How to Draw : One Shape for ANY Arm or Leg

1. How to Draw ; ONE SHAPE for Any Arm or Leg: Hey, how's it going today? We're going to go over how to draw the arms and legs in one simple shape. This is the shape that I use for literally all the characters that I do. I think it's absolutely the easiest and best way to draw any arm or leg. And it's really just one shape. It's different than the other stuff. So that's why I decided to put it on here as its own course. So who am I? I'm Enrique. I worked on movies like transformer three, the darker the moon, and I worked on the Smurfs movie. I worked throughout the t-shirt industry. I've worked in the video game industry. I've been all over and now I'm here. Let's go over what's in the course. What is inside of this? Number one, I'm going to teach you what not to do. Basically, I'm going to go over the basic stuff maybe you've heard before and I'm gonna say, don't do this. This is not what I'm teaching. So I'm gonna go over what not to do first. After that, I'm going to go with the one shape I was talking about. And I'm going to tell you how I use it. Then after that I'm going to go over one of the most important lessons ever and that is overlapping and how you use that. If you learn this, if you learn this concept of overlapping, all of your art will take a giant step up. This is a very big concept. I've taught it in several courses here, and it bears repeating. It's so huge and this is what makes it all work. Then after that, I'm going to demonstrate for you. And then that's pretty much it after that is the final video and I'm gonna give my final thoughts at the very end. This is it. The entire course is completely for beginners, and it is a very, very short course overall, but there's a lot of value in it and you're going to probably change the way you draw entirely if you've never heard this stuff before. Okay, let's jump into it and get started. 2. What not to do drawings arms legs: Okay, so let me go over what I don't want you to do. This is what I don't want you to do. That I'm gonna teach you a lot of people when they start drawing arms or legs. One of the very first thing they do is they adhere to the tube system, which I wouldn't do that right off the bat. For example, someone will go like, alright, so we have an arm here. I'm going to draw right out the gate tube connected to a ball is connected to another two. Very similar to those mannequins that we have for drawing that does sound stores. Those mannequins are not very good. But they'll start to something like that. Like they'll start literally making shapes like that for the arm or leg. I'm gonna go over here and I'm gonna circle this and come up with this is a no. Don't do that. Totally not what you do. Okay. So don't do that. What I want you to do instead is to think in curves. So the cool thing I would say, maybe like a bit, like saying this a whole lot, but it actually what to me, what it looks like. It looks more like a crazy strong you'll see those crazy straws and stores and stuff like that or they used to have a bendy straw. I want you to go like pull straight line, curve is sharply and then pull it out. First. That's a very first thing because you don't want to find the everything around it first. You want to find the center first. And you can pretty much do that shape anywhere for anything. It looks like a bendy straw. That's kind of the biggest thing I could think of. I want you to think about it in that way. First, because when you're thinking about all this stuff, you're thinking of the bone. Usually you're following something like the bone. And then afterward. After that, then you can start picking which side you want and start forming kind of more of like a little bit of a organic arm or tube-like structure. You can, it'll be similar but not the same. But never ever think in this what do you call it in this tube, circle, tube thing? Don't really think like that. Think instead like this. Think in this crazy straw. I don't know, I call it the crazy straw. You can call the V or something like that. I think of it all the time like that. If anything, I'll find a circle up here for the deltoid, pull-down here and then start filling it out. You can do it maybe deltoid over here, the arm there and it's gonna look like it's making a muscle up arm will go more into kind of what I want. But what I want you to do from this one lesson so far is I want you to avoid the tubes. And I want you to think in crazy straws or viz. Because you can do that in anything and any perspective and that's kinda what we're going to go through. Okay, so that's just first, write out the gate. Let's move on. And what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take you through what to do with this shape and how to kind of progressive. 3. One shape easy to draw: Okay, so where do we take this? Two? I kinda, I kinda touched on it a little bit in the last lesson. But in this one we're gonna go over where you take that crazy strong what you do with it. So again, I'm going to draw, thinking crazy straw form. I'm thinking of the center line when I do that usually or I can decide if it's gonna be centerline. But usually I usually almost always at the center line of thinking of the bone, but like maybe a circle at the top, usually for the shoulder. From here is where I start pulling in over here and giving it form, giving them volume. And then over here would be, let's just say this is the wrist down here. This is the shoulder up here. This is a wrist. You give it IV volume after. You give it. Kind of like a direction to go. And let's try that again. Let's say something like same shape. This time, let's say it's the thigh area. You can still put a circle here. You're going to pull over here in the upper leg. Let's say that's the upper leg. And then going to pull down for the calf, pulled down. And then right here is the ankle. And let's draw the foot over here just to make it really obvious and clear. But this form right here does everything, this crazy straw thing, does everything, everything, everything again, I like to think of it as a center. You can always think about its top or bottom. But let's add over here at the top of the arm here. Like as a shoulder down and down. Millions percent is like a skinnier arm. Over here. You have the hand over here. Alright. Alrighty. Same thing. Let's take the same form over here for grade here. And then let's say this arm's going up like us, like we did talk about in the other one, Let's say I was draw a circle for the shoulder. I don't know why I do that, but I think it's a safe bet to do it similar to anchor it to. Instead of drawing a