Shirtless Fat Body Drawing Reference

ALRIGHT So my pal @kalreyno wanted help with drawing fat characters and as a fat artist i felt like i could requite a fleck of helpful insight on that. there'due south also been a lot of complaining about "boo hoo fat characters are hard to draw so i can't include them in my work E'er" goin on lately so if that'south your case then this is for you too!! and also only for anyone who would like help with fat bodies in general, ofc. anyway, allow's get this show on the road!!

let's beginning with some mutual misconceptions. these are the two main attempts at chubby bodies i run into, so i'll focus on them.

the Anime Chubby i see everywhere, and information technology'south simply……so wrong in many ways. kickoff of all, in that location is almost no additional body fat compared to your average thin graphic symbol - except for where information technology's added in "attractive" places (breasts, hips, thighs). the breasts are manner too perky, and don't have the realistic shape fat would give them (though how to draw authentic breasts is another tutorial all on its own lmao). at that place is still a thigh gap, which usually only happens in very thin people, and bones are nevertheless visible on the surface of the skin, which also rarely happens in fat people.

the Michelin Man is meliorate in some ways, but still non that cracking. it's a slightly meliorate attempt, but basically all that's done at that place is taking a sparse character and blowing them up, while giving no thought to fatty distribution. the thigh gap is ordinarily even so nowadays, and they look a lot more than hard than soft - and fatty is very soft and pliable.

here'due south a chart on how fatty unremarkably distributes (if you lot tin can't read my messy writing, "1. next to no fat, 2. moderate amount, 3. most of the fatty distribution"). basically, the more muscle an surface area has, the more prone it is to develop fat, such as the belly, thighs, and upper arms. it's important to note that fat sits on top of muscle, and that information technology does distribute in different levels, and not evenly across the body equally shown in the Michelin Man.

now, here'southward an accurate fat trunk with all of that kept in mind!! notice how the fat isn't only kept to aesthetically pleasing areas, and how it sits realistically on the character'due south body. their breasts sag a lot more, which happens even in sparse people with larger breasts, and the nipples are pointing more downwards than direct out. there is no thigh gap in sight, there are no basic in sight, and most importantly, they have fat rolls, which are very important in drawing a convincing fat character!! as far equally i know i've never met a single person with no rolls at all, and everyone has them, whether sparse or fat - they're just more than prominent and more consistently present in fatty people. pay shut attention to where they are and how they're shaped.

here are a couple of drawings showing how fat is afflicted when sitting vs stretching. as seen in the first, the fat specifically on the stomach is distributed a lot more evenly and stretched out, so information technology becomes "flatter". the love handles are still pretty visible, though, as well every bit the fat on the thighs and arms. the breasts are raised with the shoulders, and the fatty on the shoulders and about the neck forms rolls as information technology'due south being pushed together.

in the 2d, in that location is a lot less room for distribution, so the fatty is all pushed together. the breasts sag and the stomach forms rolls and spills into the lap. a good analogy for the manner fat works is to liken it to a water balloon, and thinking of how its shape would change when resting flat on a surface, hanging off of a ledge, held upright, etc.

here are a few extra tips i find a lot of people miss!

beginning on the elevation is the hip/pubic region. the first circle is showing the way the bellybutton is folded in fatty people, as opposed to stretched out in thinner people. the second is the stomach fat spilling over onto the pubic region and creating a separation in the two areas, which is something that'due south missing in a lot of art. in addition, the pubic mound likewise gains fatty, making it round as seen in the profile drawing i did up there (i've heard people refer to it as fupa?). the terminal in the hip region is the lack of a thigh gap. i tin can't stress this enough!!!! if you're trying to draw a convincing fat character, make sure their thighs are pretty much always touching!! for reference, mine literally don't split until my feet are about 2ft from each other.

the lesser right is showing the double chin, which a lot of people are afraid to draw!! fat does distribute itself here likewise, and in that location's nothing wrong with information technology, so don't feel like you shouldn't give fat characters a double mentum in your work for fear of it looking like a caricature.

in the bottom middle, information technology's showing how fat affects different types of breasts with the presence of more or less breast tissue.

lastly, at the very correct are stretch marks with their usual locations and directions, which i as well can't stress enough!!!!! i sometimes forget to add them honestly, merely they're then of import in accurately portraying fat characters, every bit they literally come up from the skin existence stretched from fat being gained (and they're besides just rlly neat lookin similar why wouldn't yous lmao). some people have less and some people take more, experience gratis to experiment with them!

the last thing is body types!! there isn't one single way for a person to be fat, and then feel free to experiment with shapes once yous've learned the basics!!

then there you take it, a tutorial on how to describe chubs!! now become forth and make some accurate fanart or some rad fat characters, considering the world could e'er use more of both. hmu if y'all take any questions or concerns, and thanks for reading!!

EDIT: someone pointed out the bad wording in the tutorial. thank you for bringing information technology to my attention and sorry for offending anybody. i've updated the tut, so please reblog this one!

Okay so I am literally about to cry.
I'm not an artist, only I love looking at art. And like. Information technology makes me feel and then worthless to encounter cute fine art with "fat" characters that are only actress curvey because I am so not that, and seeing merely the sexy curvy drawings makes me feel like I am somehow the incorrect kind of fat.
But this. This is then spot on. I have stretch marks and I take a double mentum and I have like a fat pouch in my pelvic surface area and my breasts are not perky and my thighs do not touch and simply… All of information technology.
Seeing art of someone who looks like me makes me feel… Worthy. Some artist idea a trunk similar mine was worth drawing, and that is so wonderful and validating and flattering. People enjoying said art is then good as well. And like. Wow. I only want to weep.

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