body proportions
Limb-to-torso relationships
Body proportions are the relative sizes and relationships between different parts of the body.
Artists learn body proportions to draw realistic figures—the average adult stands about seven and a half heads tall, with arms reaching mid-thigh.
Her long legs gave her unusual body proportions for a gymnast.
Fashion, fitness, and medical contexts each have their own ideals and norms for what constitutes balanced or desirable proportions.
- physiqueBodily structure and form
- arm spanWidth of extended limbs
- long legsExtended lower limbs
- golden ratioPhi, roughly 1.618
- anthropometryScience of body measurements
growth charts · head to toe · foreshortening · dynamic poses · beauty standards · center of gravity · figure drawing · life drawing · calipers · somatotype · media representation · puberty changes · symmetry · limbs · torso · perspective · stick figure · ratio
- compositionbalance, symmetry, asymmetry, layout, arrangement
- osteometrylong bones, skull shape, cranial capacity, sex determination
- physiquebuild, figure, physique, somatotype, proportions
- character artcharacter design, character sheet, concept art, reference sheet, turnaround
- proportiongolden ratio, golden mean, golden section, phi, golden rectangle
- anthropometrycraniometry, somatotype, stature, biometric analysis, arm span
body proportionspersonality
Characteristic mental patterns
character · intellect · temperament · psychological traits · cognitive abilities