An amazing body-shapes reference link

[Stella_Omega]

This is a photoshoot of various Olympic athletes by Howard Schartz and Beverly Ornstein titled “The Athlete”, reposted to a blog;

https://ninamatsumoto.wordpress.com/2010/12/18/athletic-body-diversity-reference-for-artists/

I love it-- maybe some of our fine artists will find it handy too...

 

[catalina_francisco]

Interesting shots. I have a great Black & White edition devoted to Olympic athletes which has come in very handy for using as a figure study guide when sketching.

Catalina

 

[xssve]

Good reference, it handy that their heights and weight are noted, it helps when trying to draw figures proportional to each other.

I always used to laugh when I saw a pic of Björn Borg, fascinating sports morphology there - the whole right side of his body is like twice the size of his left.