Proportions - Elves and Dwarfs make for a nice change of pace

Last weeks lesson had us doing work on proportions when drawing characters and how variation in that proportion helps show things like babies from adults as well as when there intends to be a variety of human like race.

To further this point we had to then draw our own elf and dwarf, following through with making there proportions relatively in line with their stereotype; elves are tall and willowy, dwarves being stout and hefty. As such we were shown roughly how many heads their height would be and where key points in their anatomy would be.

Elves would be around 8-9 heads tall, Dwarves 4-5 heads.


The dwarf i had a lot of fun with as it gave me a chance to try really emphasising the hard edges of the body to give it a sturdy look despite the smaller proportions. The elf on the other hand was more challenging as i usually only go up to 6 - 7 heads in my other work so it was harder to balance out features and body parts over that longer distance.

On the whole it gave me some nice experience in drawing some fantasy races and i liked my design for a dwarf, i got across the low sitting nature of their body parts, and i also think i managed to convey the wispy nature of the elves. The thing i could work on though is the proportion work, i had some problem making sure i kept to the heights given, which is why my dwarf is on the taller side, as i had trouble cramming body parts to each head of height.

Luckily enough then as the homework is on anatomy....

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