Here are the front and back views of a male whose major muscle groups are shown. This is what a male looks like with zero percent fat on the muscles. The detail of the hands and feet are not shown because we'll talk about drawing hands and feet further down the road.

Understanding where the muscles are and how they look will help you when figure drawing. If you study what the muscles look like and how they interconnect, you'll be able to understand what you're looking at when the figure is foreshortened in some manner. We will also discuss how to draw the human body when it is foreshortened elsewhere in this section. The muscle shapes change as the figure moves, either contracting or elongating, and if you understand how the muscles interact with each other, you'll understand more fully how and what to draw.