Okay, guys, here's another unit for you. This one we're gonna do line of action. Joey, have you ever heard of that before? Yes, yes, you have because you're my kid. And you probably hear me talking about this kind of stuff all the time. But I'm gonna guess that the average person hasn't heard this before.

Yeah. If you, you know, if you're studying art, and you're looking on YouTube, there is something similar to line of action, though. Have you heard of it? No. gesture, gesture draw. line of action is kind of like the first step in gesture drawing.

And that's kind of trying to show movement or show stance or show something simple before you get into the details of it. All right. Yeah. Well, I'm going to take what we did before already. You know, the rule of eight, breaking the rule of eight and all that kind of stuff, but I'm going to show you how to start moving the figure around a little bit. Okay, but this one's a little bit special.

Instead of just using you can use a blank piece of paper, it's no problem. But in this course, I've also included a piece of paper specifically for attached to this unit, okay? And it's going to look exactly like how you see on my screen right now, you're going to see a bunch of figures, and we're going to kind of draw over them around them in front of them behind it, whatever and stuff, you know, and hopefully this line of action will make a little bit more sense once you see what we're doing here. Okay. So let me start off and see how this rolls. This first guy, Joey, what's he doing?

Running sprinting, sprinting? Yeah, he's not just running. He's full force going forward and stuff again. So the line of action is basically almost always you can follow the spine. The spine is along the back here, right? So if I was to follow that spine, it would look something like this.

This would be my line of action. Yeah. Okay. So if I was to try to replicate right beside it, his line of action would be something like this. Do you want to try to draw that on yours? Like that?

Basically, that's perfectly it. Okay, try to draw it again next to it. Good. And you could see how much this curvature how much things are going forward, moving this direction, bending in this nice arc, right? That's a big line of action. Now, if I want to start to add my finger into it, well, I'm even on him.

I can cut, cut, cut, you know, his foots actually down here, right? And I can kind of start to cut here's his head. Here's the belly button. Here's the knee, those types of things, right. So if I want to do that here, I can kind of come from this side, put the head on halfway is going to be the hip. Right?

Yeah, I can put his head in here, do the torso that's leaning forward here. His head is coming forward. Right? Yeah. All this kind of stuff. So why don't you follow along with me Actually, you know what I'm going to back this up.

Okay. Let's see if we can replicate a little bit on this second line of action here. Okay, so we've got this sweeping line of action, just like we can see off to the side here. We're gonna set where the head might be at the top and the foot might be at the bottom. Yep. Okay, we're going to kind of cut it in half, roughly.

There. Sure. cut that in half and then cut that in half and that in half, right. So, you know, especially this top section here, we really worry about those cuts. here will be the hips. Here's going to be the torso and here's going to be the head Now that heads gonna be in a different position because he's kind of looking this way, right?

Okay. Yep. Okay, let's worry about this first part, his neck, you know, we're going to give a little bit of space from below the head here. His neck is going to be here. We're going to put one shoulder here. And if you can see, you know, we've got one shoulder here, we can kind of look through.

And on the other side, there's this shoulder on the other side there too, right? Yeah, we can see that from the shoulder, it comes back to the elbow out to the hand, so we can come back to the elbow out to the hand. His hand is all splayed out. Yep. And this one's going to come forward to the elbow and up to the hand forward to the elbow and up to the hand. The hands gonna be up here.

Right to the elbow. Up to the hand. Perfect. Okay, from the hip here, this leg comes forward to the knee and then down to the foot. So To the knee down to the foot. Yep.

And from this back one here it comes down to the knee and back to the foot. So this back one is going to come down to the knee, and back to the foot. Yeah. Okay, so listen, this is not going to be the most beautiful character that you've ever drawn. But you know what, even just sitting here looking at Joey's drawing, I'm really impressed. Think about that.

Like, think about how you were drawing a stick figure only minutes ago and stuff I got right. And now you've got this character that's, that's moving, right? You can see the motion that's happening in this character. It's really awesome. So we're going to continue on with this. We're going to go down to this next one.

This one's a little bit harder, because you know, if I'm following the line of action, this one actually comes this way. It's a bit of a bend. It's coming through his back, but then the action carries force into To the foot. Okay, so you could do it a few ways. Listen, when we're tracking line of action, there's sometimes more than one way you could do it. I think another way you could do it would be something like this.

