What would you say are the top 5 things an artist must do to draw dynamic and expressive figures in comics?

1. Observation: watch gymnastics footage, Parkour, acrobats, etc so that you can see how extremely the human body can move.

2.Remember that it's comic books. Walt Disney use to say "All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable." That means not being afraid to go extreme occasionally for effect.

3. For your characters to be credible, there's a certain amount of acting involved, so study peoples body language and try to replicate that in your work.

4. Watch how faces move, what they're capable of expressing, particularly the eyes.

5.Realism is a trap, unless you're going for that type of stiffness in your work. Even Rockwell and Sargent allowed for a certian amount of fantasy and whimsy in their work.

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