poll: which gender is easier to draw?

Postby **JediSonic** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 8:30 am

Guys or girls?

Postby **inkhana** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 8:58 am

Girls, for sure. Especially if you're not drawing anime. If anyone needs verification of this, I'll show you some of my old drawings...LOL

Postby **Namu** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 10:22 am

For me, it's easiest to draw Guys or young girls. I just don't feel comfortable drawing older girls. O_o

Postby **TheMelodyMaker** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 11:37 am

I couldn't say, since I'm not much of an artist and haven't drawn enough to know anyway. (But for some reason I do find it easier to come up with girls' names.)

Postby **Michael** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 1:36 pm

Blue.

Postby **ShiroiHikari** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 9:37 pm

Guys. Are so much easier to draw.

Postby **Haibane Shadsie** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 10:21 pm

Strangely, I think I find guys easier to draw...

This is strange for two reasons: In art classes, I was told that people tend to draw their own gender better than the opposite gender, because they see themselves in the mirror all the time. Secondly, when I took a Life Drawing course, our only model for the semester was a woman - thus I've never gotten real practice drawing male models.

Still... people like the muscles I put on male characters when I draw them, and their look overall. I really should be more accomplished at drawing females, but I think I'm better at males.

Postby **Bobtheduck** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 10:43 pm

Girls... The iconic female form is much more curvey and flowing, making it much easier to grasp in my brain. The iconic male figure... Well, it's not so... Iconic. It's much more complex... It's more likley for a male image to look feminine than the other way around, partly because of the views on such things (the one way street) So I can never do guys right... Not been satisfied with one pic I've done of a male character yet...

Postby **Heaven's Cloud** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 6:07 am

I find guys easier to draw.

Postby **CobaltAngel** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 8:30 am

Girls! My brothers can both draw guys better by I'm better at girls! LOL! Together we can do both! Yaya!

Postby **Taslin_Jewel** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 8:35 am

I can't really draw at all! When I attempt, I generally stick to girls, but I'm better at inanimate objects anyway, so mabye I shouldn't have tried to answer in the first place.

Postby **Mave** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 2:15 pm

I can draw both but it's harder with guys especially guys in tight clothing. I just can't achieve the super hero look (argh too embarassing :red:

)...So I conclude it must be the muscles!

Postby **JediSonic** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 3:24 pm

As far as muscles go, I too am CLUELESS! If you've ever seen DBZ, you gotta wonder if they totally made up where all those huge neck muscles and stuff go, or if they're really just exaggerating actual anatomy.

Where do you put the lines on the arms? LOL!

While it's true that you see yourself in the mirror everyday, you probably pay more attention to the, er, little details of the opposite gender when you're at school and stuff :sweat:

. Actually, I'm homeschooled now but I do find it easier to draw girls. Stupid muscles.

Postby **shooraijin** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 7:47 pm

For stuff like that, I just whip out my anatomy textbook. Something like Netter's Anatomy is just about essential to illustrate the prototype 'ripped guy' right. There are several sections where the muscle groups are well demonstrated and the contours can be traced over, er, duplicated carefully.

An anatomy text is a good investment for an artist, I think. It's an even better investment for an MD :grin:

Postby **Bobtheduck** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 8:01 pm

Yeah... Anatomy books are probably good starting point... Learn to draw real first, then get the "How to Draw Manga" books for the Manga look (teaches you, among many other things, how to NOT draw certain things, which is very important in making good looking characters, it looks ugly to draw everything, you should only draw what's important... that's why noses aren't that prominent...) , specifically the compiled volumes :Compiling characters, compiling techniques, compiling (?) and Clothing your characters... warning: Nudity in 2 of them (maybe in 3, I"m not sure) and about 1/3 of book 4 is dedicated to underwear, but I mean it's sorta expected in an art book... Gotta learn to draw the body before you learn to draw the clothes, if you want it to look right, but I still need to give people a heads up... They are about the best books on the subject, at least the compiling books, because they are incredibly comprehensive... Drawing techniques, tools, screentones, styles, stories, clothing, animals, perspective, architecture... It covers everything...

Postby **Whitephoenix** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 6:20 pm

For me it's girls. I started drawing at an early age and most of my works were self portraits.

Postby **Fsiphskilm** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 7:58 pm

i think guys like drawing girls and girls like drawing guys

Postby **Gypsy** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 7:48 am

Well ... I have days I guess. Sometimes I can't draw guys worth beans, and other days, the girls just never come out right.

Postby **Shinja** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 8:20 am

both are just about the same for me as far as difficulty, but girls are harder to draw naturally cuse i really dont uderstand how women think, so its hard for me to ilistraite responces or moods, i guess. and the guys are all basicly me, draw with the question "what would i do". but both are hard for me to come up with characters. in fact i dont think ive come up with any charcter i really liked.

Postby **Gypsy** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 8:54 am

Aww ... well ... try drawing them on a motorcycle! You'd be excellent at that!

Postby **Shinja** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 8:58 am

lol, yeah, well would you belive it if i told you that i could never draw a person at all till last year.

Postby **Gypsy** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 11:53 am

But you have good stuff now, and the more you work on it, the better it'll get, right?

Postby **Shinja** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 12:42 pm

absolutly

Postby **That Dude** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 2:41 pm

Hmmm...I usaully draw the face so I think guys are a tiny bit easier...Figure-wise I'd say it's about a tie...Yeah I think that its just as easy to draw a guy as it is to draw a girl...

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Postby **jesse benishek** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 6:39 pm

I think people find thier own sex easiest to draw, thier more comfortable about it without noticing. I like to try to observe my mental conclusions about things.

Postby **Straylight** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 2:33 am

Guys are a LOT easier to draw for me. If anything, I find it hard to get the face right.

Postby **Macross** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 9:53 am

I really think that girls are easier to draw....

Postby **Kagan** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 11:00 pm

I find it easy to draw both, but I find girls are easier to draw in anime, because if you know how to draw an anime girl, you can basically draw almost all anime girls (same body shape unless your trying to draw a child). However, you'll find that for your anime male heroes, bodies have more variety. Theres the lanky type, theres the normal type, theres the muscle type, and then theres the uber muscle type you only see in Dragon Ball Z... You'd find that most female heroes and girls are more limited to the first two.

Postby **Venus Rose** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 9:21 pm

I think girls are easier to draw.

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