Landmarks of the Human Body
Landmarks of the Human Body
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Figure Drawing Fundamentals

Landmarks

Landmarks of the Human Body

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Landmarks of the Human Body

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The best way to learn the landmarks is to draw from life or from photos and try to identify them. Use them in the construction of your drawing. Attempt them on your own before you watch my examples below.

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Lenserd martell
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Gian Amir Calibuso
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Grace Mounce
Hi, everyone! I did the landmarks assignment. After I followed each of Proko's examples, I drew from a reference photo that captured the body from a similar angle (after the first one, I found a muscular back; after the fourth one, I found an extreme scapula position; etc.). If anyone could give me some feedback on how I did, I would so much appreciate your time and attention! Did I place the landmarks right (particularly those tricky scapulae?) Also, I have another question that's been bugging me, and maybe I'm being way too anal about it...When Stan draws the landmarks, he lines up the PSIS with the iliac crest. On the "Landmarks of the Human Body" diagram included in the premium lesson, the PSIS is a little below the iliac crest. Which one is right? Does it really matter? Thank you everybody! I wish you all good fortune on this challenging (at least for me!) lesson! May you all learn a lot :) Sincerely, Grace Mounce
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Shelvs Fleurima
This is pretty good, two notes : keep your work clean. And remember that you are adding details to the beans and gesture. You should still have the stretch and the bumps accordingly. I will have to go to my sketchbook to fully explain it.
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Lance Brown
2023-05-04 Hi, these are my attempts at finding landmarks on some 5 minute drawings that I did. The very bottom drawings on the first image are the earliest ones that I drew, and I have been working on this topic for about a week now. If anyone could provide criticism on these drawing I would be very grateful as I feel like there is still a lot I can learn to do better on this topic, but I do not know how to advance from this point. Thank you in advance :)
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Crimson The Kitsune
Pretty good dude! You’re doing great at foreshortening certain limbs of the body, as well as drawing it!
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Crimson The Kitsune
1/5/2023 I think I’ve made an actual attempt this time with my gestures, though I still feel like their not what they’re supposed to be. Criticism’s are welcomed! (Top Left is first, Bottom Right is Last).
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Jonnathan Avelino
other pose.
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Jonnathan Avelino
seems like you are using boxes over the gesture, I think you need to keep it more simple, and work more on those base lines, I have try some of your poses if that helps to give you an idea, and try that does not take more than 1 or 2 minutes.
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Crimson The Kitsune
30/4/2023 I swear for the life of me I could NOT figure out how Proko does it. I don’t know where to start or how to even go about things and it’s honestly frustrating. I ended up cutting my study time just because of the bare bones results I was getting from this. Criticisms would be very helpful right now because I cannot do frickin anything.
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Jesper Axelsson
Hi @Crimson The Kitsune, I actually think those gesture drawings look pretty nice. Where do you feel like most of the struggle is? Is it in the gesture, or in finding the landmarks? Or something else?
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Crimson The Kitsune
30/4/2023 I’ve been practicing for a while now. I originally started with giving my usual notes on my mistakes, but then I switched it up by allowing myself to finish the drawing with Proko. I think I did pretty well tbh.
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Eveline Rupenko
Hi, Here is my assignment for this lesson! I've done it in a few steps, first I've tried to find the respective landmarks on an actual body, then i've tried to find angles of a ribcage and pelvis, and in the end, I've tried to make a figure drawing trying to replicate the landmarks I found!   It's a bit hard then you don't have a precise knowledge of anatomy, the hardest points for me to find are the position of a scapula and great trochanter
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Aidan Curwick
Studying anatomy is the road to hel*, and anyone who would endeavor to do so deserves kudos. Despite your struggles finding the scapula, you're pretty darn close. My mentor always stressed to me that it's not about the individual anatomy so much as it is the relationship between the different parts of the body - in this case, the pelvis and the shoulders. One way I've studied this is to look in the mirror and see how my body moves in response to different positioning. For example, what happens to my hips if I arch my shoulders back? Then, move around and observe how the two influence each other. Otherwise, you are doing an amazing job, and never stop drawing!
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Shiya
Hello you all... here is the assignment for the lesson... I am hoping to get some feedback on these. I had trouble identifying and drawing two landmarks - 1. Scapula and 2. Great trochanta Plz help me with these. (Pages may look a bit messy coz I used 6B pencil and as it was not visible to normal camera, so I had to use colour pop to darken it )
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Samuel Sanjaya
this is my attempt at landmarking, i hope i can get some feedbacks and critiques. I still have difficulties in building the structure on top of gesture, and find it easier to just go straight to building the structure itself. It would be great if there's anything that can help with this.
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Vera
2mo
Hello everyone. Here are some drawings practicing landmarks. I have trouble identifying the ASIS and the greater trochanter, so if anyone has advice on that, it would be very helpful for me. Another thing, I have a question. How long should these drawings take me to draw? Advice and critiques are appreciated. References are from line-of-action.com
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Genivieve LeDuc
My Bony landmarks assignment-
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Arman Jucutan
