So what's going on.
Let's take a look at this little stuff.
Give me one second here guys
realize my phone was there.
I want to put that away.
So hopefully it won't go off but I'm sure you'll forgive me for being a human being with a phone.
So I guess the first thing that we'll look at is this this whole idea of heroic heads.
Now from what you can see right here scope here for a little bit.
So we've got this eight heads.
This is kind of our eight eight and a half heads.
This is eight heads high and you can see it's pretty much what I taught you.
So that's why I like going back to Andrew Loomis when I said just divide this in half because if you
notice this is four and this is for this kind of four and a half a little bit but it's still the same
principle as the eight heads high in theory and you see if we divide.
So we have eight heads and if we divide that in half it's right about where the chest is on if we look
over here it's like the traditional heads it's right at the nipple line right at the shoulders right
in the middle.
Where it comes down to one two three and four.
The middle is the crotch area.
If we get half of that right above here we have the knees.
So I'm just going to kind of color some of this stuff in.
So this is the knee and down here it's cut off a little bit.
I apologize it just had to.
I kind of took a picture of it and scanned it in.
And so right up here if you notice we've got the navel.
So you remember what I said.
So I got the head here at the chest here and I got the midsection here.
And you notice where they hit at that's where I told you guys to put the navel right.
And if you swing up this way then that's where you're going to get the bend of your arm.
So this is our upper arm right here or upper arm goes all the way up here.
Got a little elbow lower arm and right about the middle of the thigh that's where you're going to come
with the come with the hand.
And obviously we have our legs that are technically attached up here to our hips obviously but our upper
leg our thigh is one two spaces and from our lower or lower legs to our feet is another two.
So that is what that shows you.
Now this eight and a half heads high.
There's a lot of room for it.
There's a lot of margin for error here err error error error error here.
There's a big margin for that.
So you can see with our big scopes sure heroic nine heads.
And the thing is kind of based off of a sculpture and not actual an actual comic book figure but this
would kind of be superman or it might even be Batman maybe Batman might be Batman has a pretty big dude.
So this will be your Captain America and stuff like that.
So you notice that we have our head here.
If we go down to about four that's like right underneath our waist.
And so we got five and six.
So this is the way that I would divide this up and I'm a little bit rusty.
I do apologize.
So I would kind of look at the head like this and I would kind of go down here.
I would just I would make my
the half way line.
What I'm seeing from Loomis is that things are a bit longer.
So if I did like just keeping this really sketchy
you have a much bigger neck
and looks like we get.
So you see it's this it's the same proportions more or less.
You're still getting the the hand that's hitting in mid-fi.
But I guess maybe the biggest deal is.
So this is a head length instead of this being right here instead of us drawing the chest up here we
would make things a little bit longer.
So you see our chest muscle instead of being up here or being higher.
Hitting right at the nipple it would be the chest is just going to be longer.
So you're going to have this longer chest less strong the collarbone here.
Of course you're going to have bigger mass of shoulders the arms aren't going to change too much and
it does keep an Israeli sketchy for you guys.
Because I'm just looking at how I would analyze this probably want to give him a really big back
and right here is going to be your obliques.
And so this is how I'm kind of used to looking at this stuff.
What I would do for exaggeration when you're making your hero characters and this is what I've gotten
from this from LUMAS this book is I would make things a bit a bit longer because you see if you're if
this is like the thighs seems to be shorter and the bottom proportion of the legs the knees are going
underneath.
So let's kind of keep that.
Let's eat that layer.
And what I want to do is I want to take this layer and make this all want to shrink this down a little
bit.
So now let's say that I am drawing a figure.
I think this is going to become a little bit too I always have a habit of drawing kind of big here so
I wouldn't normally do this to bring it across from the chest.
But
I want to erase.
I would make that chest just a bit longer to give it heroic proportions right so that chest is longer.
I really want to make these shoulders a bit bigger.
So Loomis is actually showing us
how to elongate these biceps a bit more.
And what I would do is also I'd probably stretch out this torso a bit put our little underwear here.
And so the navel.
Put it right about so the navel would still go everything would kind of go in the same proportion.
And you could really exaggerate the arms.
So you already see his character is looking a little bit bigger just by adjusting the chest.
And don't worry we're going to do more than one lesson that I can glean from Andrew Loomis
as you can see I just keep stuff really really sketchy and basic because I'm not trying to commit to
anything and I'm not really drawing anything in particular.
I'd make the neck a little bit bigger.
But you see the key that chest being a lot longer that is so amazingly.
