A Quick Question to Artists

It seems that a lot of artists prefer to draw female characters. Is the male body inherently more difficult to draw? Is it more of a preference? Or are GuildWars men just too darn complicated or something?

I'm just innocently curious about this. :3

I, as a female, have always found it more natural to draw characters of the same sex. I think my lack of experience keeps me from creating diversity in drawing men, but I'm working on it.

I personally find the male body harder to draw ... especially if it involves a body that has some muscles... it's damn tough really.( allot of detail to draw there... and I really don't have a precise image at how each muscle at each body part might look like etc)


Just as Tzu I think the lack of experience also adds allot to it ( aswell as the challenge)
I guess it's really different for everyone but I guess in my case drawing females is naturally easier for me. ( well atleast it was since I haven't drawn in ages XD)
F.ex. I think a Guild Wars Warrior seems like no easy job to draw imo.


Also ... it might just be me but... when you draw a GW female character.... as long as she looks cute or sexy... even if she doesn't really look like exactly the original model most people will be pleased about it (especially the dudes obviously :P)... I don't think that will produce the same effect with male characters though ... as I think what most are aiming for with their males isn't to look cute or pretty...watever XD you get my drift :P
I could be completely wrong with my statement but this is the impression I've got.

If you get into 3D modeling, the generally best model available is a female character and she don't have a male counterpart yet. And this model has the most addons for it.

Also people like doing renders of pretty ladies and spending money to make renders of pretty ladies so it is a self perpetuating them.


For me, female characters are FTW because I like making art I like to look at.

I like drawing male characters, but it just depends on who wants work done. Not to say there aren't people that are proud of their male characters and want them drawn, but I also agree with Oogami, that as long as you just make the chick cute/sexy, you can totally suck with details but people will still be like "Yay! That's my girl!" With the guys you have to manage the details, otherwise it's just some dude with a sword or something.

I recon its personal preference, I just like female characters more. I don't mind drawing guys either, but if I have to pick I'd rather draw a female character.

Both are just as hard to draw in my opinion, if you try to draw them well. I used to have more experience drawing girls & ladies. But then I went to artschool and got loads of male models there. In addition to that I had to make lots of self-portraits, so by now I'm prolly equally bad at both .

if you want to be good at drawing figures, i suggest you study all aspect of the human anatomy, also those of the animals, insects, plants etc, all sexes.

since one can write a whole book with the question why more artists draw female character then male, I have to say I cannot answer you that. but my own reason is, i am female and its easier to study my own body then someone elses lol.

I have a lot of friends that draw from all different styles and we have concluded in one fine day's conversation that it seems easier to draw your own sex. Quite possibly a psychological thing.

Anyways... as with pumpkin pie, study anatomy. It's boring, but it helps a whole lot. Don't want your drawings to look like the Afflicted. :P

Studying anatomy is boring? Surely, thou hast not seen the Underwear models! Hehe, I kidding, anatomy is a ***** to get right.

On a completely unrelated note: I hate drawing feet. Also, I find females easier to draw for head/bust shots. Full bodies are a pain and feet are made of pure evil. Evil I dare say!

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Well, i attend an art college at the time and i just finished taking my second drawing class. and i must say that it isnt so much the sex of the person, but the shape.

we did a lot of figure drawing in class and i found that the rounder the figure the easier to draw. the more defined, the more difficult. More since it would take more time, patience, and study to get size and proportion correct.

You can have so much more fun with women.

Women allow a far greater range of design to be used, you can use a female model with just about any clothing and design, and as long as she is attractive people will accept it. You can run riot and just have fun with the design.

Men, not so much.

As to painting either of them, there is no difference; one is neither harder nor easier than the other as they both present different challenges.

oh tatile! you should go see David's "feet" lol or any old masters "feet" you would want to draw them afterwards!!!

lol really. visiting gallery helps alot in painting! (PS, you can't really see clearly the feet from these pictures below but they are really really well painted and the colours are just marvelous)

http://www.unc.edu/~jjbowers/jacques...f_socrates.jpg
http://www.frick.org/assets/images/e..._David_600.jpg

some example, you know they look so real you just die admiring them. i say David's because he's one of my favourite artist.

I am not saying everyone should paint like that mkay, just that its an inspiration to see and know there are people who actually can paint as good as all these old masters. bring tears to your eyes!