Yeah. Right. But I like this one because I like the force going into the foot. Yeah. So let's see if we could draw it off to the side. Basically, a big oil.

Yeah. Right. And then let's see, why don't we cut this first section? You know, here's the head. Here's the bottom of the pelvis. Right?

We're gonna cut it in half. cut that in half again. Cut it in half again. I told you By now, you should be really good at that rule of eight, right? Yeah. We can put the torso in here.

Right his torsos and here his hips right here. Yeah. We're gonna put one shoulder off to the side here. And the other shoulder off the side here. Okay, cool. Okay, we can see how this arm jumps back in his hand is here so we can stick that one back here.

Maybe throw an elbow in there, he deserves an elbow. This gets a little tricky, though, look at how his hands coming forward towards us, right? So what I would actually do is you could just draw the hand first. Go down to the elbow, come back up to the hand. First. Yeah, I like doing that sometimes, like, if I'm not sure of the length of things, I'll sometimes put the foot and then up to the knee and back to the joint or something like that.

Sometimes I'll start with with the hand of the foot, and then track it back. That's another way to do it. Yeah. Okay. Okay. And like I said, the other one, you know, you could come down here.

He's got he's got his knee down here. It comes down to the foot. Right? That's what's happening here. His knees come down here. It comes down to the foot.

Yep. And then you gotta draw the head. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, this head is kind of doing this lean thing, right? So if I want to draw the oval, his his head is actually kind of got this thing going on here is leaning in front. Listen, we're going to cover faces in a different in a few different courses and stuff I got so I don't want to get too hung up on the faces on this.

For this one. We're really looking at the skeleton. And in this particular one, looking at the line of action, yeah. Okay, let's keep on moving. We're going to come down. Now this one can go either way.

We can choose to have the line of action coming like this or the line of action coming like this. I think you should use the one coming up. So far foot I do too. I really like this foot. Being out there. It's not the worst thing.

I actually have seen people go like this when they're doing a line of action. And I don't think there's a rule saying, don't do it. You know, it depends on where the power is. For me the power lies in this direction, right? Yeah. So I would kind of go like this, but then you know what, if you want to plot it out and go down like that, you can do it too.

Right? Okay, so I'm just gonna do this. Then you want me to do the other one? That goes down? Yeah, sure. went up.

That was gonna stick. That's okay. Tons of mistakes. Listen, we're just sketching really light here. So don't don't stress about it. Now, where's the crotch on this character?

Her crotch is somewhere around here. Right? This so her hips would be in this area? Right? Yeah. Here's the top of her head.

And here's the crotch level. Right? So we've got crotch level here, top of the head here. We can kind of draw a line if we want. Yeah. Okay.

Okay. Then what do we do with that line? We cut it, we cut it, we cut it. We're gonna have four sections in that top of the torso, right? Yeah. Always, you know, especially with the torso with the leg we can get away with two sections because the knees halfway, but with a torso, we're cutting it in half, right?

So we've got the circle for the hip. In throw some underwear on this lady. We've got the torso circle, and the head circle. or oval. These aren't really circles. Yeah.

We can see how one shoulders up here on her and the other shoulders down here, right? Yep. Now, where are the hands? Ah, see, one's kind of out here. Yeah, kind of above her hips somewhere. So, you know, somewhere out here.

Right? That could just kind of connect to it. Yeah. Right. The other one is more in front of her torso here. This one is actually here.

So what it would be would be like, come down to the elbow and come back up to this hand. Yeah, that'll work. There's gonna be overlap. You know, we don't just stand there as little stickman where nothing overlaps each other with these guys. You know, there's, you know, this hand is in front of her body and stuff, right? Yeah.

Way more realistic. Yeah. Okay, so from here, down to here is her foot from here, roughly here, down to about here is her foot. So if I go, halfway is her knee. And then her foots going to come down like that. Yeah.

And the same thing, you know, her foots out here. So her foots going to be over here. Come this way. We can make just an ugly little foot kind of hold halfway, isn't he think I got that Cool. Okay, is it okay? Yep.

