How to Draw Body Motion

Video Transcript

"Hello there, I'm Ralph Papa from papagallery.com and today we're learning how to draw. In this clip I'm going to show you how to draw body motion. We'll start off with a figure and this would be a figure of a woman and I'm just going to give it hair that sort of looking like it's flowing and then bring her ear in and neckline here. And then, to see motion we almost have to just see the body now. I'm going to have her arm, sort of straight out like that and I'm going to bend it at the forearm where the arm is coming up and just suggesting her hand is up that way. On the other arm I'm going to bring her shoulder out here, bring right here and fold at the forearm down to her wrist and just have the other arm like that. We'll put a collar on her; we'll bring her out like this and now, the knees, the calves and we'll put, put her up on a toes like that. On the other leg, coming down and here we are right to the calf and put her foot out sideways. Now that doesn't show you a body motion but when you want to show the body motion, if you want her hand to be looking like it's closing this way, we can just sort of put these lines in just around it so that you get a feel that her hand is in going in that direction. And if this arm you want it to be looking like it's raising up, we'll sort of just put some lines back in here that they gradually coming off and it gives the feeling that our hand is moving up. If you looking like she's moving forward, we can just put a couple of background lines back here and it now looks like a body is moving in this direction. So here we'd have this woman; we can put, you know, like boots on here and looking like she's doing some disco. Her hair flowing; if we want her hair to look like it's flowing this way, again, we put some lines, so as to sort of breaking up that way that it gives the feeling of motion. This has been Ralph Papa and thank you for watching."