Torso measurements on teenage and adult characters drawn with shorter proportions

[Lensing]

This is a torso and the dimension are always 100% the same.
Just like I wrote, it obviously grows.
Try it out and put the torso on thousand different bodies and scale
it down and up. This has nothing to do with skeleton part of the torso

[amymadison182]

*proportions, Teens in real life are 6-7 heads tall and adults are 6-8 heads tall. Proportions is about ratios, not just heads. I don't want women to be at the shorter end on the scale, though the torso can be 1 or 2 heads depending on the style though.

[amymadison182]

I'm also 5'1 myself, Everybody has different proportions, different sizes and different body types, I have average-looking legs though. What does AFAB and AMAB stand for?

[amymadison182]

Yeah, I know but we're not talking about dimensions in the torso in this thread.

[Lensing]

Then why is the topic called torso measurements and you mention torso measurements 2 times in what you wrote??
That´s why I asked you to explain what you want to know.

I think there is a misunderstanding what torso means

[HGohwell]

Honestly, this thread makes no sense anymore. Sure, I gave a basic breakdown or a rough guide, and even said it depends on style and specifics you want, and we're not talking about real life, it's art, art is not always realistic and is often stylised. I said women are often on the short end of the scale, because they are. It's a fact, women are often shorter than men and when drawn are drawn with fewer heads:body ratios. No one's saying you have to do that. If you want hours of detail into the tiny details, go an watch some expert videos on it. You seem to want advice, then just seem to want to correct everyone and tell them they're wrong. I don't need you to correct me, I do fine doing it my way. If you want people to simply talk about how they do it so you can tell them they're wrong and tell them how you do it, make it clear because right now I'm not sure what you want or why anyone is going to keep trying. If you already know everything and want to keep correcting people, you're on your own. If you want to actually look at different heights and builds on your own, I suggest you study how Haikyuu does it since they're dealing with teens to adults from 4'2" cuties to 7'2" giants like so.

[amymadison182]

Sorry about if the thread doesn't make any sense, Art isn't 100% realistic and stylized like you said and a lot of characters are drawn with different proportions depending on the art style, I'll watch expert videos on proportions later if I have time, Thank you for advice and this thread is over now.

[LunarScyphozoa]

Assigned female at birth and assigned male at birth.

[amymadison182]

All people are born female and born male, this is getting way too off-topic.

[LunarScyphozoa]

But you’re the one who asked??

[Kelheor]

@joannekwan close please

[darthmongoose]

What does AFAB and AMAB stand for?

AFAB = Assigned Female At Birth
AMAB = Assigned Male at Birth

Basically not all men or women are necessarily cisgender, and some people are nonbinary, so you might have AFAB trans men whose height or skeletal structure was impacted by that, and nonbinary people may not necessarily consider themselves "men" or "women", but their build may be impacted by their hormones, chromasones and stuff, and it's more accurate and respectful to say what their assigned gender was at birth (where the doctor just kinda looks at what the genitals look like and calls it how they think it looks), than to say reductive, and often inaccurate things like "biologically male" or "biologically female" (because even if somebody looks pretty male or female at a glance, you never actually know what's going on with their chromasones and things)..

It's another reason really to just draw characters as individuals rather than trying to split things too much along lines like age and gender.

[amymadison182]

Thanks for the advice.