as a beginner who has just started drawing recently, gestures affect the result a lot, especially when you try to break an object into simple shapes and fail to organize them based on perspective and break the flow, the outcome is weird, although sometimes it's hard to think about what shape you should break the part into... so art is not just practice but also the long-term of studying about a lot of things....Btw, thanks for sharing
cant help but feel Proko is truly the junction point for artist and these videos prove it more and more :D great lessons, im definitely getting the course when i have the time to go trough it xD
This video is a god send. I love seals (it’s pretty obvious) and I’ve been meaning to learn and practice for my art- specifically gestures and such because I tend to be very rigid with it and it’s so time consuming whenever I draw bodies and poses @_@ I just want to say thank you so much for this video!! And for your existence!! You’re tremendously helpful to everyone here!!
15:34 woah I had he exact same thought during this process. I've noticed something that I wouldn't have before, is this what they call progress? 😂 thank you for sharing these videos for free 👊
Honestly one of the biggest parts of good gesture drawing feels like the mileage. I've been doing 100 days of timed gesture drawing practice, and on day 50 it's getting very easy to see where the shapes, alignments, and rhythms are.
I completely second this. I've been doing gesture drawing for 7 years now. Probably once a week on average, but I often go through spurts where I do them online 3-5 times per week. The human brain is naturally very good at finding patterns on its own. After a while, you start to notice shortcuts and start taking bigger, more confident risks to get the whole gesture down in timed sessions. I've learned quite a lot about flow, anatomy, and form just from gesture drawing.
I'm a beginner trying to get into art, sorry but usually how long do you spend on gesture drawing? I'm not sure how long to spend for efficient practice
@@onlyfireg3119 2 hour sessions consistently will really level you up. During the week I can only really do 30-45 minute sessions but that just keeps me sharp for 2 hr sessions on the weekends. Focus mostly on 1-2 minute poses.
I've begun to study gesture drawing since I've noticed my basic structures look flat. This video gave me a good direction to take and I look forward to practicing drawing more seals!
Cant wait for the the free hand perspective! been going through erik Olson's course at new masters academy on technical perspective and its driving me up a wall lol. slowly digesting it, it like 120 hours, but the only in depth source i can find atm.
The way this video is edited and paced is exactly what the Drawing Basics course is like! This is most of a lesson from that course. If you enjoy it, give the course a look: www.proko.com/basics
thx dor the great tips! take some good rest and care of your self! i se tiredness in your eyes! you work a lot, but also don't forget to stop dor moment and enjoy life!
Jus out of curiosity what type of pencils is that? I don’t mean brand tho. I see artist use red and blue pencil from time to time and I’m jus wondering if it’s a different type of pencil or jus ur basic color pencil
It's a Prismacolor Col-Erase. These are great for using as a sketching pencil underneath an ink drawing or markers. These erase if you need that and aren't too waxy so whatever tool you use to draw it can still dry and adhere to the page. You don't need SUPER fancy colored pencils for it but being able to erase and draw over is important.
This has also intrigued me. Can anyone with knowledge pitch in? I can share what I have learned so far, but I am a complete newbie. Stan has stated that he feels more freedom to play when using color pencils. And I find this is also rue for myself: my brain lets go of a the need to super control every line, and erase so much. But I also saw blue and red used by other illustrators, somI wanted to know more. What I’ve read ii that the reason traditionally illustrators and edition correctors used certain blue pencils (“no copy blue”) was because the color doesn’t show up when photocopying. So for illustrators it was a way to make sketches before inking. On the other hand, the red was used for the opposite effect: it showed as very dark in photocopies, and I understand that was useful so they were easier to be a base for tracing. Being amateur, I don’t see the need to concern myself with photocopies in this day and age (if I ever need to print something in the future, it can be cleaned up digitally). But I decided to try using colored pencils to help my brain loosen up and let go my need to control/correct every line. Being broke, I have been using cheap crayola colored pencils of any darkish color for warming up , finding that they are easier to control than graphite pencils, so it gets me pass the first part of the expertise when my lines suck, though I later work with graphite, which I want to use. The one problem with the crayola colored pencils is that they wear out quickly, and the “lead” breaks a lot when sharpening, so that’s annoying. Being curious, though, I want to learn what brand do the professional artists use, though they probably are beyond my budget and need. I looked into checking pencils, the ones some teachers still use when reviewing students work. The blue Ticonderoga erasable ones were too hard and I had to press very hard on paper, leaving noticeable scratches when erasing later. The erasable crayola wood cased pencils show up even less. I tried red/blue (“Vermillion/ Prussian”) Mitsubishi marking pencils, and the feeling of control over lines is there, and they show up pretty well on paper. They also sharpen well enough. Those are my two cents. I wouldn’t be surprised or offended if a pro tells me I got everything wrong. 😅
I have been told my drawings are a lot like looney tunes. When you said "focus on the gesture, not the outlines" I was like "the outline is the gesture lol".
