It started as a plain box, honest! First I made the box large enough to fit around the figure, just plain four sides, top and bottom.

Then I set the view to front, with the figure inside it, from the neck to ankles. Then tried to add lines (loops) at major angles. Places like waist, hips, shoulders, knees etc. Then sizing those loops to fit the figure.

In the attached pic, box on the left some of the loops have been sized, and a loop dividing the mesh in left and right has been added. (So I can take advantage od symmetry.)

Not too long after those refindments and after adding side seams and cutting out an area for armpits, I added sleeves. This was done with extrusion, initially just to get a very general shape around the arms

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