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In art, body
proportions are the study of relation of human
body, or in general, animal body, parts to each other and the whole,
essential for depiction of the overall figure.
Some common proportional relationships for humans:
Body:
- The average adult human figure is about 7 to 7.5 heads
tall.
- The idealized human figure is traditionally represented as being 8 heads
tall.
- 8 head proportions:
- head
- from the bottom of the head
to the middle height of a chest
(place where a man's nipples
should be)
- from previous position to the navel
- from previous position to (upper edge of) the pubis
- from previous position to the middle height of thigh
- from previous position to the middle height of a calf
- from previous position to the point just below the ankles
- from previous position to the feet
- The pubis,
or its upper edge, is at mid-height of the average adult figure.
- The length of the shin
is equal to the length of the hip
for an average adult figure.
- When the body stands upright, the length of the arm
is such that the finger
tips come down to mid-thigh.
- The arms' wingspan (measured from the tips of the middle fingers) is
about equal to the body height.
- The length of the foot
is about equal to the length of the forearm.
Head:
- The eyes are
at the mid-height of the head.
- The head also can be divided into thirds - from the top of the head to
the bottom of the forehead,
from the bottom of the forehead to the bottom of the nose,
and then from there to the bottom of the chin.
- The width of the head is between four and five eyes wide.
- The height of the face
is about equal to the length of the hand.
- The eyes are separated by a distance of one eye width.
- The bottom of the nose to the corner of the eye is equal to the height
of the ear.
- The width of the base of the nose
is equal to the width of the eye.
- The width of the mouth is equal to the distance between pupils,
or the width of two eyes.
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