of holding your arm up). I them imagine the main mass of the upper arm (red) as a carrot or something that’s jammed into a hole in the side of the torso and is covered up by the deltoid cap lol.
• Also notice that when you lift your arm, your shoulder gets closer to your face. Too often I see people just make the arm go up vertically but leave the shoulder down and it just… makes this really awkward right angle and looks bad cause it’s wrong. Actually, when you raise your arm, your whole ribcage tilts to accommodate it too. Actually when you raise your arm it changes your whole body. LOL but that’s a different conversation.

You’ll see in my fixed version of this post that the angle of the shot and his raised arm leaves no room for negative space between his shoulder and face.

[Censored by Chien for her PG-13 blog!]

TA DA

(Let’s give him a ribcage too lol. I didn’t need to change the width of his torso this time, it’s just that his pecs+nipples were too far over so they were flattening him)

Okay, I seriously love me this Tumblr. Had to censor it unfortunately, but it’s great not only because of the horrible yaois submitted but also because the person who is correcting them knows how to draw and gives good mini lectures on anime through correcting the terrible buttsechs.

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ENJOY

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sorry I censored it, but if you click the link you can see the entry in its glory.

OMG THIS IS SO AWESOME. Yaoi’s not my cup of tea, but then again porn is always good for anatomy references. :D