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In this lecture we're going to be talking about action poses.
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So we talked about the line of action which is the first part of drawing a dynamic and action type pose.
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But in this lecture we're going to talk about what specifically makes oppose an action posed.
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So when we're drawing people and we want them to look balanced we talked about how we have to draw that
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line down from the center of their chest down to their feet.
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And if that line kind of lands between either two of the feet or right through one of the feet then
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that means that they're balanced and typically a balanced pose is balance because the person can hold
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that pose.
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So somebody for example that's standing there with their feet spread apart evenly.
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People can do that for a long time you can take a picture of that or you can sit there and study them
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and draw them.
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But when you're doing an action pose that's something where you're in the middle of an action and you
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usually can't stop.
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So let's talk about the few different things that kind of separate an action pose from a static balanced
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pose.
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So right here you can see that we have a photograph of this young man.
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He looks like he's jumping in the air is about to kick or something like that.
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But you can tell that he's in action.
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So even if you didn't have all this background behind him he didn't know he wasn't touching the ground
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you would know that he wasn't touching the ground because of the way his feet are.
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So first of all we can tell that he is not touching the ground because he's kind of at a point.
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And typically we don't just stand on our toes like that especially just one toe.
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So we automatically kind of know that this toe is not touching the ground and might just barely be on
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it and might be a little bit above it but there's not really any weight on that foot.
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So we know that he's in the air.
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The only way to be in the air is if you're jumping.
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We also know that he's kind of in the middle of his jump because his other foot is higher than this.
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So anytime we bring one of the feet up higher than the other one it really kind of just gives that impression
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that somebody is in the middle of an action they're taking a step they're jumping they're kicking something
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like that.
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So having that difference in height for the feet is going to help us with that looking like an action
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pose.
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All right let's go ahead and let's look at another photograph so you can see here.
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Here's one more example of somebody lifting their foot up.
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You can see that we have foreshortened going on here because this foot is closer to the viewer so it's
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a little bit larger and the leg kind of gets larger as it moves out forward toward you.
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And this one as it gets further back the calf and stuff actually gets smaller and the foot gets smaller
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as it moves away.
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But another thing is that even when you take perspective into account.
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So if we kind of draw a perspective line like this going off to his footprints you can see that the
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line goes out to this front foot that's touching the ground.
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But this one back here is above that line.
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So we know that that foot is off the ground even if we don't visualize that perspective line going off
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to a vanishing point.
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Our brain picks it up it can tell that the foot is off the ground.
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And so we know well this person must be in action.
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They're not they're not just holding one foot up.
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Usually if somebody is holding one foot up that's a really hard post to hold.
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And so having that one foot up and one foot on the ground or both feet off the ground either way having
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one higher than the other really helps you create that action pose.
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All right.
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Now let's talk about leaning into something.
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So this is an example of a bad action pose.
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So I know this is a photograph but if you were to be trying to draw somebody punching and it looks like
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this look really bad it wouldn't look real.
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And the reason why is because this girl's not leaning into it.
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It's not just because of this guy's bad looking punched face but but it's because she's not leaning
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into it.
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If you actually look at it you can see that her body is actually angled backwards.
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So everything about this looks fake it doesn't look like she's actually punching him.
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What we could do is if we were to just kind of draw redraw this
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like this and we had her body further back maybe his her arm was more stretched out and her body was
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leaning into it maybe not that much it would look a lot more convincing.
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So let's look at an example where somebody is leaning into a punch and look at the difference she can
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see that this girl her body is angled if we look at her back or her line of action her body is angled
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forwards.
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So that's what's making this punch look a lot more real.
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Obviously there's other things too like her hair flying up in the air stuff like that.
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But if we were to take her hair away we could still tell that she was really leaning into something
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and making action happen because of the way she's leaning into it.
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So when we draw that arm that's punching in to this guy's hand it looks a lot more real because her
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body is lean forward into that action.
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So leaning forward is a really important part of creating action not every action pose it is going to
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call for you leaning into your pose.
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But a lot of the times it will.
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So this is something to keep in mind.
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Now most time when you're drawing action poses you're probably going to be looking at reference.
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So typically you just have to kind of copy what you see.
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But I just want to go over these key points of action poses so that you can kind of check your poses
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for these things.
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So if you want something to look like they're punching into somebody or running into something you wanna
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make sure that they're leaning into that thing that they're doing.
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All right.
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Let's have a look at one last example.
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So right here we have a man that's running and this is our third example which would be falling or imbalanced.
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So if we went ahead and we drew that line coming down from the pit of his chest you can see that both
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his legs are on this side of his center of gravity.
