This is the second in a series of three tutorials on how to draw figures simply. This time we're
going to draw the figure from the side and we're going to draw the figure moving. I'll
show you how to work out the position of elbows and knees excetera. I'm not drawing the head in
any detail, I'm just using the oval to represent the head because I'm done, I've drawn, heads in
other videos which you can look at. Now the idea is to get the correct proportions, we need to measure
the head and we come down three times, one, two. So that is the length of the body down to the pelvis.
So I'm just going to very simply, pop in the neck, we're going to curve out slightly for the
chest and down and we're going to curve slightly for the back here down to this sort
of shape. So you've got this almost like banana shape. Erm, then here we're going to draw a circle. That
measurement is half the height of the body and as we learnt from the previous video on drawing
proportion, the pelvis to the knee is half that distance. That's where my knee is going to be. So
I can draw circle roundabout here it's very simple my knee shape so might be out there. That's
it's half way, then I know that I can turn that measurement down there, so that becomes rest of
my knee down to the ankle and then we can draw the foot here. Remember the foot's about the same size
as the head err don't make it too small. So just have a simple thought about that sort of shape. Now for the
second part of the figure we simply use this as a pivot because, remember everything pivots around
the hips. So I can simply bring my curve around. So if you imagine now my other knee would be
approximately here, pivot around that point. Measure it, to just make sure you have the sort of right size. I can
join that up very loosely to start with. Okay the shape there, I know that's the position there, so I can
bring that one down here, so the other foot's going to be approximately here. Um, so I can bring my
line approximately here. This time we'll draw the foot bent something along these sort of lines, put that
slightly bent as well, who knows. Okay, we've got that basic shape there. Now we learnt from the previous
video that the shoulder to the elbow comes down to the waist. The waist is approximately here, so
that's where the elbow will be, so I can now pivot along that line you see. So, if I want the elbow
here, for example, then I know can bring my lines down yeah so, because it's the same distances from
elbow to wrist so I put my fingers there and I know then that my arm is going to be approximately
at this position, okay. I draw simple hand on the front there we go. The same applies down here as
well I can pivot the arms, it comes out the back so an elbow maybe about here. I get my elbow
here. So all I need to do now is to just to go around this, just to tidy this up a little bit.
Again I'm not going to draw the face properly, I'm just going to draw an oval shape just so we've got
the right sort of size for the head. We can put the neck on the chest, the back will curve around
and around bottom here. It's the top of the leg where the muscles are, this curves out slightly
slight curve here. Again we're just representing very simple shapes here, this is very much about
just getting the basic proportions right. Put all the detail on curves down here we've got a slight
curve comes out there again from leg and same with the arm here, with a shoulder curve around the top of
the shoulder, curve along the back here. Maybe it curves, maybe slightly curves out, curves
down to the elbow and to the wrist and approximately to there, yeah just represent the hand
very simply for this exercise and again curves out and round in and down. So we've got very
simply basic shapes as you can see here. By the time you got hair on the head and everything else
it all looks in proportion. Okay, so you can see there how we've worked out how to draw the running
figure in proportion using simple basic shapes. I hope you enjoyed this art tutorial and if you've
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