All language subtitles for 073 Drawing Simple Body Gestures.en

All right.

When it comes to drawing gestures you have to kind of build it up in layers of learning.

So what I want to do is I want to first start this lecture off by learning kind of the basics and how

to draw a very simple gesture.

And there's nothing wrong with a simple gesture you'll learn later that we actually want to practice

drawing super simple gestures very often and very quickly and so we're going to learn how to do that

now and they're going to move on to more complicated gesture drawings in the next few lectures.

So for this first one let's just talk about just the super simple scribbles we stick figure type of

gesture drawing.

So right here we have this profile view of this dancer.

And the reason why I chose this one is because this is going to be really easy to break down because

we're just kind of seeing a profile view.

There's not all these limbs going off in different directions.

There's not all this crazy form going over to seeing like basically a perfect profile.

And so what we can do is for this first one is let's go ahead and let's just kind of sketch out the

line of action.

So we'll start with a line of action so her body is kind of curving like this right.

And so I would say that's the line of action and you can almost even say that then there's kind of an

S curve that goes like this

right.

Something like that.

And then you get her arms kind of coming up like this

and get her calf and her other leg we're just kind of giving a direction to everything.

All right Bonnie and her head is back here like this and you can see that this doesn't necessarily super

resemble her.

We can sketch it out a little bit more to look a little bit more like her.

So for example I can assume some more volume to her body

problem with that head back a little bit

and honestly I would probably actually say that this line of action is kind of a c curve.

And then this leg I'd probably turn into its own line of action that kind of curves like this

right.

So you can kind of scribble that out just super simply and you can see that it doesn't really look like

it doesn't look very good at all and that's totally fine.

The point of this is it's kind of just figure out what the direction is of each part of the body.

So this is a very scribbled version what we can do is next is let's try another version.

So it's gonna be very similar.

So we start with that line of action.

So there's something kind of like this right just kind of running through the center of her body and

then what we can do is we can just kind of start sketching this out a little bit better

so we don't get super detailed with anything like that.

We just kind of want to get the gist of it all down.

All right.

So you're kind of put her hand right there fingers are kind of curving out like this and we'll just

leave the other hand behind out.

Just keep it nice and simple

so there's very directional line to it like that sort of hips and the butt thigh that sign right.

And so even though this line here is kind of straight I'm exaggerating it for the gesture some kind

of curving that Shin inwards because it has a slight curve to it

and then we could do the other leg

making sure that everything has a gesture to it.

We don't just want anything to be a straight line or not have any motion attached to it.

All right great.

So that looks pretty good.

So you can see that looks a little bit nicer than our last one and all it is is just a quick little

sketch.

Mine might resemble hers a little bit more than yours but it's OK if yours doesn't look exactly like

her have correct proportions.

This isn't about drawing the proportions or anatomy it's about capturing the direction of the lines

and capturing the gesture so you can see this gesture here kind of resembles this gesture over here

has the same sort of energy and spring to it.

And that's what we're trying to capture.

All right.

So that's kind of our second way of sketching.

Let's go ahead.

Let's add new layer and then for our final one on this lecture is shape.

So we kind of can sketch the gesture out by using shapes.

So for example let's see.

So we start with the line of action

put the head there.

And then for the chest.

What I can do is I can just kind of use kind of a curved sort of rectangle shape like this

and again just take note of how messy this is.

They're not super perfect looking drawings or anything like that

there as messy as you need them to be.

Then there's her hips.

And then for her legs we get kind of a curved sort of rectangle shape like this and for the calf to

get occurred in words like that go ahead and move this just so I have more drawing space so there's

her calf

and you kind of get a triangle like that for that foot maybe kind of a rectangle coming off of that

that's curved then for the other leg we kind of get another curved rectangular shaped like we did for

the other thigh

and again we get a curved shape like that for the calf

and then for the arms we can kind of do go ahead and shrink this down a little bit because I'm running

out of space on my page

for the arms you can go ahead and kind of curve a rectangle and like this and then curve kind of a trapezoid

out like that and for the hand we can kind of just do like a rectangle like that

and then some kind of curve triangles for the fingers and a curved one for the thumb like that.

And you can see that we've broken her down into some just very dynamic looking shapes which really helps

tell the what direction everything on her body is kind of moving right.

And by drawing these it really starts to give you a real understanding of the energy of the pose which

is what drawing gesture drawings is all about as understanding the energy in that movement.

Because when you can capture that and you're drawing then you can make your characters look a lot more

alive and have a lot more character and attitude to them.

All right.

That brings us to the end of this lecture if you've any questions about gestures or dynamics.

Go ahead and post them to the Q and A section of the course and I'll make sure that they get answered.

Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next lecture.