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And so that means that he's imbalanced you can't ever have this.
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So if this guy's leg was like this and I was touching the ground well then he would be balanced but
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because it's not there both on the same side of this center of gravity that means that he is imbalanced
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and he's going to fall forward.
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So if you didn't know that he was running or was going to catch himself you would think that he would
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just fall forward right on his face.
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But because we understand what running and walking is we know that as soon as he starts to fall forward
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too far this leg is going to come forward and it's going to catch himself.
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And so anyways basically having this imbalance is what's creating that action in the pose is the fact
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that he looks like he's about to fall over.
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Now even if he was going to fall over and not catch himself that would still be an action pose.
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You'd be right in the middle of falling and creating some action.
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So having this imbalance in your pose is going to help greatly in creating oppose it looks like somebody
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is in action.
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All right.
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So what we're going to do now is let's go ahead.
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Let's draw a few gesture drawings and we can kind of practice this a little bit.
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So let's start off by drawing one where somebody is kind of not on both their feet so maybe they have
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one toe on the ground or something like that.
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We're going to kind of make it look like they're jumping.
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So I want to go ahead and just kind of start by sketching out kind of a torso like this do a ball for
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the waist.
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Then there's the pelvis and then I'll just kind of have the arms come off kind of like this
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one will come off like this.
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So this is gonna be from the back.
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This might look kind of weird because maybe you didn't realize that we're kind of viewing this person
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from the back but this is gonna be from the back.
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It's kind of like that we can draw their head in kind of like looking up like this or something
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and then what we'll do is for this leg I'm just going to kind of draw down like that.
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Then just kind of sketch something like that for the foot.
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So they're just kind of standing on their tippy toe on that leg and then for the other one.
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Let's go ahead and just kind of draw the leg out like this.
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So this leg will be way more up and off the ground do a little bit of for shortening in there so as
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calf will be foreshortened because it's kind of angling towards our viewer a little bit
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more like that maybe it'll actually bring that on a little bit more and it looks kind of bad.
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Woops No my racer size so redraw this kind of bring it in a little bit more.
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All right so maybe something like that and obviously this is just kind of a gesture drawn so we'd really
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have to work on it a little bit more to make it look really good but just kind of a simple one of somebody
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jumping up kind of viewing them from the backside.
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All right.
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So next let's go ahead and let's try another one.
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So for this one let's do one where somebody is punching.
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So let's kind of make them punch.
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We're kind of punching downwards kind of a downwards punch so we can start with a line of action I'll
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do a line of action for his arm and then I'm also going to do a line of action for his body.
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So for his body I'll just kind of do something like this
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so there's a head
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here's kind of the arm
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the other arm kind of pull back like this there's that fist.
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So it's almost like you just punch somebody
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that leg and then his leg would kind of come back like this is calf and then we see his foot.
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So that's some very extreme foreshortened and you can see that the calf right there is you almost can't
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even see it.
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Because of the way it's angled backwards and for the other leg you'll kind of see that this leg will
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be in the same pose but you'll see it from a different angle.
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So I should make a little bit more sense to you.
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Just kind of doing that.
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We're seeing this from more of a side angle
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those legs probably a little bit bigger but that's a pretty decent gesture.
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So you can see that this is an example of somebody leaning into something.
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So it looks a little bit more real it looks a little bit more like he's actually punched or something
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like that because he's leaning forward
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right now let's have a look at one more example so let's do one of somebody that's running so well doing
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where somebody is running they'll kind of be very angled to the side like this.
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So this is an example actually where you can kind of have a straight line of action maybe could curve
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it a little bit more but pretty straight.
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But we angle it so it's not just straight up and down because that's really boring.
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And so from here let's just go ahead and draw ahead
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sketch out a torso pelvis
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All right.
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So there's the other thigh but they're going to be running.
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So this leg is going to kind of kick back up like that and you kind of see their other foot back there
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I mean go ahead and draw the arms in probably one arm will go right there can come back up towards his
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face like that and the other one
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coming off his body like this
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right.
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So this looks like they're running not just because one leg is lifted up off the ground but also because
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of his center of gravity so if you drop that line coming straight down you'll see that both his feet
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are on this side of that line and so that means that he's going to fall over this way basically.
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But if he's running he has his momentum has all that stuff that's going to keep him from falling.
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But that's what's making him look like he's in action is the fact that he looks like he could fall over
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at any minute he is falling and this pose basically.
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And so that's creating that action.
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All right.
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That brings us to the end of this lecture.
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If you have any questions about how to draw your characters in an action pose.
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Go ahead and post them to the Q and A section of the course so I can answer them.
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Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next lecture.
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