Draw Gesture with O̲N̲E̲ shape: NEVER draw ArMs or LeGs- EVAR! [also never ever use bean shape] 

Hey. please share this video with every artits you know. Don't make me regret quitting my industry job- you punk

struggling artist: nobody: Ethan Becker: iMaGiNE bEiNg sMaRt !

Thanks for quitting your job and becoming poor like the rest of us. It makes you more relateable.

This dude: "You're so stupid you can't even see it, you're stupid, stupidhead" Audience: *Yes master*

Rule number one: if it exist someone probably knows how to draw it more efficiently than you, find that person and learn.

SIR YOU‘RE RUINING EVERYTHING I LEARNED AND TAKING IT APART TO MAKE ME BETTER I DON‘T KNOW IF I SHOULD SAY THANK YOU OR IF I SHOULD CRY

"We're artists. We don't know how to read." is such a mood honestly. Loved the vid.

When he just kept the sillouete and changed the poses into the other direction my brain melted.

Ethan I am not joking when you LITERALLY SAVED MY LIFE WITH THIS VIDEO. Over a DECADE I have struggled to understand poses and formulate my own, no matter how many Proko videos, gesture studies or advice I've received from friends regarding lines of action and etc, I COULD NOT understand how to make my own poses, or at least draw the ones from my head. The concepts you explained in this video blew my MIND. After watching, I went through some Disney videos and made the shape, and to my amazement, you weren't bullshitting and this wasn't some thing that only wrinkle-brained artists could understand. I made 2-4 new poses for each shape, including twisting and bending the body in dynamic angles - Holy DOGSHIT! Suddenly seeing the body basically broken down into this stupid pentagonal shape that I could make into whatever angle I wanted made everything click. It's like each thing I learned previously was a puzzle piece in my head, but there weren't enough pieces to finish the puzzle - this video was the missing piece. I'm so glad that you're proving this content for free, for all of us. Thank the LORD for Ethan.

*Follows Ethan's excellent information.... ...Adds more curves*

I cried this was so simple. I was so happy. No one has ever explained it so well. In all my years of living and multiple figure/ anatomy videos that little teen me would bend over backwards to try and understand. NONE OF THEM!! And I mean NONE of them clicked as well as this one.

"They're not beans" A few minutes later "Let's take these beans"

"We don't know how to read" Finally, someone who gets it.

“It’s gonna be a little bit more difficult, for your little stupid eyes” -the guy with a cute eyes

“Step 1: Reference artits”

"Try imagine if you were smart" Thank you Ethan, this has changed my life. After decades of being dumb, now I can do what the pros do by imagining what I would do if I were smart.

I was extremely skeptical of this technique when I first saw this, but now I'm a month and a half in animation school and I use this 95% of the time when I draw people.

Everyone in the comments skimming over the fact that Ethan quit his anim job to do RU-vid... Ethan.. that's amazing! Congratulations

I've been reading and studying drawing books and tutorials for decades. I think this is the most mind-blowing drawing tip (or lesson) I've ever came across.

What I've learned from this: It's definitely possible to re-angle bodies using the same torso shape What I definitely didn't learn from this: How to do that

I love that Ethan is starting to post more

"Never draw the bean shape!" >>> proceeds to draw the robobean

I've learned people in the animation industry really are brutal... I appreciate ethan for being direct but funny and a good teacher

I feel like I'm not far enough into things to fully understand and utilize this but this is the most fun I've had being stupid.

I'm literally shaking rn this is some groundbreaking shit for me THIS ISN"T REAL ITS NOT POSSIBLE ONE FUGING SHAPE CAN BE ALL THAT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I m a sucker for Ethan's anatomy and storytelling videos

i really wish your videos existed when i was a kid because I was following all kinds of tutorals to learn how to draw anatomy and drawing in general and i never improved. I never practiced the right way because following tutorials is not the way to practice, to practice you have to study, you have to find short cuts... I am now improving at art THNAKS TO all your videos like holy shit,, I have been drawing since 6 and never improved but ever since I've found your channel I have been improving art within 2 weeks like omg tyty

Hey, Ethan, I just want to say that I appreciate you as a teacher and admire your role in a ComeTrue 2020 movie!

