Scans_Daily

I'm not sure I agree with that. I'm not saying that this isn't a good illustration of just how one moves when pedaling a bike up a steep hill, but to my way of thinking, the true challenge when drawing movement is how to capture things moving FAST. Things moving slowly are generally speaking much easier to draw - walking, for instance; anyone can draw someone walking. Speed things up, though - have the person striding back and forth, waving his hands, running around, bouncing off the walls - and things immediately become much more complicated to draw. I know; I've tried. There is, as you put it earlier, a kinetic energy to quick movement that is difficult to capture properly, for the simple reason that it IS so quick, and is often over in a second or less - if you were actually watching it in real life, you'd just see a blur. It is the responsibility of the artist to slow the action down enough to draw it while still giving the impression that this WOULD be a blur of motion in real life, and that's a fairly tricky thing to do. For this reason, I don't find the above all that impressive in terms of capturing movement. It's an impressively accurate portrayal of a guy riding a bike uphill, certainly, and of the physical effort involved, but of motion? Not so much.