Human Proportions

[ascottk]

I'm not sure it's been covered & I did search through the forums. So here's a list of web sites covering human propertions:

http://realcolorwheel.com/human.htm

http://drawinglab.evansville.edu/proportion.html

http://www.portrait-artist.org/misc/proportion.html

http://www.angelfire.com/ar/rogerart/measure2.html

http://www.animatedbuzz.com/tutorials/proportion.html

 

This one makes more sense to me (since the golden ratio is covered here):

http://goldennumber.net/body.htm

The Divine Proportion in the Body

 

The white line is the body's height.

 

The blue line, a golden section of the white line, defines the distance from the head to the finger tips

 

The yellow line, a golden section of the blue line, defines the distance from the head to the navel and the elbows.

 

The green line, a golden section of the yellow line, defines the distance from the head to the pectorals and inside top of the arms, the width of the shoulders, the length of the forearm and the shin bone.

 

The magenta line, a golden section of the green line, defines the distance from the head to the base of the skull and the width of the abdomen. The sectioned portions of the magenta line determine the position of the nose and the hairline.

 

Although not shown, the golden section of the magenta line (also the short section of the green line) defines the width of the head and half the width of the chest and the hips.

 

& more about the golden ratio:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio

 

Maybe we should sticky this for future reference (& since I've seen some weird proportions with the nobleman)

[oDDity]

You don't want to pay too much attention to that though. Game engines distort things, so you have to go with what looks right, rather than some golden proportions.