All language subtitles for 051 Drawing The Arms From Scratch.en

All right.

In this lecture we're going to learn how to draw arms.

So let's go ahead and begin.

So the first way we're going to talk about is kind of the way we already covered where we start with

sort of a lightning bolt type of shape or zigzag shape.

So we had the shoulder first and also let's go ahead and just kind of mark out the length of our arm

roughly and then we want to divide it at the halfway point.

So that's the length of our arm not including the hand.

So first we want to draw on our shoulder then we want to zigzag it back then we want to go ahead and

draw in the bicep part of the arm and then we want to zigzag back and then we want to go ahead and draw

the forearm like that.

It's just nice and simple.

We can go ahead and kind of rough this in with an oval just like that.

And then we can go ahead and add in this side of the arm right there.

And we can do the same thing over here

so that's basically what we're going to get.

We can go ahead and go in there and kind of darken all this detail and we can kind of draw the side

of the body as well so we can draw the pack in there if we wanted to.

And all of this kind of just gets smoothed out.

And if we wanted to we could kind of sketch in and light over like that just kind of represent the bicep

muscle right there

the park is going to kind of reach over into the shoulder area we kind of get that little crease right

there

that a little bit of shading just kind of help with the definition

right.

And then that leads down into the wrist which would be where the hand connects.

So we can just kind of draw and sort of a wedge type of form like that just to represent part of the

hand drawn some fingers there could also drawn a thumb Just keep it simple.

There you go.

That's kind of how to draw the arm.

Now this forum is actually looking a little bit long probably what I should have done is I should have

brought that down just a little bit further because I didn't bring that down.

If someone I can of redraw that and bring it down a little bit more like that.

All right great.

So that's one way of drawing the arm another way you can draw is by breaking it down into its simple

shape.

So for example the shoulder is going to be an oval like we usually draw it and then the bicep will just

kind of be in a rectangle like this.

And then we want to draw in a sort of trapezoid shape but we want it to kind of be a little bit wider

than our biceps

just like that.

Maybe we can angle that out a little bit more

something more like that.

Right.

And then for the hand we could just kind of draw a triangle shape for the Palm area and the will add

some fingers onto that in a second.

So based off of this we can go ahead and just basically smooth all these shapes together so I can just

kind of drawn to the shoulder like that which would then lead into the neck that might have been a little

bit off

in the pack right there.

You really just kind of want to smooth all these shapes together now though be a little bit different

I won't just be a straight rectangle So for example we have the biceps right there so it might kind

of bulge out a little bit more right there.

Then we get kind of this shape that kind of pops out like that and then tapers back into the wrist just

like we kind of got over here

we get the hand we just draw some fingers on that.

There you go.

There is a nice simplified arm right there.

All right great.

Now what if we wanted to draw an arm stretched out.

Let's go ahead and draw that see what that looks like.

So let's start with stretching the PEC out like this

collarbone which goes up into the shoulder so get the stretched out shoulder muscle right there stretched

out pec and draw some of that neck in there as well

have a head

and then if you remember the bottom of the pack just kind of leads right into the bicep muscle when

it stretched out like this.

So we got the bicep muscle right there and that looks like a very thin attachment and that's because

we have to draw this little muscle underneath the armpit if you remember there's a muscle back underneath

there.

You draw that end to make it look right.

You can go ahead.

Kind of drawn that rib cage.

To used as reference and drawing this big back muscle back here

and then if we kind of follow that lightning bolt shape it goes across like that.

And down here and the back there we get the forearm arm kind of draw for arm and sometimes you can kind

of use a mix between using the shapes and using the lightning bolt effect that comes out here to the

arm

and just sketching just a simple shape like that for the fingers.

We had some few lines

thumbing their

right.

So there we go.

There is the arms stretched out so you can see how all interact so we've already drawn this but I just

want to draw it again just so you can really see what it looked like when the arms stretched out.

Now let's talk about the form of the arm really quick.

So the form the form is gonna be broken down into the shoulder which is just kind of a elongated sphere.

So it's just kind of like an oval like sphere that right or we can draw rings around it like this.

So we get that and then this part here which we drew kind of as just a rectangle that kind of gets turned

into a cylinder.

When you're looking at it and its form and it kind of bulges out so it's not just a straight cylinder

it kind of has a bulge to it.

So bulges in the middle of that cylinder and then we have the forearm so the forearm is going to be

kind of a tapered cylinder so we kind of already drew this earlier in the course but it's basically

going to taper off like this.

But when you get to the other end rather than being around like it is up there it's going to morph into

more of a rectangular shape like that.

So let's go ahead and add some construction lines to these just so we can kind of understand what's

going on a little bit better so there's some curved construction lines going across there like that

and we have some lines coming across like this which slowly morph into these flat surfaces

and all of that will just get morphed together.

So the reason why it's a really good to understand the forms is because imagine if you're drawing somebody

from a different angle so let's say we're looking at somebody from a down angle Well we can kind of

draw this shoulder form like that and then behind it.

Because if you remember if we create overlap that's what creates depth.

We're looking down on it.

So we could go ahead and draw this cylinder right here right underneath that just give it that overlap

that we could go ahead and draw the four arm

like this.

All right.

So just like that you can see that we just took these same forms and we just are viewing them from a

different angle and since it's easy to draw geometric forms more than it is just to draw a straight

up arm it makes it easier to visualize those forms from a different angle.

So you could see that this will basically attach into the person's collarbone from there have their

back their head will be right here.

They'll have their pecs.

Maybe they should actually be drawn just a little bit larger but you should be getting the idea right.

So that would be attaching to somebodies body like that would bring that head forward a little bit more

those pecs actually approach sticking out way too far.

But anyways this isn't about drawing that yet but you can see that by understanding the simple forms

it allows you to draw at different angles quite easily rather than having to just draw the arm from

the angle because from here you can take these forms and just kind of smooth them out together add an

elbow there.

Right.

And it's much easier to draw that out.

All right.

That brings us to the end of this lecture.

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