This is weird to me. I'm very successful at action drawings and your gesture is waaay tight. I usually scribble all through the shape. I feel like you're still too focused on the contour. Gesture is usually all about the center of motion.
In this context, it's about making sure that the lines you're making imply the motion in an image. If they're putting all their weight one one leg and stretching out the other, that weight-bearing leg with be more rigid, with more straight lines and less curve. The leg that's stretching out will be more swoopy and probably have some curve to it. It'll be different to each drawing or reference you're working from but it's about making sure that feeling of movement of the pose is in the drawing. Try watching it again with that context and it may help!
"Don't focus on the outlines" - Outlines anyway. I'm sorry that's what it looks like to me, you're just drawing up and down the lines of the reference but we're told not to do this while you do it.... why? What am I missing here cause I unusually do the long motion line to start a gesture drawing and then fan out from there. I don't start with following the outline of the head which I should but shouldn't be doing? Forget it, I'm going back to boxes like everyone tells me I should be doing anyway. I walk away from your lessons more confused than anything; and I don't feel that's intended nor as a push to 'pick up the class cause then you'll learn'.
The "outline" we want to avoid is the contour, all the small outer bumps and details of the reference. We're drawing shapes that aren't exactly the same as the reference, pushing and pulling to emphasize what we perceive as the gesture of the subject. In gesture, the lines we draw represent the flow and movement of the form, rather than a truly accurate recreation of all the bumps that we see. At that point 0:52 when I say that, you can see how different the head of the drawing is from the reference. That's all to try to bring out and emphasize the S-shaped gesture line I identified runs through it.
@@ProkoTV The lines for gesture that I've been taught, by your channel even, are usually the interior lines of motion, not the outer lines. I've been taught to start with for example what you do at 3:24 that sweeping motion line to start; not the outer sections. I don't get why we draw out to in like you do in the example when all the time I've been told in to out. This feels backwards and still just feels like "Draw the outline but don't actually draw it". I just feel stupid now and back to not getting it. More boxes I guess. I feel more like I'm following the outline than trying to get the motion of the subject.
@@pianoatthirty When no tech, or study, or book, or any tutorial doesn't seem to work; yes. I do feel stupid. Why can't my brain get this? Like the above; I don't get the difference between this and just following the outline anyway. Apparently it's very different and important but I just don't get it. I don't hate drawing, I hate that I don't feel I can go past boxes.
8:25....WRONG.... if you start with a large general shape... As you iterate down you can use that basic shapes in multiple ways... Which ever feels right.
9:40 And without even trying Stan creates both a sense of depth (which he explains) and a core of shape design in making three distinguishable big, medium and small shapes (which he doesn't go into): Look into the 'triangles' formed by the 'creases'
this video helped me with every problem i had with gesture for some reasons. details, for starters i always had a problem knowing what details to add or not to add, i add too much its a mess, if i add too little what i drew made no sense, but thanks to this video i now know to try and look for important details only. accuracy, I've always tried to stick to the image as exact as possible, but now i realized that with gesture you can slightly adjust the shape into something that looks more appealing and interesting. depth, i never knew how to create depth in a gesture drawing, turns out the answer is just creases. Thank you for making gesture fun for me stan. -banana
I guess I am pretty close to understand what gesture really is. I am that type of person, that loves math, phisics, measuring etc. but has no idea how to do something more advanced. Perspective, construction, anatomy, all of that seems to be easy for me, but gesture is like different type of art, I understand your words, but it never really made any sens for me. Now, I am understanding more and more, but still it's like magic. Thank you for giving me another chance to get a little bit closer to learn gesture!
