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All right.

So now that we understand the basics of the human form which just basically are comprised of the form

that makes up the human form and the proportions.

Now we can really start diving in and what I want to start with is I want to start with like the very

simple building blocks of the human form because it can be very complicated and I'm sure many of you

have tried drawing drawing it before and you know how overwhelming it can be.

So I want to start by building up your knowledge layer by layer throughout this section of the course

so that you can slowly gain an understanding and start building your skill set for drawing the human

form.

So what we'll start with is the three basic fundamentals of drawing and applying that to the human form.

So the first one is the line and then we'll go over a shape and then we'll go over form.

So let's talk about how line really plays into the human form.

Well we can draw the basic human form of the pose of a human just by using some simple lines.

Now many is a little bit of some shapes just to help us kind of represent the head and the feet and

stuff like that for the most part we just want to stick with the lines.

So if we're drawing a person facing forward.

Go ahead start by drawing the head and then I'm just going to draw a center line coming down like this

generally you want this line to be about eight heads tall.

I don't usually measure it but if if my head looks too big in the end I'll go and shrink it down or

if it looks too small and large it.

But what I'm mostly looking for is just deciding where I want my feet to be and where I want

the top of my head to be.

And then from there I can go and turn my paper and gauge about where you think the center of this is

because that's where my crotch of my person is going to be is right there in the center between the

feet and the top the head.

And from there I can kind of work out a line of where the bottom of the hands will be so right about

there and then let's go ahead and work out where the shoulders will be so the shoulders are going to

be just a little bit further down from the head.

It just depends on how long you want your character's neck to be.

And then I can go ahead and work out about halfway between the crotch and the feet which will be the

bottom of the kneecaps.

All right great.

So we lightly marked our proportions I mean dark in that just a little bit more so you guys can see

it on the camera so we drew those proportions in like the head looks like a pretty good size.

Next what we want to do is we want to decide how wide WE WANT THE SHOULDERS SO in this case it's going

to be a male.

So let's go ahead make the shoulders about three heads wide so I can kind of go ahead and mark out lying

like that to see what the distance is from there to there.

I can do that again over here.

Now when you draw characters you don't have to do this every time.

I just want you to walk through this with me so you can really start remembering what portions of the

human body are.

All right.

So the shoulders will be back wide.

So from that point to that point from there we can start building off the arms.

So if you remember our hands will end a little bit further down from the crowd.

So there is a crotch line and then we drew this line to signify where the bottom of the hands will be

so I'm just gonna go ahead and kind of sketch in just kind of some rounded triangle shapes kind of like

that and they'll just be a little bit further out this direction from the shoulders in the other direction

for the other hand.

It's just something like that and maybe we'll come back enlarges a little bit next.

Let's go ahead and draw the lines in for the arm.

So for the arms we could draw a line just simple lines like this right.

And I know those are really light might be hard for you to see but it's because I want to I'm about

to race and I'm sure you would definitely to draw them.

So this is not I didn't learn this or figure this out myself.

I learned this from the youtube channel spycraft.

And many of you have might have seen it.

So I'm not going to take any credit for this but he has a way of drawing arms and legs when you're just

thinking of it in simple line ways which is where you draw I'm kind of like lightning bull.

So the first line is going to be carried out this way and this will represent the shoulder then the

next one kind of zigzags back in like this and that's going to make the divide between the shoulder

muscle and the biceps.

And then you draw the biceps and by drawing a curved line coming down like this and you want this to

basically end about where the elbow will be and if you remember between the shoulder and the middle

of this arms section so minus the hands starting at the wrist up to the shoulder we want to divide that

in half and that's where elbow will be about and then we're gonna go ahead and kind of this is exact

that back in and then do a curved line like this for the fore arm.

Right.

So just a simple line like that and you'll see later how will develop that into the actual forearm the

biceps and the shoulder.

All right great.

Then we can go ahead and it's dark in the shoulders kind of give it a little bit of a curve.

We're going to do the same thing on the other side.

Now you'll notice that the shoulder is gonna be short.

So it might even be shorter than I'm drawing it here just depends on how long you want that shoulder

muscle to be.

Then the biceps will be a little short as well.

Usually will be a little bit longer than the shoulder muscle but then the forearm is going to be the

longest curved line.

So like that.

So it's short short long.

So just keep that in mind when you're drawing these.

Now we can go ahead and darken in that head and you can see it better than we have the center line which

this line is actually basically our line of action.

Now our character's not really moving they're just standing stagnant right now.

So that's why we're not seeing a very dynamic line of action but this would basically be your line of

action just this line going straight through your character.

All right.

Then we can bring that down to the crotch.

And then what I'll do is I'm gonna go hand draw kind of a curved line like this to represent my hips

so the hips should be just a little bit less wide than the shoulders because this is a male and if you

remember we want our males to have kind of a trapezoid basic shape like that so broad shoulders smaller

waist for doing a female would be the opposite we'd want more narrow shoulders and we would want these

hips to be a little bit wider than the shoulders.

All right.

So once we have that drawn in we can base our legs off that and suggest the same where we're just going

to do these lightning bolt sort of designs.

Just keep it simple we'll just do two so one for the thigh the kneecap and then one for the calf which

will come down like this

and then you can go and drawing kind of a shape like that to represent the foot.

Do the same thing on the other side.

Come back in and then the calf.

