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In this lecture we're gonna be talking about something that's really important when it comes to drawing

the human form.

So even if you're drawing kind of more cartoony type animation characters perspective is still gonna

be a very important part of that.

Now if you know how to draw a perspective like drawing a cube in one point perspective or a cylinder

and two point perspective or something like that which is basically just where you have a vanishing

point you have a horizon line and then you have these lines that go off to that vanishing point.

So this could represent kind of the end of a street with a bunch of buildings on it or it could represent

kind of a cube like this or something like that.

And this is just some common and simple perspective.

But when you're drawing the human form perspective can become so much more complicated than that and

it becomes so complicated that you can't really just use a vanishing point for your perspective.

You can kind of use that as a guide if you're drawing the the chest for example like this

and then you're drawing the pelvis like this the maybe you're drawing a cylinder between those to connect

them are probably a little bit bigger the proportions are kind of off.

But my point is that you can't just do perspective for each one of you you can't just have that going

off to a vanishing point.

And this one going off to a vanishing point and these going up to a vanishing point it it just would

become so complicated and it wouldn't be worth the time.

And so what we need to do is we need to kind of learn a series of tricks and ideas about drawing the

human form and perspective because what we're really looking for is just trying to make sure that certain

parts of the body kind of stay aligned all the time.

So what I mean by this.

Well let's go ahead and draw the body so switch over.

Let's do it blue.

I'd like to draw in blue so I'll switch that over to blue.

ALEX Good.

We're gonna do is let's go ahead and let's draw sort of a figure.

So we're going to start with the head that now let's do a cylinder for the neck that now for this.

Don't worry about your proportions the proportions aren't too important right now.

Or we're really focusing on is the concept of perspective.

So what we'll do is all represent the chest with kind of a trapezoid like shape.

So go ahead draw the top surface like this

and then what we'll do is we'll just kind of angled down a line like that and angle down a line like

that for the front of the chest and then we'll angle down the line coming more straight down like this

and we'll probably have it be about that big.

So what we do here is we have one line angled off like that.

So in reality this line is going off to a vanishing point somewhere way over here.

And so what we need to decide is how How extreme do we want that Vanishing Point to be.

So for example if I were to go ahead and draw this line like that on the bottom of the chest that means

at the Vanishing Point is meeting if we draw those two lines it's basically meeting somewhere right

about there which is really close to a drawing.

And typically that's not going to be the case typically you're vanishing point is going to be like way

off the page.

And so what we want to do is we want to kind of angle this in but not too much.

So it could almost appear to match.

But as we get down lower what's going to happen is these lines that are gonna represent different parts

of the body are going to become more and more angled as we move downwards.

So now that we have that drawn in.

Let's go ahead and let's draw a kind of a cylinder for the body just kind of draw

shape like this for the waist and then we'll go ahead and draw the

pelvis.

So the pelvis we need to angle it like this.

So it's kind of following the same angle as these lines up here

then we can go ahead and draw the legs so for the legs I'm gonna go ahead just use cylinders for the

thighs so legs will come down like this.

And even the knees right down here they need to fall the same ones.

So let's go ahead and check.

So you kind of follow the same line like that.

So we need to kind of draw that.

And so from drawing that I can already tell that this knee right here needs to go down.

So let's go ahead and race that out and we'll redraw it and bring it down further.

So that's kind of stuff following that perspective and we can do just kind of a circle for the knee

we'll do another cylinder

for the calf

again let's check to make sure we're following it and it's pretty close.

But I could probably bring the this one down a little bit further and then let's go ahead and draw the

feed in.

So for the feet we still want to follow that same perspective.

So kind of draw a line in like that just to represent the end of my feet.

Great.

Let's go ahead and draw this arm in so I'm just gonna go ahead and start by doing an oval like that

then kind of a rectangle for the biceps triangle for the for the forearm and then let's go ahead and

draw and kind of a wedge type of form for the hand.

And what we want to do is we want to go ahead and draw a line going across like this.

If the hand obviously when we're drawing a pose we don't want a pose like this is a very boring pose.

But we always want to start off with the simplest of poses to understand a concept.

So the reason why I'm drawing these armed super boring and straight down is so that you can see that

when we go over to the other side if we draw this line across following the same angle this arm it needs

to be kind of shrunken down a little bit

and actually we probably need this part right here to be brought up because everything needs to fall

that perspective.

So if we draw a line from this elbow across like that kind of following that same thing the elbow actually

needs to be more like up there.