If you enjoyed this demo, check out my previous lesson on How to Draw Interesting Shapes - th-cam.com/video/ID8r0OhiYe0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=cHNiN9oTSNCt4nUU
Thanku so much sir.....💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛
Love your teachings!
"Focus on the gesture not the outlines" one minute in and I know now why my poses are stiff. Your videos are really helpful and easily understood
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yeah that work.dor me.too
Free reference?!
It's like the old days of the anatomy course again!
man... I love proko
We do what we can!
I'm very mad at you Proko. I have gone from wanting to be a concept artist, to wanting to be a seal artist
Looking forward to all your seal concept art now lol
as a beginner who has just started drawing recently, gestures affect the result a lot, especially when you try to break an object into simple shapes and fail to organize them based on perspective and break the flow, the outcome is weird, although sometimes it's hard to think about what shape you should break the part into... so art is not just practice but also the long-term of studying about a lot of things....Btw, thanks for sharing
Currently learning about gesture drawings and how to draw them. Perfect timing!
cant help but feel Proko is truly the junction point for artist and these videos prove it more and more :D great lessons, im definitely getting the course when i have the time to go trough it xD
This video is a god send. I love seals (it’s pretty obvious) and I’ve been meaning to learn and practice for my art- specifically gestures and such because I tend to be very rigid with it and it’s so time consuming whenever I draw bodies and poses @_@
I just want to say thank you so much for this video!! And for your existence!! You’re tremendously helpful to everyone here!!
Is your name a reference to both seals and filipino bread? Because that makes my filipino heart happy
Drawing seals is a brilliant idea!
I totally didn't expect that seals would improve my gesture drawing. I was mistaken.
need more demo like this, where you apply gesture not on figure, but other things like animal, body part, etc
Now this is epic
Exactly, this is how you sell classes. Have me signing up
Very much so
You're easily impressed.
@@MauricioGarcia-yv2in Life in general is more fun that way
15:34 woah I had he exact same thought during this process. I've noticed something that I wouldn't have before, is this what they call progress? 😂 thank you for sharing these videos for free 👊
YES!
They are really fun to draw thank you for the advice
WHAT PERFECT TIMING!!! I was practicing my gesture drawing right now after looking a mike mattesi force series
Honestly one of the biggest parts of good gesture drawing feels like the mileage. I've been doing 100 days of timed gesture drawing practice, and on day 50 it's getting very easy to see where the shapes, alignments, and rhythms are.
I completely second this. I've been doing gesture drawing for 7 years now. Probably once a week on average, but I often go through spurts where I do them online 3-5 times per week.
The human brain is naturally very good at finding patterns on its own. After a while, you start to notice shortcuts and start taking bigger, more confident risks to get the whole gesture down in timed sessions. I've learned quite a lot about flow, anatomy, and form just from gesture drawing.
Thank for advice❤
I'm a beginner trying to get into art, sorry but usually how long do you spend on gesture drawing? I'm not sure how long to spend for efficient practice
@@onlyfireg3119 2 hour sessions consistently will really level you up. During the week I can only really do 30-45 minute sessions but that just keeps me sharp for 2 hr sessions on the weekends.
Focus mostly on 1-2 minute poses.
Great explanation of your thought process!
The seal theme is brilliant!!!
I've begun to study gesture drawing since I've noticed my basic structures look flat. This video gave me a good direction to take and I look forward to practicing drawing more seals!
Cant wait for the the free hand perspective! been going through erik Olson's course at new masters academy on technical perspective and its driving me up a wall lol. slowly digesting it, it like 120 hours, but the only in depth source i can find atm.
How has NO ONE made a full series of JUST seals? I feel like this can save people years on anatomy!
This helped me out a lot for drawing better gestures. Really sealed the deal!
Wow. Coming off the Anatomy course to the present day Proko is kinda jarring. You look and feel so much sterner now, damn
I may do anime art style but your videos gave me a lot of art exp.
Another great video out the gate. Love the content @proko you defo should be a guest on the podcast
this is SO well explained!! this is the way i WISH i could explain my process, lol. thank you for sharing!
