Cotton Guard

You know I recently made a post where I show the personal genderbend design from Hanayo - Love Live in her navy version. So I thought about show how I usually start to make the body of all of the characters I draw. I know I'm not the only one who starts like this, but I think the beginners must to know, if they still don't ^^

This way could looks "simply" but it's a big help to make the way yo draw your character easier!

At first you have to make sticks and circles (following the human form). Make the sticks as longer as you want, put the circles on every movement part of the body (The head of course, the elbows, knees, wrists, ankles, maybe hip, etc...). That's gonna be usefull if you want to give some movement (no matters how notable they're gonna be in your drawing). Then you can go over all the lines and modify them a little to give the form you want on every part.
If you give me some support with that I can still posting tips/tricks about this!
I hope it was usefull for all of you! :D