I have developed a way of looking at our bodies that will bring our own personal feelings about them into play.

We will start by dividing the body into fourths:

Upper Body: head, shoulders
Upper Middle Body: bust, waist
Lower Middle Body: bottom, thighs
Lower Body: knees, calves, feet

We are going to rate each of these sections on three scales:

Body Style: skeletal, muscular, rounded
Visual Scale: small, average, large
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Now lets use these standards to describe the following illustrations.