Okay, guys, we're back. And this is gonna be a bit of a different class and what we've been doing so far. Yeah, you can laugh now because the pressure is gonna be on you in a second here. Oh, no. Okay, listen, this is, this is where I'm gonna hand it over to my kid and I'm handing it over to you guys a little bit. I want you to have a blank piece of paper in front of you.

Which I hope you have any Listen, anytime we start this course. Really, you got to have paper sitting in front of you paper and a pencil right. There you go. Okay, on your piece of paper in front of you. This is what I want you to draw. Draw me a stick man.

A stick man. A stick man. Let's see it. Yeah, there you go. Start with with the head. The legs.

Oh, interesting technique on the, on the arms there. Yeah, one straight line. Okay, I'll show you how I used to draw them in school and stuff like that right? Um, let's see if I zoom in here just a little bit. Ah, usually the head right down into the body, the legs and the arms. sound about right.

And this is usually because we're playing hangman. In the in the classroom. Usually, it's like 123456 and then the guy's dead. Okay, that is our normal stick man. And I get it. That's the stick man that I've been drawing since grade one or whatever.

And that's what most stick men do. But there's a problem with the stickman. Okay, like, I mean, like, Okay, he's a happy dude and all But like he, he's not gonna do what we want him to do. And that's because of the word articulation. I know having Joey Have you ever heard that word before? Yes.

Do you know what it means? Yes. Oh, cool. What does it mean? Juliet's and move? Like bending?

Yeah. Twisting. Okay, I'm gonna stop you before you go too far off here. But yeah, basically movable joints right points of articulation that you can move these these points. Okay. Um, you might hear it or see it when you talk about certain toys.

Action Figures. action figures will often be advertising say six points of articulation 22 points of articulation 500. No, that's too much. But really, if you get some really good action figures, they're gonna have really tons of points to articulate Usually, the neck. What else? shoulders, shoulders, hips, hips, elbows, elbows, elbows, knees, ankles, and wrists, wrists, sometimes even like, like torso like ribcage pivot or something like that.

Right. And so what I think we just named off about 10 or something. Yeah, maybe 10 to 12 that's a pretty good figure and stuff, right? Some of them actually will have fingers that you can move on some some larger figures and stuff like that. Right? Okay, so those are points of articulation, right?

Um, and we're going to give our stick figure some points of articulation because right now, he can kind of maybe I guess he could move this arm up and down, right? Like it can kind of go up and down. You know, this one could kind of go up and down and maybe these legs could kind of move, but he's got no elbows. Got no knees, no neck. Yeah, he's got a lot of problems. Got no hip or anything like that.

Right. So That's what we're going to do, we're going to draw a stick figure with, that's more useful for what we're learning when we try to draw people. And there's a rule that we can follow in this that will really help us tons. And listen, this is going to be a little tough. But if you get this one down, it'll really help you moving forward for all what's coming next and stuff it with any type of characters or figures you want to draw. If you get some of these basics down.

It'll really help. Okay, so this is what we're going to call oops, edit. This is what we're going to call the rule of eight. Cool. Okay, so we're moving with the rule of eight and I'm going to explain why this is. I want you on your piece of paper to draw on Straight line up and down.

Don't draw it or anything, just draw it kind of nice, right? Just as a sketch, put in a little notch at the bottom and a little notch at the top. There we go. And so listen, I'm giving you a, when I pause and take a break, I'm hoping you're drawing, right? I'm giving you enough time that you can kind of do it. If it's not enough time you put me on pause.

Okay, so we've got this, this notch at the top, not to the bottom in the straight line connecting them right. Now what I want you to do is kind of cut it in half and put a little notch about halfway. Okay, so that's about halfway there, right? Put it at the halfway mark. Cut it in half, right. Okay.

And then from the top to that middle point, I want you to try to cut that one in half. And from the middle to the bottom, cut that in half, too. Okay, how many sections Do we have so far? For four, that's right. We got four. So we're having They're right.

I said this is a rule of eight. So we're going to keep cutting, right? Um, for this top section, I want you to cut it in half. For this next section, cut it in half. The next section, cut it in half and the next section, cut it in half. Good stuff, okay.

It's not always going to be perfect, but as much as possible, try to make them so they're all the same size, right? Because we're, if we're cutting things in half, they gotta look kinda like they're all equal, right? Okay, now, I want you to take your finger and kind of touched them all and go 1-234-567-8123 45678 Yeah, you got eight. Yeah, there's some hesitation there right. Listen, if you don't have eight, do it again. Start from the beginning.

