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Force: Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators
Look at how the clothes wrap around the model’s body in this drawing by Mike Roth. The curve of the shirt and that of her pants tell us how her body moves in space. See how the pants lock into a wrinkle because of the downward force of the knee. He uses straight to curve in the sleeves and in the right leg. The leg has a curve to multiple straights. In time, you want to be able to simplify the confusion of clothing. The ideas you draw from the clothing need to support the idea of the pose. You must learn to draw what the idea of the pose needs and delete what hinders it to keep the drawings animated. Here are more efficient and clearer drawings: