Figure Drawing: Anatomy and Movement

The objective of this piece was to capture the movement of the actor. This was quite difficult to do at the start since the model was continuously moving and capturing the motion in ‘real time’ is impossible. Capturing each major key movement proved to be better rather than doing a very rough sketch of each movement. The first set shows a very strong, exaggerated walk. The second shows a jump upwards and the last shows the first few stages to doing a backflip.

Although the physical anatomy of the model is out of place in some places, the purpose of this task was to capture the motion. This meant showing in very few sketches what the actor is doing. All 3 sets show this as we can understand the motion applied. The distribution of the weighting for each of the sets is shown greatly as well.

The angle on each of the limbs also helps exaggerate the motion of the model. One personal improvement that I could suggest is to add more detail to the limbs. More details such as curved lines, softer edges, casting shadows and correct proportion. Proportion being the main element that should be perfected, as well as the figures anatomy.