"arms and legs are just tubes" I...i thought you said they were triangles...

Ethan is like the only RU-vid artist who will continuously and consistently insult the living sh*t out of his viewers...and we thank him for it.

I am so mad and I also had my brain blown clean out of my skull that this works. I had been so close on a similar base form and the answer was just. right there in front of me all this time. Thank you, and congrats on taking work on your channel full time! Your videos have been enormously insightful and helpful and I hope that it works out.

The way he flipped the dude blew my mind🤯

I was wondering why there are so many spelling errors then realised artists can't actually read so I wouldn't know.

I would have paid so much more attention in class if my teacher said I had infant crayon brain and asked me to imagine if I could think, that's normally what I told myself. Feels better when someone else says it.

Not only did this guy quit a professional job for us, he is also really freaking funny and I adore his editing style. I'm thrilled to learn more, definitely subbing!

I’ve been rewatching this video constantly since it came out. It never fails to help me

"Try to imagine if you were smart." Thank you Ethan. I get it now. I should be able to get a job any day with this newfound intelligence. My IQ doubled.

He left his job for us. He’s an angel that fell on earth to pass on the knowledge he possesses to us. All hail Ethan Becker.

This is literally ground breaking for me!!! I’ve been down the over complicated path before with my art journey and I’ve attempted to simplify stuff but THIS was by far the most valuable video I have EVER seen AND put into action I sincerely THANK YOU

Thanks for making the understanding of anatomy super simple. Getting straight to the point. No fluff or bs...greatly appreciate it.

HAHA ETHAN YOU'RE LATE I ALREADY STARTED DRAWING WITH A BIG DECISIVE SHAPE YOU THINK I WASN'T GONNA NOTICE THAT YOU SAID "the favorite sided triangle is the most SIMPLE shape..." huh im not a stupid baby anymore!!!!!

That's probably the best tips I'll ever get in my entire life "Just imagine if you're smart"

Very grateful for ethans videos honestly. He makes a lot of things easier. I was in the slumps days ago, I haven't been drawing for months due to the number of tasks I have for school, and when I finally had the time to, it just didn't look right. I had studied anatomy before, but I had come to forget what they were. It was a dumb mistake I did. It's better to memorise a form through muscle memory first. Because formal knowledge such as anatomy only stays in the brain, it is only potential knowledge, but if unused for months you start to forget. Muscle memory on the other hand, I have found, stays. I thank this channel. Made me hopeful that I could become better than I was before :D

honestly i had to sub, i was only watching this for some anatomy lessons, but this genually get me interacted and also enspired/learning more than when i got here, keep up the good work

"Are you happy June?" *sniffing noises* Jokes aside, this tutorial is such a life saver, it saves so much time and it is quite efficient.

i got an ad for newborn baby moisturizer right after he called me a little infant baby...they know...

Although I’ve been drawing for roughly a decade now, I’ve never mastered the art of poses. This was very entertaining, useful, and informative! Thanks, man! I’ll be sure to remember these steps next time I draw something, it worked wonders!

In hindsight a lot of my more recent drawings use this basic body shape technique and thats so cool! And the using a single body shape to make multiple poses just blew my mind, I am so excited to try that out

Seems like I've been diagnosed with a crayon brain, time to get *S M O R T*

"try to imagine if you were.. smart.." That one hit different.

Thank you so much !! This has become the key that unlocked all the info i gathered from tutorials and practices i have done. Keep keeping it simple

Ethan always manages to push me off the edge and keeps reminding me how close minded my liddol artist sponge brain is. I've been painting realism and hyper realism for like 10 years now and I still have absolutely no fkn idea how to do sketches, characters or even proper poses. But you my bro? BOOM mind blown. It's so easy but yet so hard to even come up with it.