Draw that line, cut it at the top or at the bottom at the top, cut it in. In the middle of that in the middle, cut that in the middle, cut, cut, cut, cut, and you listen, you got to end up with eight. Okay, this is where we're starting, we're starting with eight. Okay? So don't worry if it takes you a little bit of time. It's okay.

Start with just that line. Start with the line up and down the bottom the top, cut it in half, you know what I used to cut it in half, I kind of spread my fingers, one to the top and one to the bottom, and slide them together. And they usually match up around the middle. Okay, so that's, that's a little technique you can use. However you want to cut it. Listen, if you actually have a ruler sitting there, you could measure it out.

You know, if you want to measure it, like 10 centimeters or five inches or whatever it is. And then half a 10 centimeters is five centimeters. Yeah, there was hesitation there. It's free. Yeah. You're on a break from school right now.

Christmas break, right. Okay, so anyways, we want to cut it in half. Put the top half the bottom half, and then go through and put each section. One more time. Okay, so by now you should be, I'm hoping that you've done it a few times on the paper. Listen, if it takes two times to get it, who if it takes 10 times to get it?

Who doesn't really matter? Just make sure that you can do this cut. Okay, that you could cut it into eight equal sections, because we need that going forward. Okay, so Joey, you got it. You got eight. Yeah.

Yeah. You're sounding so confident. Yes. Okay. This is what we're going to do. This top section, we're going to put an ovoid an oval.

That's right. Okay, so we can even number these, you know, we're number one, number two, number three, number four, number five, number six, number seven, number eight. I kind of like that. makes things easier. You know, number one starts from the top right. And number one is going to have an ovoid.

Yep. Cool. Number four is going to have a circle a circle, a circle. Yeah, make it a normal round circle, right? Not a circle, but close enough. Okay.

Now this is where it's gonna get a little bit a little bit funky, but not too too bad. Number two and three are going to have a kind of stretched out oval going on. Okay. So, a bigger oval, right, you know, it's gonna be bigger than the top one a little bit, right? Because it's kind of stretched out, right? Yeah.

And it's bigger. Right? It's, it's covering two spots. Right? Okay, so we're good. And like I said, at any point, you can pause it, and, you know, make sure you're caught up in everything right.

Okay, now This is where it gets a little funny. This top one is going to be the head. And the head doesn't quite come down into what this next section is going to be, we needed a little bit of room for the neck here, right? So maybe about halfway down or third the way down or something, you're going to draw this kind of line across here. And at the end of this line, you're going to put a circle and a circle. Okay.

So let's do that. Again. If I want to zoom in to help it make sense for you a little bit, right? Here's the line for the the top and the bottom of the head. Here is the line, that number two section in here. And about one quarter, one third of the way down, you're just going to draw a line across and put a circle on either side.

And then this will come down this big oval still sitting there, right. Okay, how big do the circles need to be? Well, that's a good question. They can come all the way down to this line. If you want them to You don't want them too small. Don't want them too big somewhere around there.

Okay. Good question. I like that. Yeah, actually, you know what joy, feel free to ask me any question that if you're thinking you're not too sure on, you know, like, just go ahead and ask. Now something I can see Joey doing here that I'm kind of not wanting is that those circles are kind of floating off to the side. I want them attached to this oval, I want them next to this.

They're going to be, you know, I don't want them to kind of floating out here way off or anything like that. There you go. Much better. Much better. That's what I want. On the same blank.

Yeah, trying to make them equal right now you need to like draw a line. Okay, do whatever it takes to kind of make them about the same size. That's the same size. Yep, good stuff. Okay, so let's back out a little bit. We've got section one, section two and three, sections two and three.

These are torso. I don't know if you ever heard that before, but basically the chest in the stomach, right? Okay. And section four is going to be the hips. Now some people got bigger hips, some people have smaller hips, depending how you want to draw it and stuff like that. And we'll talk about that later when we get into changing proportions, right?

But I want to put some clothing on this this person, so I'm going to put some kind of like Superman undies on him or something like that. Just some nice little bikini things. bikini, yeah, whatever. Okay, so this section is the hip, arm, or the crotch line here would it however we want to call it? Okay. We can see this would be the chin because it's the bottom of the head, right?

This is the top of the head here. Okay. But we're missing something. legs, lakes, right. legs and arms. Which you want to do first?

Arms because then it arms Arms are easy. Do you see where our little crotch line is here, right? Right, starting from that line below the shoulder, we're going to draw a circle. So we're going to draw down from the shoulder and draw a circle starting at that line. Good. And actually, you can kind of connect them if you want.