So we can go ahead and he races out and adjust that

and this is what's gonna make your drawings look correct.

When it comes to drawing in perspective so we can go ahead and draw this hand in so the bottom of the

sand should line up at the same point as this hand over here.

All right.

Grace you can see that we're just kind of drew the simple geometric form of a body in perspective.

So it's not a hundred percent correct perspective but it's close enough that it looks good and it looks

real and that's what we want.

That's where what we're really going after when we're drawing characters is we're just trying to draw

something that looks close enough that people wouldn't notice it doesn't look incorrect.

It just looks right.

So let me show you one example before we start looking at photographs of places where people might get

things wrong.

So an example would be let's say the rib cage.

I'm gonna say somebody is kind of laying down like this.

Right and the rib cage opening kind of goes like this and when somebody is laying down that becomes

a lot more prominent because usually they're waist kind of sucks and a little bit you get their belly

button right there kind of curves up like that

right then you get the chest going across the front of it.

And since you're laying down or seen it from this angle you got to really see the roundness of the chest

the pecs

right.

And so what's going on here.

That looks good.

We can also draw the nipples in because this is another good example is if we draw a line going across

the nipples like this you can see that they're aligned in that direction and so other things so for

example the bottom of the rib cage right here we want those are kind of lineup in that same angle as

well.

And they do and if you're drawing breasts you'd want the bottom of the breast line at the bottom of

the pecs to line up all of this needs a line up until you get let's say down to the pelvis maybe their

body kind of twist and their pelvis is kind of angled a different way like that well then those can

be angled like that but you want to think of the chest and the rib cage area kind of its own separate

part and everything kind of needs to be moving in the same angle the head is also its own separate part

so maybe the person is kind of looking down at their body so all the lines on their face could kind

of be angled like that or maybe more downwards each separate part of the body can kind of have its own

angle but when you're looking at the chest so that's why we drew the chest as a rectangle type of cube

here is because that's one sort of unit and everything on that the nipples the bottom of the rib cage.

All of it needs to kind of be angled in the same direction.

And so what would make this very incorrect is if we went ahead and let's say we drew the bottom of the

rib cage on this side

down like that it doesn't look absolutely terrible but it doesn't look right and you're drawing can

look better.

And the reason why it doesn't look right is because if we draw that line through there you can see that

it's angled differently than the nipples which are all part of the same unit.

So we want to make sure that that things are lining up correctly across from each other.

All right let's have a look at some examples of photographs.

So right here we have this lady and we can draw a line through a lot of the different parts of her.

So for example we can draw a line through the eyes and we can draw a line through the corners of the

mouth and from nostril to nostril and we can even draw it through the bottom of the chin like that we

can draw it through the middle of or this point in the jaw and you can see that when we do that it all

lines up on her head.

Now if we start drawing it through her body we can go ahead and draw a line through her shoulders so

shoulders are just kind of straight line across like that we can draw it through the bottom of her breasts

and we can also do it through.

You can't see it too well but somewhere right about here is where her rib cage is going to be.

And so you can see it's right there as well.

So it's actually a little bit slightly angled it's just completely straight but you can see all that

kind of runs the same way.

So the perspective looks good on it and yes the knees aren't completely lined up so it doesn't work

as well but you can see in that example pretty well how the perspective looks good because it's a real

photograph.

And so that's what we're trying to achieve is kind of that real life.

Look let's have a look at this guy.

So this one is really good because we can kind of see it all going off to a vanishing point we can actually

see one of these leading lines right through the barbell that he's holding so we can follow basically

everything just like that barbell because it's kind of all in line.

So for example his feet kind of go off to that Vanishing Point his knees go off to that vanishing point

is nipples even go after that Vanishing Point they line up to that vanishing point his eyes they go

off to that Vanishing Point as well.

And so you can see that his whole body the top of his knees or the top of his thighs are going off to

the vanishing point the bottom we can't see the other side of his rib cage as well but you can imagine

that it's right about there that's also going off to the vanishing point.

And so that's what we're looking for when we're drawing our poses we're trying to check and make sure

that the perspective looks correct.

So things that we know that should be in line with each other we want to make sure that they are in

line with each other.

All right.

That brings us to the end of this lecture so if you're ever drawing poses just go ahead and post them

to the Q and A session on the course ask if everything looks a line if the perspective looks correct

and that will help you along and understanding how to draw your forms in perspective is by getting those

critiques you're not supposed to the Facebook group and other students can help you and critique your

work to help you along the way.

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