I just can’t help but look at his eyes when he calls us stupid or baby brain, he’s like an artistic Eren Jaeger if he didn’t live in AoT.

FINALLY IVE BEEN WAITING FOR SOMETHIN LIKE THIS, POSING HAS BEEEN A PAIN IN MY ASS FOR YEARS AND ITS THE ONLY REASON I CANT ANIMATE

So sad that RU-vid removed the community caption contributions :( Ethan's videos deserve to be seen worldwide and I would 100% love to be part of it

This is the most aggressively helpful video I've watched

"trashbag person doesn't exist, he can't hurt you." Trashbag person:

“If you were SMART” Okay ouch that one hurt

I praise this, we stan for Ethan making more videos, and I admire you and your work too too much

Thank you very much! I will definitely be trying it out in my next quick figure drawing session. I used to draw out ribcage and pelvic region ass 2 separate boxes to get the sense of the perspective, but your way speeds it up immensely! Also, look forward to combining it with your triangle and lemon-half technique.

Maths Class same time but Ethan's the only teacher i need

Ignore me setting my reminder at 2:32 AM Edit: Wow, you quit your career for us babies??? Ethan we appreciate this so much

Dude, you blew my mind up. THANK YOU SO MUCH!! Ive been feeling miserable about my art lately, but your video gave me the "art shock", the inspiration (if that makes sense) to draw again and feeling happy about it.

whoaa i am actually mind blown! This is crazy lol. Thanks for the great content :D

Ethan: arms and legs are just tubes, we don't need those Me, a Lord of the Rings fan, with ork voice: what about their legs? they don't need those

ethan you can't just rewire me into not using the bean shape i've been using all my life

Of all your videos, this might be your best one yet.

Ethan I've been binging your videos today and I feel like I learned more today than the last 6 months

I'm taking figure classes and this honestly has cleared up soooo much that my professor was talking about! You are my favorite art teacher lol

This is literally THE most useful on drawing bodies I have ever seen in my life. I’m using this everywhere from now on

This really helped me a lot to improve figure drawings . Thanks ETHAN 😊❤️🔥

this punk solved every problem I ever had. Thank you.

“We are not rockets”

These shapes are for understanding shape language and are used for "outside-in" anatomy studies (including bean), different artists have different ways of simplifying anatomy, to show gesture and motion. What Ethan explains here is good for animators, it doesn't mean that you shouldn't have understanding of bones and muscle groups. Sometimes we see artists simplify anatomy and we think that it's easy, cause it's just a simple shapes, right? No! You don't start your studies with final result, especially when you are a beginner. You must be aware of bones, because of the landmark points, you must be aware of origins and insertions of the muscles and how muscles change shape. Otherwise you are going to draw same characters over and over again and maybe you will even be avoiding to draw characters topless, or muscular. All I want to say is that foundation is important, that's what old masters used to do, I recommend to look up "Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters" they had same methods of simplifying shapes but they were aware of how bones and muscles work.

That a first video I watched from this chanel. You made my day ahah Thank you a lot!

i used to do this at one point, but then, because of the multiple possibilities i can draw poses i end up unable to decide what i really wanted to draw XD it starts with one thing and end up looking something else due to suddenly seeing a more appealing angle by going wild with the poses. sometimes i end up with multiple drawings because of it. not that it's a bad thing, but it's like shopping in the internet that you end up buying stuff that you didn't know you wanted but yeah it's a fun practice to exercise one's creativty

"we're not rockets"

Ethan literally made drawing so much easier and funner for me. Thanks, bro. You're an baby eye-opener.

Bro this may be one of the most important videos I've found on practicing figures and training your eye. I've had a similar concept but it was incomplete because I didn't know what I know now. Thank you thank you thank you 😊

I really am Happy i found your channel I feel like you made things more clear

I like to call the shape (as of exactly the moment I'm writing this) the "punching bag" or cushion, it's more angular but still has a bit of fluidity, essentially a middle ground between the indecisive curving of the " B E A N " and the boring box of the rectangle/hourglass

Imma be like 6 hours late but it's ok

I like the way you talk to your students. Subbed in the first 10 seconds.

