Okay, in this class, we're going to go over how the body moves, how when the torso section of the body moves in a certain direction. What happens to the lower hip section? How does one effect the other? Okay, so let's move that body. Okay, you might have seen one of these in one of your art classes maybe. And the reason I'm showing it to you is because as you can see the upper torso section and here we have the bottom hip section and the two are interrelated.

When one section of the torso moves, it affects the lower hip section. Okay, so I have outline the torso section and the hips section. Now, this is very important, this is a very important principle. So pay attention. Watch this, when one shoulder goes up, this hip goes down. And when this shoulder goes down, this hip goes up.

Same is true in the opposite direction. In other words, when this shoulder goes up, this hip goes down. When this shoulder comes down, this hip goes up. This is a very important principle in how the body moves. So make sure you really understand this clearly. Before we go any further.

Another way of showing you see when this shoulder goes up, this hip comes down. When this shoulder comes down, this hip goes up and true. The same is true in the site as well. So that's how the body moves. Okay, I want to go over something called the plumb line. If you're building a house, you want to make sure that the walls are absolutely perfectly straight, otherwise you will tip over.

Same with the body, there's a plumb line inside our body. That keeps us in balance. And if if it's not balanced, then we would fall over. So let's look at the plumb line. The plumb line is an imaginary line that goes through the body. It starts from the top, from the neck area through the body down to the feet, and it is perpendicular to the floor.

Perpendicular means this is a right angle. This is a 90 degree angle. And that's what keeps the body in balance to make sure you have Understand this I drew something and I drew it the wrong way again I repeat this is wrong just to show you what you should not do. So, here is my floor and the plumb line is perpendicular to my floor. Therefore from the neck area my plumb line would look something like this. Okay.

So, notice that the plumb line does not fall inside the feet, this is wrong, you can see that this figure would take over and and fall this. If this was a real person, this person would just fall over. So, this is the wrong way to do a sketching. Okay in the next class, we're going to go back to the original cookie. And I'm going to show you how to use it as a template to start sketching your ideas. Okay, I'll see you in class.