Understanding Movement

Whether you are drawing motion, or actually living it, sports related, racing, or other movement activities you have to understand linear motion. As an artist I have to be able to incorporate movement into my work since most of it involves animals or human subject matter rather than still life. I think still life artwork can be beautiful but in some ways boring for the simple reason that it does not move. Even an animal that is standing, sitting, or laying down and completely 'still' has a movement about it although it is not linear. That 'alive' feeling still has to be captured in the moment. It is what makes it so exciting. Movement in sports often involves a complex understanding of geometry and physics even if it is on a subliminal level. That's what makes the games we watch and play so exciting. Even if we do not know we are calculating movement in that way it excites us.