Hello Proko Community, here is my work for the landmark chapter. I've been having trouble giving my figures some anatomy, is it mandatory to look at anatomy books to do this figure course if I havent bought the anatomy course yet? Finally, what exactly am I trying to achieve with this landmark exercise? Is it just to help with proportions and to keep my drawing accurate from the reference. Thank you!
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Johnathan
You are correct. Especially with boney landmarks. A person can gain weight and lose weight, and the boney landmarks will still be at the surface of the skin. Which makes them reliable reference areas of the body when trying to draw the figure. Also I dont believe the figure drawing course requires the anatomy course (I checked the course page).
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momoxue
I drew some LandMark exercises and read some anatomy related books, here are some of my questions. Feedback would be much appreciated. Thank you!!! 1. I can only know the shape and position of the muscles in the standing state. For twisting and other states of Landmark position always makes me wonder how to start. 2. The movement of the shoulder blades and the position relationship between the shoulder blades and the teres majorus muscle confuse me, do you have any good methods for the positioning of the shoulder blades? 3. For the front, I always feel that my abdomen is a little awkward, but I don't know how to correct it.
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Jesper Axelsson
Hi @momoxue, nice drawings and good job indicating some of the landmarks. I would consider this exercise completed. You'll keep looking for landmarks as you draw, and when you get into anatomy you'll have extra knowledge to help you place them even more accurately. Other things: - There's some good stuff going on in these. You show a feeling for gesture and form. But the figures feel a bit disjointed, and some of the forms very thin. It might be that you're rushing to quickly into adding anatomical details. Before adding the bones and muscles, you'll probably want to have established the gesture and major forms. Since you already seem to have experiece in drawing forms (btw it would be nice to hear what previous experience you have), it would be interesting to see you do some gesture drawings with clear forms. Kinda like the Mannequinization – Structure of the Human Body, but with more rounded forms. I think you would benefit from checking out this Drawing Demo by Glenn Vilppu and try to mimick his way of working. At 21:00 he explains the process of starting with the flow, then adding forms on top. Apart from flow and proper volumes, also pay extra attention to balance. Check with your intuition: "Does it feel like this figure would fall, or is it balanced". It might help to indicate the ground plane. Your questions: 1. Once you're confident with gesture and major forms, you place out the anatomy. Since the shape of the muscle changes as the body moves, you have to study it thoroughly. You have to know where it originates and inserts, and what form it has, to be able to modify it based on the pose, and place it in space. Practicing drawing the anatomy from imagination, then checking with reference to see where you're off, is a good way to acquaint yourself with it. 2. The shoulder blades are really tricky. I've had to study them a lot, but now they're my favorites😎. One key to drawing bones that aren't clearly visible is to practice drawing them from imagination as described above, until you know where they should be placed, even if they're not visible. I rely a lot on my imagination when drawing anatomy. A thorough understanding, accompanied by clues visible on the surface usually gives me an accurate result, I think. Imagining touching the shoulder blades on the model, as well as imagining striking the pose myself, trying to feel where my shoulder blades would have been, also helps me. I attached an image of a mass conception of the scapula that you might find useful. 3. It might be because you're originating the rectus abdominis all the way down to the crotch. It starts a bit higher, at the pubic crest. Hope this helps :) Keep up the good work!
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teetree
A couple of my drawings practicing landmarks. Am I on the right track getting the landmarks correctly placed? Feedback would be much appreciated.
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Jesper Axelsson
Yeah, the landmarks look pretty good! I think you would really benefit from doing some gesture quicksketches (the exercises from the first lesson). I couldn't see that you had posted any, and getting feedback on those will help you improve all your drawings, I think. Feel free to tag me (@Jesper Axelsson), if you post any. Hope this helps :)
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Daniel Lykke
Hello you all happy new year! Here are som of my practices. And notes in the start I had to look in my notes to finde the hard landmarks but as I went on I started to find them without. If you guys have something to add please let me know.☺️
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Shelvs Fleurima
I love your dedication, I will post some more feedback later. But from my original observation I will say that you should work on your exaggeration and gestures a bit
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Shelvs Fleurima
Remember the box exercise
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Shelvs Fleurima
Great work, just make sure you work on your gesture, specifically the line of action ( center line of the pose). and one more thing. When it comes to landmarks, the important thing to remember is make sure you still respect the structure of the skeleton under the muscles. It’s much more than just identifying them. You need to be able to draw the 3d shapes, do a little bit of perspective and then ad the landmark marchers and simplification on top.
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debb
6mo
Here are some of my practices. Any feedback would be appreciated!
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Red
6mo
I really enjoyed this lesson. Studied very hard! Any help would be massively appreciated
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Dre Torres
Besides the messy lines what can I do better?
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hoda
6mo
You cannot see the action line in their figure that's why they seem too stiff. But don't worry, it's just the beginning you'll get better by more practice. Just don't forget to follow the action line.
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Dre Torres
I don’t think I’m getting it, any advice? (I know line quality isn’t good I mean with the landmarks.)
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