Okay, guys, we're back and we've got another unit here for you got more enthusiasm this time, that's good. Um, but to do this unit, you and this is me emphasizing it as best I can. You have to have the rule of eight down. And when I say down, I mean down like you really have to know it. I want you to be able to go one. Cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, fill it in, fill it, fill, little booties, hands, shoulders, lines, lines, elbow, elbow, knee, knee and be done.

Honestly, okay, that was pretty fast. I get it. But I mean, like, really? There shouldn't be any questions about you. Like, you shouldn't have any questions about the rule of eight so far. Okay.

If you have questions about it, you need to go back to that that unit and be doing it again. Okay. So I've been emphasizing the rule of eight, pushing the rule of eight, teaching the rule of eight. And now we're going to break the rule of eight. Okay, so how are we going to break it? Well, the rule of eight is just a lesson on proportions.

That, you know, if your lower body is this long, your upper body should be this long and it's just kind of like, idealized proportions. But it's not true. Everybody's got different upper and lower bodies. I've I remember one of my students. He was sitting next to me and when he sat down, he looked like a big dude. And as soon as he stood up Well, he looked bigger sitting down, his upper body was just really long.

So if I was to draw that person, you know, his lower body would probably be here and then you know, like, everything else would be kind of cut in this way, you know, his head, his torso, his hips, and then he had these little Nick's, okay, so and he didn't even have long arms, either his arms were kind of normal length and stuff, right. So this is what I want to do today is I want to play around and you know what, even this person doesn't look that strange, right? You know, like, it just it's, it's not this idealized, kind of rule of eight, right? This one's a little bit different. Okay. So what I want you to guys to do is we're going to still draw the line up and down.

Can you do that for me? Yes. Okay. Get out in the middle cup. Instead of right in the middle, I want you to lift it a little bit higher. There.

Yeah, sure. Yeah. Okay. Okay. It's up to us. We're, this is starting to experiment a little bit, right.

And then the top section, we can cut it into four into for sure. Okay, and the bottom section you could also cut into four if you really like really it only matters that that middle one. Okay, so we're going to do the the head for the top here. We're going to do that the oval that's going down the circle for the hips, and the little booties at the bottom. Yeah, looking good. Okay, you can connect the you know, I guess I should throw the little underwear on this character here.

You can connect the the hidden Down, way down to the feet, you can start to throw in the shoulders. Now this is where we can start to play with it. Why don't we put the hands almost down where the knees would be? And bring it down that way? Something like that. Right?

And then throw the knees right, right at hand length and stuff. Yeah. So what is this looking like now? You know, we're starting to see this kind of slender looking person, right? Yeah, pebble is about their knees here, right? He's even put these longer hands on.

Um, who do you think who does this kind of remind you of a little bit? Slender Man. That's right. Yeah, I would say a little bit like that. Like character. That creepy character Slender Man, you know, we've got the the torso in this half, and then the limbs are super long, right and you could even start Download even more if you want it.

Yeah, I could, you know, stretch this head just a little bit more and give it a more alien esque type of look. Right? And so that's what we're doing here is we're stretching and playing with proportions a little bit. Okay. Um, this one, we stretch the lit limbs, the legs and the arms. Why don't we do a little bit different stretch the torso?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll, we'll do this line. But this time, the legs are going to be really short and stumpy, right? Okay, so then we can cut, cut cut, this will be the upper body section, right? Okay. And this will be the lower body section.

So we could do the hip here. We've got a little underwear line, something like that. I hope you're following along and listen, if we're going a little fast, you can slow it down or whatever and stuff, right? It's no problem. Yeah, go ahead. Gonna have the head up here.

We've got this old But instead of an oval that's bounded out a little bit. Let's make it more oval this way or something, you know, like, squished out this side, right? Yep. Okay, we're going to do the the neck line, you know that the clavicle, actually the collarbone, and then we're going to have some big shoulders off to the side of it. Something like that here. Yep, bigger shoulders.

I want to see huge shoulders on yours. There you go. really push it we're pushing. Well, let's see. Down below here, we're going to have some pretty big feet. And we can connect them up if we want.

Yep. And let's have some big monster hands. And we're going to connect them this way. And we're still having this actually, the wrist break at the crotch level and stuff right? Then go on in and throw in the elbows and the knees. Yeah.

Cool. And so, what do you think? What kind of physique? Do you think this this, this looks like a little bit to? Um, there are two types. I think either extreme dad bod, or, like, extremely muscular.

How would you characterize a dad bod? Well, like, on my screen, I had like, a huge belly with like a dad add like a huge beer belly with a protruding belly button. Okay, so I should do that. Yeah. You know, I've got this belly button and I'll bring it down here. I've got this huge belly.

Here we go. Yeah, so we're starting to just get some stuff in here, right? But you know, all I want you to worry about right now is just getting the skeleton down a little bit. Okay, getting muscle changing the proportions and stuff I got. This is what this unit is about is I need you to focus on stretching that that base skeleton, right? Yeah.

Here's another way to stretch it. And when I say stretch, I mean push pull of the proportions. You can tell them this one we did, we stretched out the limbs. You know, he's kind of stretched up and down, right? This guy is more stretched side side. Yeah.

So when we're talking stretching, I want to do something different here. I want you to do a line and cut it in the middle, right? Yeah. Doesn't have to be too huge. Like, sure. And then cut it in the middle.

Yep. And then the top half is going to be a circle, horn oval circle oval circle oval, global a global. Okay, this is called a chibi cheat. cheapy is when you have a grossly it's not gross but grossly a hugely oversized head right? And so from here we can just start to you know we'll put in the little booties have a bit of a torso you know you can do the hip if you want and the torso, little shoulders, little hands and kind of connected all make sure you get the the joints on in there, right? Yeah, I got it.

Okay, what happens to and you're kind of noticing is like, when you have an oversized head, it looks a little bit more like a baby or a child or cute, you know, you know, um, if you if you have a figure that could be the same height, but the head is super small. The bodies what were we doing? We're doing a big head, big hips. You know? big shoulders, big arms, these types of things, right? And you seem to angry.

You know, this, this guy over here. It's kind of creepy actually. Now I think about it. He's kind of creepy, but he's got the more child type of features and stuff like that, right? Whereas in this guy, it looks more like a, you know, a huge hulking figure and stuff, even though they're the same height, their proportions, the size of the different parts of their body are really really different. Yeah, right.

And so if you want something cute, go with an oversized head if you want something a little bit stronger looking or even monsterous Yeah, you can go with a smaller head, right? That's like you know, the, the not smart character in most TV shows that are like very muscular. Oh, you're not smart. It looks like that. Yeah. That's a good way of thinking of it too is that basically, you know, the larger head sometimes has intelligence.

You know what, I'll draw another one here, here's a torso. And then you have this big, oversized head type of thing. And the the large head can kind of feel like that's the smart character or something, right? Yeah, the small head, you know, you've heard the expression pea brain or something like that. It's really small, right? Okay, so in this unit, what we did was pushed and pulled on proportions.

And the proportions does not mean the size of the character. It means the relationship of the sizes of the parts of the character, okay, whether they have really long arms or short arms or slim or wide, those types of things. That's what this unit was about. So what I want you to do is continue on on your Paper draw out, you know, I don't know three or 30 different more characters and push and pull, you know, try to stretch one out this way more, try to stretch one out this way more. See how far you can really push these proportions and stuff, right? Play with it.

That's what this is. You know what, like I said, I taught you the rule of eight. And now we have to break it. And now you break it. That's perfect. Okay, so that's your homework assignment is break every rule I've taught you.

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