People were strange like that. Steal five dollars and you were a petty thief. Steal thousands of dollars and you were either a government or a hero.
Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
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kind of a weird question, but... how do you figure out the proportions for your centaurs? I've been trying to draw a centaur OC of mine but every time i try the human body looks like a weird size in comparison to the horse body...
@snamorta asked:
Question! Do you have any advice on how to draw Centaurs? I've recently fallen in love with them but I'm having a hard time drawing one. Thank you, and I absolutely adore your art!
Grouping these together because without getting into specifics of drawing the hardest parts of both a human body and a horse and then smashing them together.. the hardest part of making a centaur look right -is- the proportion!
I also have a hard time consistently nailing the proportion of human to horse halves, and even now frequently have to lasso and shrink the human torso early in the drawing process! So if you're drawing digitally, don't be afraid to really chop up and rearrange your drawing early on until it feels right! But if you're working traditional or still having trouble visualizing them- hopefully this helps!
For guides on how to draw all the various bodyparts in more detail, I highly recommend The Etherington Brothers and their 'How to Think When you Draw' guides, I really like the way they break down shapes and structures of all kinds of subjects! Including horses and human upper bodies! They do a better job than I ever could showing how I think about anatomy and shapes, ect.
Basically a more detailed text/image described version of the infographic below the readmore!
Overall the best way to maintain general proportions for centaurs is to make a right angle over the withers/hip region and see if each arm of the angle is roughly even in length! Another way to check is to check the height of the human hip, it should fall very roughly about 2/5ths of the total height of the centaur.
These are very rough approximations that I have figured out from my years of drawing centaurs, but playing around those figures will give you various types of centaurs! With pushing the human torso a little larger and making the horse legs a little shorter you will get an individual that feels pony-sized, and making the horse body and legs a little longer you can make something that feels more like a clydesdale!
One last way i often check to see if a sketch is feeling balanced early on is to picture the human torso with normal legs! If the hooves are falling right around where human feet would be, those are either some short legs or the horse body is too small! Generally for an average centaur the height will be a bit taller than a human of the same proportion! I hope that makes sense 😅
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Here's my seasonal collection of vintage (mostly weird) fashion.
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Romans 12:6 (NKJV) -
Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith;
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anaïs Nin
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Beautiful peacock logo - the proportion 🦚
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Cover of "Der Modulor" by Le Corbusier
(Ed.5, 1985)
Between 1942 and 1955 the architect Le Corbusier (1887–1965) developed a universal measuring system known as the "Modulor".
The Modulor represented an attempt to give architecture a mathematical order oriented to a human scale. Starting from the golden ratio and the proportions of the human body, Le Corbusier developed his doctrine for the proportions of construction. He started from an assumed standard size of the human body and marked three intervals related to each other in the proportion of the golden ratio.
Le Corbusier managed to combine the imperial measuring system based on the foot with the metric decimal system and at the same time to relate to human body measurements. As a result, he obtained a systematic planning basis for architecture and industrial products that gained worldwide currency and was applied by countless practitioners.
—ETH Library, ETH Zurich
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"oh... we're talking again? I've done my penance?" -countdown #21
side note this is from a few issues ago, i think #24:
which i saved bc i was like this is starting to feel kinda disproportionate lol
anyw back to #21
and i do just want to say. leading up to #25 or #26 or whenever it was, people had to tell jason more than once to be less protective of donna. just the two i have saved:
and
and i just... I JUST...... I JUST!!!!!
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While I still have a lot of anxiety when I have to use a restroom in public, it is far more manageable these days. Some of it is my attitude, and a lot of it is just doing it over and over and helps me continue to bolster my confidence.
Also, wanted to make sure it was clear that I’m not downgrading the potential threat of Chucky overall... just in proportion to Jason. (No offense if Brad Dourif reads webcomics. lol) I mean, in all reality, I’d likely STILL die in a Chucky film before the second act. lol
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
- Francis Bacon
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