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From camwyn:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4-7 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest (unless it's too troublesome to reach and is really heavy. Then go back to step 1).
6. Tag five people.

Page 123 was all illustrations, so I went to the next page.

"[...] One side is the active side. On this side the forms are forced toward each other, and are compressed and brought together much like the pleats of an accordion. The opposite and 'inflated' side shows the longer, sweeping curves.

"Try to capture a definite feeling of movement in every pose. The cartoonist adds greatly to the sense of movement of his figures by drawing direction or speed lines back of a moving hand or foot, but you must show this movement in the pose of the figure itself."

- The Figure: the Classic Approach to Drawing & Construction, Walt Reed, first published 1976.

Yeah I'm not gonna bother tagging anyone. Eff that noise.