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Welcome to the lesson on drawing the breasts.

Now when we think about breasts, one of the key differentiators with breasts, is that unlike all the other

forms that we've done so far, breasts don't have a bone structure to them.

They're very soft and they're very malleable to an extent . But the basic form that we want to use is

really just a spherical type of shape, at least to start with.

And then when we bring it into a dynamic sense, we kind of want to bend it down where it has more of an

egg like shape if you will, more of an egg like shape.

I'm drawing these contour lines on top of that here, on top of this form here, just so we can get a feeling

for its form.

And even if we rotated this particular form, it would very much be similar to an egg, but due to how malleable

the breasts are and soft they are, when they fall onto a surface, such as the chest,

they tend to flatten out at the bottom, where they touch that flat surface, and have this type of appearance,

where we've got these curves that been kind of flattened out here.

I'm just going to over enhance it here, that they really flatten out.

So a good way to think about breasts when you're drawing them, is to kind of imagine them as if they

were water balloons to some extent.

And the way that a water balloon might react when a hard surface is pushed against it, or it is

resting on a hard surface, like the breasts rest on the chest.

So now that we have this basic, very basic understanding of the form, let's look at some techniques of

adding the breasts on top of our basic chest shape.

So here is our dynamic chest section.

Just draw through the sections as well.

Just so you can feel that form out nicely.

And put a centered line down which can definitely guide us. Now in terms of human anatomy, the clavicle

connects here, and the clavicle is really the collarbone which would extend out underneath the skin surface

off onto joining the scapula, and then connecting to the arms and so forth. And the clavicle has this little

indentation in your neck, which you can feel if you put your fingers just below your neck.

You can actually feel where your collarbone joins, And it just so happens, that this is a great location

to start mapping out where you want to put the breasts, remembering their form and also remembering that

they're going to flatten on one side.

So in order to map the breasts out, also remembering your anatomy and your proportions, sorry also

remembering your proportions, you want to draw those shapes in.

And those 3D forms in, and then kind of flatten them out and imagine the form coming down here as

well, and have it kind of flatten out. On the nearside breast

we don't see the flattening as much.

Something to remember however, is that in terms of musculature, the breasts do not actually connect,

we would never draw a line down connecting the breasts from that point, because in terms of musculature,

the breasts are part of the pectoral muscles, and the pectoral muscles tend to, at the sides, bend out

and tuck in underneath the deltoid, right, which is the shoulder muscle.

So it's important to know, that while we want to have this form here, and certainly if we did some contour

lines we'd have this type of shape happening, just know that the muscle does curve out and up as it goes

underneath the shoulder muscle.

You generally don't see it that much in a three quarter angle on the far side of the Far side breast, but

you do see this flattening effect.

And technically speaking this would, it's lines would fold underneath the shoulder on that side.

And that is effectively how you draw breasts on the form.

Remember the malleable nature of it, and that water balloon and type of shape.

And what happens when we lay that water balloon down on a surface that is flat,

it's kind of going to get flat on that one side.

Think about it like that.

And a good way to also remember laying it out onto the chest, is using that clavicle indentation, and

you can see it almost makes a heart shape, which is a good way of at least helping you figure out where

exactly to place them, and remembering the actual contour of the forms as you place them on the chest.

All right so that's just a basic guide on how to place the breast, and the basic forms of the breast.

The sphere that we kind of stretching out to this shape, and once again, we don't want to forget how malleable

the breasts are, and how soft the breasts are and how they're affected by gravity.

So as a basic form.

Those are the breasts.

Let's move on.