circle here at the elbow, which I think is really pointless. I think the circle, the shoulders much more useful over here. And now we're gonna give it some volume to that upper arm. And then right here, draw like let's say the wrist is up here. There's gonna be like a fist, kind of like our muscle. But like I said, that's all you need to do for. That's how I normally take it. And this is only in the side view. What I'm gonna do is I'm going to go over how you use this in perspective, but this shape is all you need. Like literally hit this. I don't know what this bent V, this, like I said, this, That's all you really need and you can squish it, etc, for perspective, which we're going to go into right now. Let's push into it a little bit further and I'm going to talk a little bit about something that's really, really important to perspective. I'm going to talk about overlapping. I talked about this in the torso lesson. I'll go check that out later if you want. But I'm going to talk about it right now again because I think it's worth repeating if you haven't seen that in the lesson. So let's go into overlapping one of the most important things, like ever in drawing, Let's go over it. 4. Demo: Okay, so let me demonstrate some I already demonstrated, but let me demonstrate some kind of some more carefully. Let's do the demonstration. Gonna go over here. And I'm going to do with a lighter line, although normally I'd be using pencil for this, but I'm gonna do this so you can see it. Let's just go over here on this side. Let's do that. Let's suppose I'm gonna do an arm. Think of a circle up there, but I'm thinking of my peanut shape, like so. Peanut shape over here. And over this I'm thinking about my bowling ball going down to the wrist over here. And in my elbow capping off there. I am just going to put a place holder of a hand. I'm not really isn't a hand drawing thing, so don't worry about it. I'm drawing lightly. That's how I would draw in a now what I do is I go over it with things that I know. You don't have to go or musculature. This is not anatomy course, but you can go over it with the muscle. They're like muscle cap, right? It's a deltoid. Go over here. This is the tricep. Going to go back here at the elbow. It's hitting right there. Going over here to the muscles inside the arm. See it is hardly any change actually, a lot of this is pretty similar. Bottom underneath then the bicep right here. Right. We all know the bicep. Muscle dude arm. All I'm doing right here on a lot of these is just thickening the line. I'm saying It's like I'm hardly doing anything. You almost really don't even have to know anatomy. I do urge you to learn anatomy. I have an entire other courses for that. Go check and go find that on here on Skillshare, but you don't have to learn it. And then right here as the arm bends, there is these muscles right here called the brachioradialis, which is really just shown with that. Then you can put a line out here too for extensors and see how easy that is like that. So simple to build upon once you have that peanut with a bowling pin. So, so, so easy. All right. Let's go over here and do a leg. We're here for right here. Same thing. I'm gonna draw lightly. I don't know. I said, I guess pickle up here with a little bit of a little top. They're going into the body. Knee is gonna be over here. Then over here is gonna be that same bowling bulb. That bowling pin, sorry, upside down bowling pin on this one. What kind of the same direction? Then we've got the foot over here. Alright. I did my bowling pin upside down. Hopefully can see the way it is a bowling pin. And now I'm going to more or less just really what I'm doing is kinda just thickening lines right here. Going down, pretty much is falling almost the lines that I was thinking about. Me line in here for the knee. Then the shin. So the shin doesn't bulge out that much. It bolds out, bulges out a little bit, but not really. It's really mostly bony, very boney on the front and it's very fleshy on the back. Then this is just a foot, we're not going over foot right now. A whole other class for that as well, who their course for that, which you can find. Again, if you know anatomy there is, I believe a muscle over here. The anatomy, like I said, is really secondary. You don't really, what's going to matter is this, This is gonna matter first. Then anatomy. Anatomy definitely matters because like in sports and motion stuff like, you know, it's cooler to know exactly where your drawing. It makes things look cooler. And I do recommend you pretty much have to learn that as well. But in the beginning, you only need to know this. That's kind of my point. And that's kind of it really. If you understand that, let me know in the comments, I'm going to leave some questions in the comments just to make sure you understand what I'm talking about. But that's pretty much it. What I want you to do is to make it the next video. And I'm gonna give you pretty much my final thoughts on all of us. 5. Outro: I want to thank you so much. If you made it to this point, you've made it through the entire course and a congratulations, you are awesome, you are amazing. Thank you for sticking it out. And hopefully you learn something you've never known before. What I want you to do right now, like right now before anything else is review the course, post review, post some feedback. And what I'm gonna do is I'm going to look at that feedback and I will add a video if I have to, if there's something here that you wanted to see and you didn't, I will fill it in with a video at the request of you. So keep in contact. The other thing I want you to do is I want you to post your drawings. I'm going to reply and critique the drawings that you post. Post anything you want, anything related to this topic. Very simple poster project right there. So that's pretty much it. Practice makes perfect. So that's really important. If you really want to improve at this, don't just watch this. It's very similar to watching weightlifting and then doing weightlifting. You can watch all the weightlifting you want. You have to do it right in order to become big and strong or whatever. This is the same thing. You watch the lesson, you hopefully applied some of it and I want you to apply it and show me what you did. And then that's really the way it's going to stick with you. And that's how you're going to grow out of your bubble and become a better artist than you ever been. Thank you so much and check out my other courses as well. Have a backlog of a bunch of stuff. And if you can't find it, let me know and I'll create a course that you want. Thank you so much.