Learn to draw a crab
Easy to draw a cute crab
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Why do crabs move sideways?
Place your hand face down on the table and imagine that it is half a crab. The back of your hand is the crab’s shell, your fingers are the crab’s legs. Move your hands forward. Now you must have figured out how a crab moves sideways.
Crabs are encased in an exoskeleton that protects them from predators. However, the price to pay is that their upper legs have limited movement. The more a crab evolves, the more protective its exoskeleton becomes and the less its legs move. It looks funny, but that’s how crabs can survive.
Specifically, the crab’s legs are attached to its body, just like we humans are. But unfortunately for this “8 legs and 2 claws” guy, while human hands have many joints (shoulders, elbows, wrists and fingers) allowing us to move freely, crabs have very few. And those leg joints are not very flexible. They are only slightly folded in the front-back direction.
To make it easier to understand, just imagine it like this: Crab legs are similar to human fingers, they can only move vertically but are very limited horizontally. Thus, the crab walks sideways because it has accepted to sacrifice the flexibility of its legs in exchange for protection from enemies.