Great video man. I usually won't comment under videos but with this one, I had to. Your videos are really fun and teaching. 👍

Last night I dreamed I was not stupid and I could draw like the pros but then I woke up and remembered I still have a tiny infant brain that won't even learn from his own dreams.

STAN PROKOPENKO WOULD NEVER LEAD ME ASTRAY I'M LITERALLY SHAKING AND CRYING RN

This blew my mind! thank you Ethan!

June is such a cool doggo and what you said about deciseiveness is really helping my sketches look cleaner

Ethan: "Are you happy, June?" June: *_S̵̨̺̦̯̤͔̮͜͜͝Ṇ̷̦̞͎͈̳̳̦̯͔̀̌̀̾͗́̎̓̀̄̃́͘Ȋ̷͎̪̻f̸̢̯̺̪̺͇̹͕̆̌̅̋̽͊͊̄̄̾̕͘f̸̲̼̺͔̬̫̘͚̖̝̱͈͓̙̄̔̎͒̕̚ͅs̴̡̢̟͓̯̣̦̤̳̫̿̅̈́̈́̽ͅͅn̴̡̻̺̥̠͚͚̼̫̳͍̫͖͕̻̉̇̀̌͠͠ĭ̴̢̢͎̭̲̤̽́̊̃́̇̂̔͆͑̈́̚͝F̶̡̤̰̠̏̄͋̀́̆̃̓̃̓͂̂̏́s̵̰̺̱̹͇͈̞̘̥̹̦̮̿͋͂̑̚ͅN̶̻̮̐i̷̞͍̥̹̊̾͌̾̈͌͌̚̚͝͠f̷͕̬͍̒F̴͓̝̹̺̭̀̋̽͗̈͆̀̀͑͊͜͜ṣ̵̰͈͕̯̫̥̙̠̬̫̭̀̿͂̄̈̕ͅn̸̻͖͖̪̠̤͌̿͌̈́͊̃͌̾̀̈́͐͑̆͜͜͝͝i̵̢̼̬̼̖̟̭̖̇͒͝F̴̧͚̞̼̖̰̈́͛̅̓̊̀̽͊̌̀̈́͘͜F̷̧͂̓̀̈́Ś̸̬̜̠̄͒͗̍̔͐͜͜͝N̶̡̛̼̠̦͎̭̠̞̹̪͇͒̇̔̌͛͜͜i̷̧̠͔̮̠̮̜̹͎͚̤̯̜͎̿̋ͅf̸̢̨̼̬͓̭̲̪̤̠̼̘̖͉̘̃̆̌͋̒̒̀̊͝͝͝F̴̧̻̹͕͙̙͉͕͕̻̻̺̥̈̌̈́Ŝ̸̯̉̀̓̑̀̍̌̀͌͘̚̚͝ñ̵̺͇̼̠̹̺̈̂̿͛͒͆̕̕į̶̺͕̆̽̇͑̑̃͗̐̽͊͝F̴̭́̀̑͑̏̍̈̉̂̕̚f̵̮̈́͆͐̎_* June's happy.

I have just been brilliantly educated and insulted... what a day But for real thank you for this!

7:50 noted boss

Thank you for this info. I'll start my practice with those shapes.

Reminds me of when I was a child I used to look at my hand's shadow on the floor. On the shadow it was not possible to see if my hand faced the floor with the palm or the backhand wooooow booom everytime mindblowing for me

I hope he makes more videos, his tips are GOLD

I've been busy and haven't watched your vids for a while, and I looked over my cousin's shoulder and literally 5 seconds of this video just revolutionized my whole technique. Will be watching your vids again thats for sure

Thank you for this because it's been helping me out a lot.

Golden tip when watching an Ethan Becker video: *Don't ever read the title. Just click the video*

who else is watching it when they are supposed to study 😂😂

Dude, your humor is so great. A perfect way to keep folks interested in what can be a dry subject.

Your editing is so chaotic I love it