2023年2月14日 · Okay so gesture drawing is really about multiple things. First, it is a warm up exercise in life drawing classes and studios to loosen up your arms and hand and making bold strokes. In a 3 hour session, gesture drawings are usually 10-15 minutes. Secondly, gesture drawings focus on capturing movement instead of accurate proportions.

I do gesture drawings sometimes digitally or in my sketchbook but my absolute favorite way is going to a live gesture drawing class with a big 18x24 pad of newsprint and some charcoal! Working on the large newsprint really helps for getting the flow of the form since it's easy to make broad, curving strokes since you're engaging your whole arm ...

2023年10月15日 · If you want a very thorough in depth explanation I just looked at my copy of “Force Dynamic Drawing for Animators” and the first 70 pages are completely dedicated to dynamic gesture drawing. Those would be my two recommendations. Also I know you’re not wanting to watch videos but “love life drawing” on YouTube is the best in my opinion.

Doing gesture drawing these day. Most of the reference photos are from various sports events or yoga poses. Sometimes I drew fellow passengers on my buses. I find gesture drawing most helpful when done quickly. I might be biased but any gesture drawing longer than five minutes are not good uses of time.

2021年10月1日 · Gesture drawing is not meant for drawing from imagination, it’s meant for capturing forms in front of you quickly to get the dynamic quality of movement. It’s a reference drawing to help with more technical drawings. A foundation, not really meant for imaginative drawing. Here’s the reality 99% of artists work from models or reference.

Gesture drawing is an approach to drawing. You can gesture draw a tree, an animal—most organic subject matters that have some element of curves to them. In most cases, however, gesture drawing is used to refer to gesture drawing figures. Gesture drawing is a kind of figure drawing. In other words, you can call it an approach to figure drawing.

Posemaniacs is a tool I used a lot when I was learning, go to the sidebar and click '30 second drawing'. It will help to draw at basically breakneck speed, get in as much detail as you can in a very short period.

2021年9月25日 · When doing 1 min figure drawing, try to keep that initial gesture to 30 seconds. Then you have 30 seconds to check and fix structure issues. Same as you try 5 min etc. But getting to that point might mean a lot of 5 min gestures to get used to it till you get down to shit 30s. Michael Hampton and Aaron Blaise both talk about gesture as well.

2023年8月30日 · A gesture drawing is fundamentally about relative positionings and relationships between the various parts of the body. These things should really take no more than maybe 30 seconds to a minute, minute-and-a-half at most. If you're spending more than that much time on a gesture drawing, you're no longer drawing gesture, but doing a figure study ...

2015年12月5日 · Yesterday was day 100 of me learning to paint and today is day 30 since my first gesture drawing so I thought I'd post my first progress update on reddit. Here's a comparison of my 2 minute gesture drawings from day 1 and day 30 (aka day 70 and day 100): Day 1 vs Day 30. Still got a long way to go but I'll get there.