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In this lecture we're gonna be learning about balance in the pose.
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So what is balance.
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Balance is just basically when you're drawing a figure or a pose.
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You want them to look like their balance.
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So you don't want them to look like they're about to fall over.
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You want them to look like they're nice and sturdy.
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The times when you do want them to look unbalanced as when somebody is in action.
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So if somebody is walking or running or jumping.
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Those are the times you want to look in balance because you wanted to kind of look like they're falling.
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So let's have a look at some photograph examples and I want to draw our own example.
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So let's start with this first one right here.
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You can see that we have this woman and she would be considered balance.
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Now let's talk about why.
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So if we were to draw her rib cage like that basically somewhere within this area where the color bones
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are in step we want to draw up a line coming straight down to where her feet are and you can see that
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that line falls between her feet.
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Now it doesn't fall directly between her feet because most of the weight is on this leg right here.
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And that's why you kind of see it being more closer to this line if you wanted to even out the weight
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where you could do as you can move this leg out.
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So it's kind of evenly the same way as this leg over here or if you wanted to shift the weight over
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to this other leg what you do is you'd straighten this leg out so that it was more in line with this
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center of gravity line and you'd move the other leg out but the reason why this is balanced is because
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the center of gravity line is between the two legs so it's evenly dispersed.
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Now let's have a look at another example.
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So here's a girl and she is actually falling because her center of gravity is off.
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If we were to go ahead and kind of decide right about here in the middle of the chest is where her center
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of gravity will be.
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We'll go ahead and bring a line straight down to the level of her feet and you can see that there.
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The line is off to the side of both her feet and that is bad unless you want them to look like they're
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falling.
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But if you want him to look balanced this is not good.
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And that's why she looks like she's falling over is because we automatically know that she's unbalanced
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because our center of gravity isn't evenly dispersed on to her feet.
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So we look at a another example.
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So here we have a male and this is a good example where the centre of gravity can actually be pushed
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to one leg or one limb if this is the center of gravity is right there about the middle of the chest
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we draw a straight line straight down.
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You can see that it just goes right through this leg and this leg back here it's almost not holding
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any weight.
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It's just kind of helping him keep his balance a little bit but it's not really holding much of the
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weight because you can see that he's just kind of has his toe on the ground and that's the only contact.
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So this foot is not holding very much weight.
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Most of it is going into this foot.
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If we were to see this from the front it probably looks something like this center of gravity probably
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coming down like that.
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We have his foot that's holding all the weight and then this back leg right here is probably kind of
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crossing back like this
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and just barely touching the ground with his toe
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as you can see his body is kind of leaning over here so that means right here his body would also have
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to be leaning over like that
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right.
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Let's look at one more example.
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So our center of gravity it doesn't always have to use the feet.
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It can use the knees it can use the hands it can use anything that's really holding up the weight.
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So in this case as Spider-Man you can see that he actually has three points of contact with the ground.
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So we have the foot right here.
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We have the knee right there and the hand right there.
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And so if we draw a line coming straight down from the chest that you can see that basically he has
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a hand on the ground and he on the ground and his foot on the ground.
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And you could even probably include that foot back there but most of it is probably these three spots.
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And what it's doing is it's evenly dispersing most the way across those three points of contact.
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So really what you're looking for for balance is you need a point of contact and it either needs to
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be divided up between different areas different points of contact or it needs to be going through one
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point of contact.
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So for example with this one it was just going through his one leg.
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That's where the balance is all the way is being held in that one leg.
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So let's go ahead and let's draw our own example.
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So we'll go ahead and add a new layer.
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Let me go ahead and fill this background with whites.
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We have a new blank canvas.
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I'll switch my color over to kind of a blue color dark blue
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All right.
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That looks good.
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So let's go ahead and draw.
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So let's say we're drawing a male character.
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So I'm going to start by just kind of roughly sketching out the head
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he'll have his neck come down then we'll have his just do an oval to represent his rib cage that and
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in this case what I'm going to do is I'm going to kind of draw some straight lines coming across like
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this because I want that to be kind of the front plain of the chest right.
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So if it's kind of a cube it be kind of like that and then I want his pelvis area to kind of be twisted
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a little bit more forward
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so now we know how long the leg needs to be it needs to be from here to there.
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So just kind of eyeball how long that looks that looks pretty good.
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And then I can go ahead and draw in the leg.
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So you just kind of make lightning bolt.
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Sheep
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do the same thing on the sun
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scratch my shoulders
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all right.
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So there we go.
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There's just kind of a rough sketch of a pose.
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And let's go ahead and check it and see if it's balanced so I'll just switch over back to my red.
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So the center of the chest is right about there if we ring a line straight down.
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You can see that it just kind of runs right there through that leg.
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Now this probably actually could have been the chest could actually probably move back a little bit
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because right now it doesn't actually look like all the way is on that leg.
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And so what I would want to do to fix it is I'd want to move the whole chest and arms and head and all
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that I'd want to move it back in that direction and that way the center would kind of move more to the
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middle of those two.
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So what I could do really quick since I'm in Photoshop just to demonstrate this to you.
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I can go ahead and just kind of cut that off right about there.
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And then using my move tool I can just go ahead and move that over a little bit
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and then I can just kind of smooth this back into each other don't fix it
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so I can just kind of smooth these lines all back in just kind of fix it up a bit.
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All right let's go ahead check it now.
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So if I drop a line from the center the chest come straight down like that.
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You see it's moved over a little bit and it's kind of more evenly dispersed kind of because of the angle
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we're looking at the legs as well.
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It doesn't look as even but it is a little bit more even.
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So your balance is something that you really want to be conscious about.
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So it's not that you're drawing is always how do we balance in fact sometimes it might be boring if
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they're all balance some of your character poses you want them to be running or jumping and so they're
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basically falling so you want that balance to be off.
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Now when we talk about gestures in a future lecture we'll learn more about action poses.
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But for now I just want you to understand what makes a pose balanced.
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And I want you to be aware of that.
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So when you're drawing you wanna make sure that it looks balanced so it doesn't look like your character
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is about to fall over.
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All right.
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Thanks for watching and I'll see you guys in the next lecture.
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