Good Stuff Proko! Thank you for the brief gesture drawing video. It was helpful.
Isso vai me ajudar num futuro muito próximo😊
Hi Proko, your video inspiring me to make the right angle to make video too. I love your work, thank you!
Awesome! Thank you!
This information is going to be put to some serious use day ONE. This is a fundamental for SURE.
I'm grateful for this video
Thanks Stan!
Amazing lesson. :) Love it
amazing video, gesture just never clicks for me, but ill keep drawing seals till something does
This will also work good as warm up before figure drawing.
I love your videos and my drawing got significantly good with your teachings thank you sir
Glad they help!
Proko's the reason why my drawings don't look mediocre and flat as it used to be.
Crazy tutorial I learned so much!!
This is sooo amazing...thank youu !!
I am so grateful you've chosen animals. For me, it is more comfortable, than humans=) Plus there is a lot of useful information, thank you so much=)
I have a question for you guys. How long should i focus on seals before moving on to people? Or is this just a form of warmup?
so interesting and instructive, thank you.
This really helped thank you man
Extremly highly amazingly helpful!!!
The video editing is very engaging, I hope the Proko premium course is similar!
The way this video is edited and paced is exactly what the Drawing Basics course is like! This is most of a lesson from that course.
If you enjoy it, give the course a look:
www.proko.com/basics
thx dor the great tips! take some good rest and care of your self! i se tiredness in your eyes! you work a lot, but also don't forget to stop dor moment and enjoy life!
Dear sir
Your all Videos are very very valuable
Respect from India
Thanks!
Hey, important questions, why do you use a caryon color pencil instead of graphite, is it because it gives more control in movement.
cause it helps him stay in the sketching mood. th-cam.com/users/shortsBh59wG6Of_c?si=BgoxQUvxXxjEGnsM
Thank you for the great ideas.
This video is amazing!!!
Look at this Beard Situation. Stan be stylin 🙃😎
Please please make a background foreground and midground please
This lesson's focused on the character but we'll definitely get there in these basics lessons where we have to incorporate those elements!
@@ProkoTV I can't believe my favourite teacher reply me thank you for your reply very appreciated sir
7:31 looks like his chest is going *POO!* Like *WOW!!* Moving to this direction *flies away*
Brilliant!!!!
you have good tip in the video
Red and blue pencil
Yayy for seals!
May the science of happiness be with you.
Jus out of curiosity what type of pencils is that? I don’t mean brand tho. I see artist use red and blue pencil from time to time and I’m jus wondering if it’s a different type of pencil or jus ur basic color pencil
It's a Prismacolor Col-Erase. These are great for using as a sketching pencil underneath an ink drawing or markers. These erase if you need that and aren't too waxy so whatever tool you use to draw it can still dry and adhere to the page.
You don't need SUPER fancy colored pencils for it but being able to erase and draw over is important.
This has also intrigued me. Can anyone with knowledge pitch in?
I can share what I have learned so far, but I am a complete newbie.
Stan has stated that he feels more freedom to play when using color pencils. And I find this is also rue for myself: my brain lets go of a the need to super control every line, and erase so much.
But I also saw blue and red used by other illustrators, somI wanted to know more. What I’ve read ii that the reason traditionally illustrators and edition correctors used certain blue pencils (“no copy blue”) was because the color doesn’t show up when photocopying. So for illustrators it was a way to make sketches before inking. On the other hand, the red was used for the opposite effect: it showed as very dark in photocopies, and I understand that was useful so they were easier to be a base for tracing.
Being amateur, I don’t see the need to concern myself with photocopies in this day and age (if I ever need to print something in the future, it can be cleaned up digitally). But I decided to try using colored pencils to help my brain loosen up and let go my need to control/correct every line.
Being broke, I have been using cheap crayola colored pencils of any darkish color for warming up , finding that they are easier to control than graphite pencils, so it gets me pass the first part of the expertise when my lines suck, though I later work with graphite, which I want to use. The one problem with the crayola colored pencils is that they wear out quickly, and the “lead” breaks a lot when sharpening, so that’s annoying.
