http://learn-how-to-draw-now.com/How-To-Draw-Women-Men-Children-Part-4.html
http://www.idrawdigital.com/2009/01/drawing-the-human-form-proportions-from-child-to-adult/
Proportions between adults and children
Note the following proportion differences:
- Adult = 8 heads tall, with a head size of 9 inches
- 15 year old = 7 1/2 heads tall with a head size of 9 inches
- 10 year old = 7 heads tall with a head size of 7 1/2 inches
- 5 years old = 6 heads tall with a head size of 7 inches
- 3 years old = 5 heads tall with a head size of 6 1/2 inches
- 1 year old = 4 heads tall with a head size of 6 inches
(Prodos: Above chat, not that accurate, but conveys the idea)
http://maramattiaart.blogspot.com/2009/01/lesson-11-linear-perspective-in-drawing.html
http://artintegrity.wordpress.com/category/figure-drawing/
Section on sketching children. Discusses body proportions at different ages:
http://train-srv.manipalu.com/wpress/?p=118262
Here is an extract from “Painting and Drawing Children” by John Norton:
Children’s figure proportions are vastly different from those of adults.
The height of a newborn baby is four times the length of its head.
While a full-grown adult is between seven and a half and eight heads tall.
Because the thyroid is still small, the neck of a child is quite short and almost contiguous with the shoulders.
As compared with those of an adult, the limbs of a child are short in relation to the torso.
Consequently, the mid-height of a very young child occurs at the level of the navel, while that of an adult is located in the pubic region. As the child grows, the limbs lengthen and these proportions change significantly.
At the age of one year, a child is fouir and a half heads tall; from then until the age of six the body grows to five or five and a half time times the length of the head.
The mid-height at age six is located between the navel and the pubic bone.
From ten to fifteen years of age the body reaches between six and seven heads in height.
Since the proportions of arms to body is by this time the same in children as in adults, a child’s hands reach almost to the middle of the thigh when the arm hangs at the side of the figure.
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