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Translation from Chicken Scratch to English :

1) Hello and welcome to my Running Tutorial where I'll be teaching you how to draw this young woman running in different views and positions.

2) First of all, I'd like to introduce you to my "stick man method" where, as you can see, I've drawn the pose using lines as the major part of the legs, arms, and torso and circles as the joints and the head, as well as the feet, hands and (since it is a woman) the breasts.

3) When using this method, I always start with the head, then the torso, followed by the legs and finally the arms, but I don't want to limit you to one strict way of using this method. Try different ways of drawing it. You can even use boxes or extra circles if you feel like that helps you. But always remember to to keep the stick man very lightly draw, because you'll erase that part later.

4) Now the fun starts. Draw the stick man in the pose you want, adding a little extra oval on the limb closest to you. This reminds you which arm is in what position. Then continue to draw a rough draft of your person. You should wait until later to add details. Remember! You still have to erase the stick man lines once you finish the contour lines (outlines). I've drawn to examples here, one with the dominant (closer) leg in the back and one with it in the front, as with the arms. The examples also show you how I draw a face in profile view (roughly).

5) Here is where it gets a little tougher, because this is where overlapping comes into play for a 3-Dimensional effect. The first example here is about-face full view. Women are naturally constructed with their knees pointed inward. Males are the exact opposite.

6) You should know that the human body is made entirely of cylinders. This is why the spandex short I drew on the model is helpful. Do you see the ends of the shorts? And how they are curved in opposite ways? This is an optical illusion that creates a 3D effect that the left leg is farther in front whereas the right leg is farther in the back.

7) Here we have a few close-ups of some different clothes that women could run in. For skirts, since it's more skin tight, it shows more of the woman's figure.

8) As for more dress-like apparel, it doesn't show much of the woman's figure, but more of the folds in the fabric.

9) For sprinting, people tend to clench their fists, so here are a few examples of hands, also using the stick man method.

10) And finally, if your woman (or man) has no shoes on, here are some examples of how I draw feet. Once again, the stick man method comes in as a huge help.

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