Let me see. That looks good. This one looks a little stiff as we draw it as a character and stuff I get Yeah, um, you know, what you could do is add more bend in this way, put the foot out here, if you want to, I mean, you can see just how I bent that and then push this one up this way. Some of the line of action is starting, just like when we did the proportions thing and we broke the rule of eight. Well, here, you can follow it strictly, you know, you can follow exactly what she's got. Or you can really start to bend it Do I mean, you start to bend and put the limbs down here, the foot out here, the head, you know, when you start to really push things and stuff, right?

Yeah. So you're looking at the essence with the what's, what the pose is trying to show you. Okay. Okay, and the last one, we've got a dancer with a broken spine, what's happening here, but actually this is pretty cool. Wow. Look it up bend to her right.

She really? She really has this amazing bend. Yeah. Okay, so we can draw kind of next to it. A nice bend, right? Yeah.

Okay. That bend. You can see how when I'm drawing the top and the bottom, I didn't draw them straight like this, right? I didn't draw them straight horizontal, they kind of match the flow of the bent. her crotch is here, her hip and everything, right? And then her head is here.

And then there's going to be a line here. So it'll be you know, like, partway here, partway here, partway here. You can see how it kind of goes off in this direction following the bent Right. Yeah. How's that work for you? Ah, pretty good.

Not bad. Yeah. Okay. You know, when we go up and down, it's kind of easy to find, you know, the cut marks and stuff I got, but it's Not that hard to find it imagine here's the top. Here's the bottom. Here's the middle.

Here's a cut. Here's a cut. Right? Yeah. Okay, so just try to realize that we're just taking this line and we're bending it around and stuff, right? Okay.

So, what's next? We got the hip. We doing the hip. Why don't we draw the hip off to the side here? Yep. Okay, we've got her torso.

Coming in here, her torso is going to come in here. Yeah. Okay, we've got the neck line that leads into the shoulders. So we've got a neck line that leads into the shoulders. Hmm, why don't we stick with the upper body for now. And where we're going to put her hand is off to the side here.

Her hand is off to the side here. So if I go straight up from the shoulder, I could put one hand over here and one hand over here and then just connect them out. Elbows halfway, right. Okay, Her face is going to be here. I guess I could draw that in. Okay, are you with the hint?

Okay. Okay. Now the feet, you know, it's going to jump straight down. We've got this one going straight down right down into the foot. So we can go straight down, down into the foot and put a knee about halfway. Yeah, look at it this way.

This is about halfway right? And the other one is going to come from behind and do the same type of thing. Knee about halfway, about halfway. You can see how this other leg is behind. So the knee, the foot is a little bit behind this foot. Right?

They're both on their tippy toes. Yeah. And so the knee is going to be just a little bit behind that one. You know, that's her Far leg, right? So you want to have that behind a little bit further away and stuff, right? Yeah.

Okay, so that's our gesture drawing. I know that this is getting tough, but I want you to really think about it when you were first drawing a stickman, and how it looked. And now look at what you can accomplish. It's tough and but it's kind of awesome, because now you could draw these articulated stick people of all different sizes and proportions and all this stuff. And moving. I think it's pretty awesome that you can now move them in a bunch of these sports poses or whatever pose you want, whether it's kneeling, or sitting or whatever, right.

Okay, so out of these figure units. You were starting with a stick, man. Yeah, learning the rule of eight. And do you have it? Yes, yeah, you better have that down. Then you learn how to what break the rule of eight Learn how to break the rule of eight.

And looking at all these line of actions. What kind of ending things now? Right? Yeah, we went from the rule to breaking the rule now bending, bending people and bending things, right? Okay, that's it for this unit. If it's tough, what do you do?

Practice? Yep, we wind it, play it again and practice. You know, listen, I don't these types of things were learned over years and stuff I got with a lot of artists, I don't expect you to get it in 20 minutes. That's not how it's gonna work. But the cool thing about these videos is that it doesn't do anything to just rewind it, you know, to play it again. If you have to play it again for the next two weeks, you know, once once a week or something like that, play it, play it every Monday or something, it doesn't really matter, right?

If you set aside a drawing day, like, Sunday's or whatever it is. That's what's awesome about these videos is you can play them over and over again because they're yours. Right? So Yeah. All right. Have fun.