Welcome to the first free lesson in Drawing Anime Bodies - Premium Course Lesson Pack 2!

This pack brings together the 20 body lessons from our Premium subscription course, taking you from the basics up to intermediate level, with lifetime access.

Today you'll start with the basics of drawing bodies, using simple shapes to plan out a well-balanced figure. Watch our pro's pen move stroke by stroke and draw along.

As this is a Premium course, the guidelines and the finished drawing are below as PSD, PNG and PDF files, and our pro Japanese illustrators answer your questions in the comments.

You can download the files from this video below (PSD, PDF, and images).

Note: When a lesson says two lines should be "exactly" equal (marked with two hash symbols), try to match them exactly while you're learning. Our pros sometimes adjust these for a character, and you can too once you feel confident.

Does this sound like you?

☑️ I often struggle with putting down my first lines, or feel overwhelmed looking at an empty canvas

☑️ I find it hard to transfer the awesome artistic ideas in my head into actual pictures on the page

☑️ I find myself frustrated by stationary tutorial images... Hey! How do you expect me to draw that if I didn't see how you drew the lines?!

☑️ I'm a digital artist, but I only really use the brush tool, and draw everything on one layer. I want to understand how to use the tools more efficiently!

If any of these sound like you, this course was made for you.

Read more about this course here