So basically as you can see when we draw these lightning bolt type lines to represent our arms and legs

were curving outwards and then inwards and then outwards.

So we're going back and forth from it outwards inwards outwards.

Always make sure that your lines are basically opposite of each other as you move through it.

So we can go ahead and kind of drawn a triangle type foot right there.

All right.

Great in those hands and a little bit sooner you can see that just from some simple lines and these

lines might actually come up a little bit more cause that's the bottom of the crotch.

The leg would actually travel up into the waist a little bit more.

You can see just some simple lines you get the idea of a person standing there and you can use this

to really block out your poses and stuff like that.

So let's try something else.

I have a photograph here of a man running and what we're gonna do is we're gonna go ahead and take this

pose.

We're gonna try to redraw it in this type of a form with just lines.

So first let's start off with the line of action.

So when we look at this guy you can see that scene from the top of his head running down his spine and

out this leg we kind of just get this curved line there.

So go ahead draw a kind of a curved line like this.

So it's not incredibly curved but it has a good amount of curve to it just like that.

Then I'm gonna go ahead and work out the top of the head in the foot.

So in this case a foot kind of goes like that.

So mark that is bottom of the foot even though the toes will be touching the ground down there.

All right.

Next.

Let's go ahead and mark out the center so where we want to divide this in half.

So I would say it's a little bit more complicated because it's curved but that's all right.

Let's go ahead and market right about there.

So that'll be the crotch area and we can divide this into halves or divide the whole thing into quarters.

So now this is going to make up the bottom of our kneecap.

Right next let's go ahead and let's draw our head in.

So

we're going to kind of draw raindrop shape like this.

Now we don't wanna get too much into shapes or just trying to focus on the line for now.

So something like that works just fine.

Maybe you can move that Crouch up just a little bit more.

All right.

Great.

So this gets a little bit more complicated because not only are they in an action pose but they're we're

looking at a lot of different angles so we really have to think about this.

So let's start with the shoulders.

So if we look at the shoulders you can see that he kind of has an arched line coming across like this.

His shoulders are about three heads wide so we're gonna go ahead draw that and try to draw it at the

same angle with the same curve.

So ends just a little bit further out from his head from the front of his face and the shoulder kind

of ends a little bit further out from there.

So since we're kind of looking at him from a three quarters view almost a side view we're actually this

is not actually going to be a literal three heads wide shoulders.

It's going to be squashed a little bit because if we're looking at the shoulders like this straightforward

like we are here then as it turns you can see that the distance becomes less and less long it becomes

shorter.

So we want to make sure that we kind of take that into account here.

So we're going to draw that in next.

Let's go ahead and let's draw this arm in so looking at a shoulder you can see that we kind of get that

line popping out right there for that part of the shoulder.

So go and draw that in.

So just kind of like this and then it comes back

and we get this part of the line for the biceps.

So this is the line that were drawn for the biceps right there and that was exact back in.

And actually since he's been in his elbow it's just going to kind of come out like this and they will

draw the outside part of the forearm which kind of comes down like this

that we can kind of just draw in

sort of a trapezoid shape just to kind of represent the palm of the hand there but we won't get into

the fingers or anything right now.

Next let's go to the other one so this one kind of.

So it starts going curving outwards first for the shoulder.

So that putt right there that's going to curve back up like this and then into the bicep.

So a curve it up like that and into the biceps

and because elbow is bent it gets a little bit more complicated so rather than just going back out like

that it's actually going to come down like this.

And then just bounce back up like that so that might get a little bit complicated for you to understand

but the more you draw from photographs and we're going to start to understand that when the elbow is

bent you don't see it like this as much.

You kind of lose this piece right there and it kind of just swoops from this piece into that piece.

So that's what's going on right here that we can kind of just go ahead and draw in another trapezoid

to represent kind of a fist that he's making

it's great that we can draw on those shoulders that

got our line of action we'll just bring it down into the crotch area and then let's go ahead.

Kind of draw the hips so one leg isn't come off like this

once we get to or the neat bottom of the kneecap should be we want to make this exact shape coming back

up.

Then we draw the calf

that work on the side now.

So on this side we're going to start with the top.

So right here off the top of the thigh and we want to try to mimic the length of this.

So if we were to take our pencil for example we can market by putting the point at the kneecap and then

putting the other side of it there marking it with our finger.

And if we turn that we can kind of line that up now we can see that the length of it should go to right

about there.

So that's a good way to just kind of gauge and make sure that you're drawing everything to the right

proportions even if you're kind of shifting things around.

All right.

So now we can go ahead and zigzag this back.

It's just kind of like that.

You can see that it kind of starts to get squashed and then we'll go ahead and draw the Catherine

something like that and draw the foot in and just use kind of a simple sort of dynamic looking triangle

shape like that

this could actually I think the this leg needs to be starting further back a little bit more

and so we actually want this to end a little bit higher than what we had before.

All right.

So we have a line of action.

And then we have all of the basic parts of the body drawn out so we can really see what the poses what

the action is just by using some simple lines and with very minimal shapes.

All right great.

So that brings us to the end of this lecture so you won't always necessarily be drawing your character

with lines like this.

I just want you to take it to the process of how you should think about drawing the human form because

the more you understand the more it's going to be easy for you to draw the human form and you'll have

a better understanding of it.

So I know this might seem overwhelming and I know sometimes it seems like we're going really slow through

the course but trust me once we build this up in layers you're going to have a much better understanding

of the human form.

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