Human Anatomy Fundamentals

Join Joumana Medlej in learning how to draw the human body and all it's variations in this series aimed at beginners. You'll learn the utter basics on proportions of the body, to the face, the limitations and more!

Posts in this series

Human Anatomy Fundamentals: Learning to See and Draw Energy
This is the first of a number of articles teaching everything you need to draw the human body at its most lively. But before embarking on a study of anatomy,...
Joumana Medlej
2 Oct 2013
Drawing
Human Anatomy Fundamentals: Basic Body Proportions
In this human body drawing tutorial, you'll learn basic human body outline drawing techniques. Discover how to draw a body with good proportions and start...
Joumana Medlej
19 Jun 2021
Human Anatomy
Human Anatomy Fundamentals: Advanced Body Proportions
In our last session we learned the basic, generic proportions and joint alignments of the human figure, and if you've been practicing you should be ready for...
Joumana Medlej
10 Dec 2013
Drawing
Human Anatomy Fundamentals: Balance and Movement
This is our last session working with the basic structure of the body before we start clothing it in flesh. We have seen how it is proportioned and how those...
Joumana Medlej
9 Jan 2014
Drawing
Human Anatomy Fundamentals: Muscles and Other Body Mass
For the past few sessions we have become thoroughly familiar with the general structure and posture of the body in a range of variations. Now we're ready to...
Joumana Medlej
6 Feb 2014
Drawing
Human Anatomy Fundamentals: Flexibility and Joint Limitations
In this last session before we start putting faces on our characters, I'll be introducing flexibility. Flexibility is the ability to stretch a joint to the...
Joumana Medlej
6 Mar 2014
Drawing
Human Anatomy Fundamentals: Basics of the Face
In this tutorial, we'll look at the proportions, features and foreshortening of the face and head.
Joumana Medlej
9 Apr 2014
Drawing
Human Anatomy Fundamentals: Advanced Facial Features
In this tutorial we'll go into more details about the face, with features individualized by gender, age or ethnicity.
Joumana Medlej
9 May 2014
Illustration
Human Anatomy Fundamentals: Mastering Facial Expressions
A detailed study of 58 emotions and how to bring them to life on paper... you read that right, 58!
Joumana Medlej
5 Jun 2014
Drawing
Human Anatomy Fundamentals: How to Draw Hands
Everything you need to make sense of the hands and draw them without a headache.
Joumana Medlej
15 Jul 2014
Drawing
Human Anatomy Fundamentals: How to Draw Feet
The foot may well be the most neglected part of the body, largely because it's so often hidden inside a shoe, or simply left outside the frame of the drawing...
Joumana Medlej
8 Aug 2014
Human Anatomy
Human Anatomy Fundamentals: Additional Tips
To round up our lessons on drawing human anatomy, here are some additional tips. We'll look at close-ups on some body parts, insights into motion, folds, and...
Joumana Medlej
2 Oct 2014
Human Anatomy
Human Anatomy Fundamentals: Drawing Characters Consistently
As part of our series on drawing human anatomy, here are some final notes so that you can not only design and draw a character fully, but draw this same...
Joumana Medlej
24 Oct 2014
Human Anatomy