3 Easy Steps to Balanced Poses
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- čas přidán 5. 04. 2022
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Balance is so important to taking your figure drawings to a high standard, but explanations about how to tackle it are often confusing. 'Find the centre of gravity' is not as easy as it sounds. I hope this video will help you master this often overlooked skill!
What is really cool is that as you are better and finding the line of gravity, your gesture drawing will improve, because you will be better able to push things to each side of that line, creating interesting angles and relationships between the forms.
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“It would be really awful to do all the maths.” 😂
What about the chopping the person up part?
I guess that’s where British humor comes in.
Definitely kidding - I love maths
Kenzo, this was EXCELLENT! Very illustrative of the importance of how balance or the lack there of, is vital to a compelling figure drawing. Really good stuff. Cheers
Thank you for all your support Jeff!
Helpful tip, now I know the answer to "something don't look quite right". Thanks Kenzo!
So very helpful! Now I’m going back to every figure and running a vertical line…..
Jesus christ!!! Best artists've got the best advices!! I didnt understand that video a long time ago... and now I do! It's so interestinggg
Excellent tips on finding balance- love your simplifying of ideas!
This explained everything perfectly. I just couldn't seem to find a source that really told me what the center of balance was or how to make a balanced figure. I drew a gesture today and realised it was extremely unbalanced and that's what pushed me to finally learn something about the topic. I know I''ll have to rewatch this video from time totime though
Thank you! All your 'reinforcing' videos are terrific !
Thanks Lynda!
Really good explanation as usual. I can see how understanding balance would be essential when drawing from imagination. But even when drawing from life or a reference photo, knowing this could act as a check on the natural tendency to straighten the figure.
Simply brilliant Kenzo! Thank you. I’m spreading the word.
Awesome, thank you Rachel!
I just want to say that I've stumbled onto your videos some weeks ago and I am finding them incredibly useful. I really love your explanations, they are very clear and fun and easy to follow. Even though I have been drawing very intensely for years I still felt my basics were lacking, and I was a bit disoriented about how to improve things like gesture and construction of the body, and I was feeling overwhelmed with all the existing information. Following your advice so far has been very clarifying. I think I'm going to do the Fresh Eyes challenge and see how it goes. Thank yoi so much for all your work, I reallt, really appreciate it!
Thanks for this video
Super useful! I love little tricks like this, simple proportions and other rules of thumb that help you quickly check your work. :)
Glad it was helpful Irma!
Great and useful video as always, many thanks from all artists of the world. Recently I watched some Machael Matessi's videos about Center of Gravity, he says that for men and women it s different. For men - usually, it s somewhere in the chest, whereas for most women - in the pelvis area. That's why some poses can be achieved only by men, and some only by women. Love ur Reference library!
Thank you 💖
Great video and great teacher!
Oh gosh, thank you so much for this 💖 the timing is amazing as I was thinking about how the gravity line works just yesterday ~
Thank you Vivi!
Good information
super helpful , thank you :)
I've tried several beginner courses now but for me yours made the most sense as you explain basically everything and why you do it- Now I just have to find a video where we get instructions for seeing tilts and twists, as I struggle with that a lot. Not even getting it on paper, just seeing what is going on is ridiculously hard. So far I almost always draw the wrong rotation first and can't say where the eye level even is.Oh well, time to practice more
When painting a figure, the center of gravity is very important. First of all, the person must appear to be standing, and then, the center of gravity can be used to create a sense of movement.
mind blowing
Many thanks for this clear-cut concise explanation Kenzo. I am appreciative of all the help you are giving.
Thank you Tessa!
I hope Maggie is doing good. :) But I will probably try your stuff in 1,5 month once I finish school and I get more time.
I funny I did a drawing and tried to do a vertical line for the weight but I didn't seen this video yet hehehe.
Well it useful perso I was useing the 50% 50% technique and just averaging the weight of body parth tho to be fair useing my technique I kinda got the skiny boy at 2:00 wrong... I underestimated the weight of the head it felt more on the right to me because of how much mass was on that side But may be I also forgot to take into account the distance of the weight... That hand an leg does look much farder than the weight on the right... probably have a big impact on carrying the gravity to the left.
Great video!
oh thanks man! next video is about weight - will chat to you about it on Sunday hopefully :)
Ello from the Philippines!
'I think it would be really awful to have to do any math'. Certainly for a Life Drawing - ghastly.
“Not to worried about chopping people up, more worried about haveing to do math!”
Seriously tho, super helpful!!
I should have listened to the whole thing. Now what do I do with all these body parts?
Hay, Kenzo thanks a lot! You collected, structured, and laid out in one video an explanation of everything that worried me. How do you do it?=)
Thanks Karina!!
Sorry if this seems abit of a funny question but is there a good order to watch your catalogue leo and break down and apply all these amazing lessons in order to appy them to our own learning curve.
Thanks as always .
Hey yeah there is - that is what the pdf skills guide is for that I mentioned at the end and linked in description. Although this reminds me I need to add this tutorial to that!
@@lovelifedrawing amazing , thank you.
Great explanation. However, as an engineer, I like math so could you do a video showing how to calculate the cog? Just kidding!
2:40
i think action line works better
I didnt understand this at all 😂 oh well my brain is just different I guess lol
Yeah ok watev but, if you cannot learn to love math and understand the basics of phi, grace and fine the tuning of the universe, you will never be able to capture beauty, I like to work within the archetype of a grid similar to that of the 2d representation of the DNA double helix,, Its amazing what can unfold from basic math. Practice making nice arch's, balance lies in the math of the arc, you can see it if you look for it.
good math joke