How can i give coat tails a natural weighted feel in a 2d hand-drawn scene?

[Aria_R]

I've been trying to get a more natural, weighted feel for a character's coat tails in my 2D hand-drawn project, but my follow-through always looks stiff. I'm using overlapping action as my main principle, yet the secondary motion feels disconnected from the primary action of the character's jump.

[Luke_R]

I had the same problem with coat tails being stiff I found the read improved when the tail kept moving a beat after the jump

[MichaelFT]

I tried overlapping action as you described and the read got better when the tail lagged behind the body by a beat

[George.R]

I grabbed a quick frame by frame reference of a runner and watched the tail tempo it helped a bit but then the tail felt too wobbly

[Steven12]

Sometimes I drop the tail for the landing frame and pick it up again on the next frame to avoid stiffness

[EdwardJ]

Maybe the issue is not the tail but the cloth timing is off and the weight needs to align with the coat line

[Paisley46]

Did you try letting gravity pull the tail so it trails the body and then ease it into the arc?

[Nathan.W]

I once chased a stray line across the page and realized momentum comes from where the line ends not where it starts