It's it's something about making that chest a bit longer.
That really does do a lot for the character.
And that's what that's really all that I did.
So you see how the chest is longer.
Let's zoom in a bit here.
Really if we really see what's going on here you see that our chest is longer.
That's just that's the best way that I could describe this and of course you got the Cereus and we got
the navel to the crotch area.
That's even a little bit longer.
So why don't we go ahead and
see if I can just make that a little bit longer.
So I've gotten this little the area in between here.
I'm going to bring that navel down a little bit more.
And from that I'm going up why not back out.
And I'm just making this character just a tiny little bit longer.
I want to see how that works out.
I'm bringing up my obliques
actually.
Sorry.
Obese would be right up here.
I apologize.
Here we go.
So I've readjusted that.
So now we got this character that's just a little bit more heroic.
Now the thigh seems to be a bit a little bit so that the hand is still hitting here mid thigh right
the hand is hitting here right around mid thigh.
But then in so these proportions look about the same.
But then that bottom leg seems like the bottom leg is a lot longer or just a bit longer maybe I should
say a lot longer.
As a matter of fact maybe if I move that up a little bit I can kind of get.
So wait a minute.
Stick that out a little bit more
trying to make sure that they're sitting on the same plane here.
Now made those feet huge may those feet huge in her a little bit out of proportion.
So I think so I think that there's there's a little bit more going on with the legs and I would encourage
you to try if you're looking at superhero figures you may want to go ahead and try and refine that list
go ahead and try to fix this up a little bit because I'm not quite sure I'm so happy with that.
But I really think that the key to this is is that chest making that chest that much longer
I think making that chest longer is really the key to this to doing the nine heads high because I don't
really draw in the real real traditional comic book style.
I don't try to draw like that anymore because I like a little bit more characterization when I'm drawing.
And please excuse any noise that you may hear in the background here.
I'm going to probably go ahead and try and hit pause really quick to let the noise subside.
Give me one second here guys I do apologize.
All right.
So I apologize about that.
Actually I just want to go ahead and fix this leg.
It's kind of bother me.
It's been awhile since I've actually had to draw anatomy.
I've been so working on perspective that it's that you get rusty.
It happens.
It really looks a lot better.
I think that works better to close up to it.
I can't tell
but I think that our that are key here is really to our key here is to really draw making that chess
longer and neck wider.
And that's going to give you your your eight heads your eight heads high and the reason why I really
don't really teach that is because I can draw this other character here.
Using the exact same principles of just kind of divide and stuff and half I want it to maybe this is
a villain kind of character but as long as I got my proportions of the guy my proportions accurate
as long as that's hitting by the mid thigh.
I'm not drawing this any differently too much.
I'm just drawn at the way I would normally draw this character and I was kind of sketching now just
to kind of show you that it's still the same thing.
I'm still drawn this character with heads hitting high or head hitting or everything hitting kind of
mid-thigh or whatever and it's trying to make this character skinny made a slight error here.
But as you can see there's really not the biggest difference to me personally is just to see that this
character has made sure it does have this character have
I'm just trying to make sure that this character doesn't really have that very much many differences
to it.
Once I start to go in and just kind of fix it up a little bit.
So as long as I'm Cause I pretty much eyeball this so as long as I got this half right here and this
half right here this really does look about it looks about the same but just making that that's the
biggest thing that sticks out to me with this is making that chest a lot longer.
So I would say if you want heroic will go with a longer chest and that's what I got from this lesson
right here.
Now maybe somebody else got that because you see it's still hitting a mid-thigh.
I tried to adjust the legs.
It really wasn't doing very much.
I know that there are sometimes especially back in the image comics days there were a lot of guys that
drew within that whole studio really really long long long legs on women very long overly exaggerated
long everything long arms but especially on women.
There was this really kind of every every woman that they drew was kind of this this curve and and that
the head tilt and it was just this these long legs that were just kind of ridiculously long.
And so that's the reason why I really drawn a lot of the comic book stuff because I just don't.
Some of it and some of that it reminds some of the times it reminds me of that kind of stuff.
And I think that I kind of either want to go with full on characterization or I want to go with a little
bit more realism and within that realism and characterization you can get a lot of variety but in another
thing really quick before I go.
If you want a character to look even more heroic just make that head just a little bit smaller make
those shoulders just a little bit bigger.
But I do like the idea of that longer chest giving it a bit more presence a bit more heroic presence
than the figures that I usually normally draw.
So I hope this was helpful to you guys and I will put up a lesson really so.
All right.
Talk to you later.
Bye.