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Nsio Analyses: Dynamic lines in my drawings

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I thought doing some analyses on dynamism in my drawings. For now I analysed only three of my drawings which have many strong merits on this department. There are some others, but these will do for now. I may do some more analyses if people find them useful. The examples are my original characters, you can find direct links to the works from the bottom.

This is how I see the dynamism in my eyes. The red line represents primary line of action, the main idea of the drawing. Blue lines are secondary line of actions that keep the elements in harmony. The lines drawn in magenta show some weak attempts of dynamism, although they aren't especially bad per se. 

Ibisu:
She has pretty gentle primary line of action, which actually works pretty well on her nature of hovering movement. In that sense the dynamism here is rather lovely and calm. Her loin cloth nicely contributes to the primary line, so does her right arm. I really like how there appears to be some strong arcs surrounding her. For example, if you ignore her left leg, it's easy to see Y letter in her silhouette. The arc going along her leg wings is extremely sophisticated in my opinion.

My only real concern here is the weak line going along her fans and face. It's not too bad, but the visual cues aren't especially strong to give an impression of  line of action.

Ichinose:

I'm really satisfied how this turned out. The primary line of action is reaaaaally long because it makes a complete loop around the character. This allows very powerful manipulation of the beholders eyes, as if there was a vortex in the middle of the loop. There is a lesser vortex around her arms, but sadly the visual cues don't contribute to that very much. As individual elements, the arms work nicely regardless.

The great merit here is how the tip of the pony tail actually slings the eye forward. Even better is the fact that it slings the eyes right into major crazing point of different forceful lines. I like the tension between the forces as they craze each other.

The forms on her legs have very appealing path for the eye to follow. I really like how the wing on her right leg has this subtle arc at the tip, which causes a logical path towards the tip of her left leg wing. A strong and solid character drawing all around in my opinion.

Kaiman-00
Again rather generic run of the mill primary line of action, but it works always. It can get rather boring after a while though.

There are some nice points for crazing forces here, namely around her crotch. I also like how there is this very calm line of action with subtle arc going along her wings. Had it been a straight line, the whole drawing would have been ruined. Definitely worth noting.

The hair is really pretty, but sadly the visual connection between the twintails suffers from clunky execution. They don't really form appealing path for the eyes like many other parts. Also, there is an unsuccessful attempt of sling, because there are no supporting line of actions aligned for the slingshot.

(I forgot to accentuate some keywords on Kaiman's analysis, but I'm too lazy to fix it :D)

Here are the original character sheets:
The CoDD: IBISU IB-300 Character Sheet by NsioThe CoDD: KAIMAN-00 Character Sheet by NsioThe CoDD: ICHINOSE I-57t Character Sheet by Nsio
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Again, really appreciate you taking the time to make stuff like this for others to use!