Just drop that down. Okay, that works. And you know what we're kind of gonna do the same thing with the legs here, you know from from this kind of midpoint in the hips. We don't have a too far and too far it somewhere around this. We're going to in the hit, we're going to drop down a line and have a little circle down at the bottom too. Okay, so imagine this line down here, the circle goes below it circle goes below it.

It comes from the size of your little triangle almost and down. Not bad. Okay. We can see that is starting to look semi human now. Right? not totally but not bad.

I think it's looking okay. I think it's, it's doing okay, we've got a little bit it's looking more human that our previous our first stick figure, right. But we're still missing some things on here that are pretty important. And remember when we talked about points of articulation? This one's pretty good because we've got these shoulders here. That's what these are, right?

These are shoulders and of course, you know, if I want to move them, this shoulder would come up in this arm would come out and it would kind of be able to move around this way and stuff, right. But there's still some points of articulation that we're missing here. Some important ones that will make this more human like, right, Joey, do you know what they are? elbows, knees, elbows and knees. Those are, we need them because otherwise we get that weird. walking this way that the the arm, you know, the arm has no real movement, it just kind of comes down or something like that, right?

Like it doesn't have it doesn't look that human right. Yeah. So here's what we do. Look from this crotch line down to this line and halfway remember this little halfway mark? Yeah, we're going to put a knee in there and a knee on that side. So we, if you want to, you can come from the bottom and go one, two, and that's the line and you put the knee or you can count from, you know, the underwear bottom here and go one, two, and either way, you're going to get at that bottom of this six category, right?

Okay. And, you know, with the arms, it's quite similar. If you want, you can, you can eyeball it if you want. Just put an elbow right in the middle where you figure from the shoulder to the wrist. You can put the elbow there, or you can kind of look this is actually the belly button. Right above the hip, and below this rib cage kind of area.

This is what I'm teaching here. I'm sneaky. I'm, I'm throwing in a skeleton here, right? Um, is this belly button and on that belly button line is going to be the elbows. Okay, uh huh. So not bad.

I think we're doing okay for the skeleton, but I think I'd like to do it one more time for us. Okay. So I want you to draw a line up and down. doesn't have to be perfect. It's okay. Put a notch at the top and not to the bottom.

Trying to find the middle somewhere. So okay, you know, sometimes you just eyeball it right. And then cut the top half in half. Cut the bottom half in half and then cut each of those four sections in half again. So before you go on, you just kind of take a quick look and count through those sections and make sure that you have that you have eight sections right? If you don't, you messed up.

Okay, in the top section, you're gonna put an oval. Perfect. In the next two sections, you're also going to put a bigger oval. In the next section, it's going to be more of a circle. Good. Okay.

Um, and if you remember in section number two from the top, you can kind of put a line somewhere there, below that the head below the chin, and then put two circles off to the side. They're kind of attached to your big oval there. Right? Make them big enough. This person does not have very big shoulders. That's okay.

Straight down from Those that are round the crotch line, you're going to put in two more circles and draw a straight line to each of them from the shoulder. Good enough. And if you want to right at this time, you can add in the elbow to about halfway, right? Yeah. Yep, somewhere around there. Okay.

Why don't we throw some underwear on this guy? Or lady or lady? Yeah, yeah, we're I haven't really said whether it's a boy or girl. Doesn't matter. They're getting underwear, right? Yeah.

Yep. Uh, why don't we throw some little booties down to the bottom there below that line, or on that line or something? If you want, that's okay. Then draw a straight line from the hip all the way down. You like using that ruler? Hmm.

You don't have to use a ruler but if you enjoy it, go ahead, right. Um, now the knee line. Usually I like to draw it on that line or just above it. That's okay. Yep, that'll be okay. And there's the nice Okay, guys, listen.

Uh, Joe is doing a good job here, she's got it down. I'm hoping you do too, if you don't take some time now, okay? Go through this unit a couple times, because it's going to help you as you go into the next units and stuff. And honestly, I know it's tough because you're shifting from drawing the same stick man that you've been drawing since grade one. And you're kind of like, you know, shifting up and changing a lot of things. But if you look at this stick person, man or woman, man or woman, you can see that this type of figure is going to be way more helpful for you, especially in the next unit, when we're going to learn to play with the proportions and then play with posing and stuff, okay?

So don't go on to the next unit until you could draw this by yourself using the rule of eight. So that's my rule. Going forward, you got to have the rule of eight down. Okay? So go ahead and go on to that that next unit but only if you have the rule of eight. Good luck, guys.