Quote - Maybe nobody has "perfect" proportions but last time Iooked, human arms bent at the waist and fingertips ended up around mid thigh.  Crotch is around midway up the total body length and legs bend halfway along their own length.

Anyone who doesn't pretty much follow that pattern - give or take a couple of inches - be they short, tall, skinny or fat is disproportionate.

I guess my whole family and the group of friends I was chatting with are all disproportionate. My arms bend just beneath the Pectoral Muscle, my finger tips reach just past my crotch, and my inseam from the floor is 32 inches on my 6 foot  1 inch frame. As a matter of fact with the eight people (5 male and 3 female) I was just in chat with, all found that their inseam from the floor was closer to 43% than 50%, and none had an inseam that was greater than 46% of their height, one exception to this, and that was my wife who has an inseam of 52% of her height, and she is nearly 6 feet tall. (inseam of 37.5 to the floor) Yes, she has a hard time finding long pants that fit, and can not wear heels of any sort with long pants.

To state what is normal, is sort of like that doctor from the turn of the century that stated he could tell intelligence based on head shape. He went on to state that he could tell when people had mental deficiencies based on their head shape. He was a quack that a lot of other quacks expanded upon his ideas as to the perfect human speciman.

Shoot, even Da Vinci had to alter his image of man to make it fit his ideal proportions. One thing I learned in Anatomy and Anatomy for drawing was there is no proper proportions in the human form. There is prefered, but that is also influenced by culture more than nature.

ratscloset
aka John