ABSTRACT
For instance, if you’re going to draw a character reaching forward with his hands, the forces that make that move possible are going to affect more than just the outstretched hands. Actually it is not the muscles in the hands that extend the hands forward — it is the cooperation of many muscles throughout the body that are mustered by the forces behind that move. Those forces are actuated by the intellectual desire to do something. They inform the sensory nerve endings in the muscles to produce the feeling of stretching the arm forward. You don’t have to see this to do it — even with your eyes closed you know whether or not you are stretching. You don’t have to see it visually to do it, but you do have to see it mentally and feel it kinesthetically to draw it. Just seeing the hand outstretched means nothing unless you have felt the forces in the shoulder, the back, the bend at the waist, the reach of the neck, head, and even the look of the eyes.
