Exercise - Locomotion, Walk

 This is one of the projects that I felt started testing my drawing skills and knowledge of key frames. For this project we were expected to create a walk cycle of a humanly proportioned character, I decided to use one that would be recognized as female. This then set up the question of what a woman walks like.
As I started thinking about this project I first looked at how a walk cycle is created.

This is an image taken from one of my lessons where my tutor explained the key frames of a walk, how you would set the timing for this walk and also then went on to give some examples of how different types of people walk.

I then went on to create my own sketches and take notes of how different characters would walk looking at 3 different types of people. Stereotypical women, stereotypical men and stereotypical old women.
I emphasize on stereotypical as this was not a task to give the character a personality, but in my studies I did wish to know the difference between a walk, particularity, of a 'woman' and a 'man'.

After taking these notes it was then that I had to create my own walk cycle. I think all in all I made a good effort at the movement of a woman's walk. I say good effort as I did not keep the anatomy correct and the woman stretches as she walks.  Other than this I think I got the timing right, along with all the small details of the walk. For instance a woman will bring up her knee as little as possible and will then flick her foot out forward. She will also do this with her arms, this will create a feminine swing to her overall walk in comparison to a mans walk where he will bring his knee up higher and generally walk with bigger and more rigid movements.