I have all the parts created and a reference or guide for the height, so now it’s time to start to refine the shapes of the different components that make up the Mannequin.
As a refresher, here is what I’m starting from.
And a picture of the little Mannikin that I started out using as reference for the pieces.
Now here is a picture of the large version of the Mannikin that I decided to use as reference for refining the parts of the Mannequin.
I didn’t think I was going to do anything to the head. And all I really did was add and edge loop at the base to sharpen up that corner. I did adjust the neck sphere. I adjusted it’s scale and seated it better in the bottom of the head. Also in the upper body section. So far nothing big.
Working my way down from the head and neck is the upper body, torso, area. This got some serious refining. First I trimmed up the lines along the sides. They looked more like a stubby body with some little extra around the belly. Ok so this would be realistic for most of us, but not what I’m going for at the moment. So I smoothed out the sides and the transition from the chest to the belly. I also flattened the shoulders instead of having them so rounded. I also did some work on the back. Because the torso was created from a sphere, even though I had scaled it in a manner to make it more oval when looked at from the top, the back was still quite rounded. That doesn’t match up with my model, or really what I want so I needed to flatten it.
Flattening the back was another of those processes that wasn’t quite as easy as I would have liked. The soft select tool didn’t work as I would like. It works in a radial fashion by default and I needed it to be more linear. I wanted to select a set of faces, or edges horizontally along the back and then gradually impact those to either side of my selection. I haven’t figured out how to make that happen, or if I can so I did what I could and then once again went about moving points to get things to line up the way I wanted. I also used
more of the wire frame viewing as I did it. It makes it easy to check how the points and edges are lining up with each other.
It’s a little difficult to tell from this shot if this is the front or the back since there is nothing to provide a reference. However, you can see, or at least get an idea of the work done on the torso. The transition for the waist is more tapered and the lines will be smoother.
Just as the neck sphere needed some adjusting so did the waist sphere. I made it large but also scaled it down some in the front to back direction. Doing that let me make it a little larger to better fill the space between the torso and the pelvis segment.
I knew I was going to work on the pelvis segment. It’s looked a little short and not quite right for a while now. The first thing was to taper the top so that it more closely matched 
the dimensions of the waist sphere and the bottom of the torso. I also did some refining of the lines of the pelvis so that the transition was not as pronounced. It also had to be stretched, or lengthend. It was too short. The pelvis being too short was the thing I noticed the most until I started working on it. I had already done a little flattening on the front so I only had to do a little of that on the back side. Yes, it needed flattening. Not a lot, not like the back of the torso. But a bit.
So now I’ve got things looking nice from the head down to the bottom of the pelvis. Though I needed to sharpen the edges at the bottom of the torso and both the top and bottom of the pelvis. I did this by adding some edge loops on the side and on the end caps. I need to start at the waist spheres next. I will probably only do one side from the hip down and then copy it all to the other side, like I did before. But I’ll leave the original in place for spacing and it might allow for seeing the differences as I make changes. Much like you can see the changes if you compare this picture with the picture of what I started with at the top of this post.