Being curious, though, I want to learn what brand do the professional artists use, though they probably are beyond my budget and need. I looked into checking pencils, the ones some teachers still use when reviewing students work. The blue Ticonderoga erasable ones were too hard and I had to press very hard on paper, leaving noticeable scratches when erasing later. The erasable crayola wood cased pencils show up even less. I tried red/blue (“Vermillion/ Prussian”) Mitsubishi marking pencils, and the feeling of control over lines is there, and they show up pretty well on paper. They also sharpen well enough.
Those are my two cents. I wouldn’t be surprised or offended if a pro tells me I got everything wrong. 😅
@@ProkoTV tyvm for the reply good sir, I really do appreciate it 🙏
I use Prismacolor Col-Erase @gabitamiravideos
im being told to draw seals? OH HELL YEAH I LOVE SEALS
THANK YOU FOR THIS! Had no idea how I was going to do my intro to anatomy without overwhelming everyone 😅🎉
I am still having difficulty discerning between following contours and following gesture.
How too create style with gesture drawings
Where can I find the course he talked about at the beginning of the video?where exactly?
www.proko.com/drawing
Nice
You use pencil what is it company??
I have been told my drawings are a lot like looney tunes. When you said "focus on the gesture, not the outlines" I was like "the outline is the gesture lol".
The 20 people that disliked this video draw the outlines. Not the gestures.
Quality? Quality.
I wonder if these are La Jolla seals. They seem to have that SoCal "look at me" attitude.
Bro that thumbnail is wilding 😂😂😂
oof I am slacking on the course, time to get back to it D:
2nd seal looks like a thumb :D
This is weird to me. I'm very successful at action drawings and your gesture is waaay tight. I usually scribble all through the shape. I feel like you're still too focused on the contour. Gesture is usually all about the center of motion.
You are amazing 🫡
Hey, thanks!
2:33 Come on Stan, it is not a tail, it is a pelvis and seal has legs attached to it xD
HOW
so basically you and then and finally
STAN LETS KISS
"Keep It Simple, Stupid?" Yes, let's 😘
i love this video and the tips are amazing but these are all sea lions there are no seals in this video
❤
SEALS
Early parts of the drawings are too light to be seen on the video
Those are sea lions, not seals.
oh my god how he doesn't age😯😯😯
Made a deal with a witch 🧙🪄
demo 2 looks like a thumb
i HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA what his mean saying "energy", 'flow" kind of stuff...
In this context, it's about making sure that the lines you're making imply the motion in an image. If they're putting all their weight one one leg and stretching out the other, that weight-bearing leg with be more rigid, with more straight lines and less curve.
The leg that's stretching out will be more swoopy and probably have some curve to it.
It'll be different to each drawing or reference you're working from but it's about making sure that feeling of movement of the pose is in the drawing. Try watching it again with that context and it may help!
@@ProkoTV tanks for the help !
Sus thumbnail
This is a stylistic reinterpretation.....not a gesture drawing
We'll have to disagree on that and that's okay!
i like videos when someone talk alot while drawing
Bro should be a biology student 😂 😂
Maybe a biology teacher
Your first gesture lines are too light to see. Hard to follow you, please make darker lines. Thanks
"Don't focus on the outlines" - Outlines anyway. I'm sorry that's what it looks like to me, you're just drawing up and down the lines of the reference but we're told not to do this while you do it.... why? What am I missing here cause I unusually do the long motion line to start a gesture drawing and then fan out from there. I don't start with following the outline of the head which I should but shouldn't be doing? Forget it, I'm going back to boxes like everyone tells me I should be doing anyway.
I walk away from your lessons more confused than anything; and I don't feel that's intended nor as a push to 'pick up the class cause then you'll learn'.
The "outline" we want to avoid is the contour, all the small outer bumps and details of the reference.
We're drawing shapes that aren't exactly the same as the reference, pushing and pulling to emphasize what we perceive as the gesture of the subject. In gesture, the lines we draw represent the flow and movement of the form, rather than a truly accurate recreation of all the bumps that we see.
At that point 0:52 when I say that, you can see how different the head of the drawing is from the reference. That's all to try to bring out and emphasize the S-shaped gesture line I identified runs through it.
@@ProkoTV The lines for gesture that I've been taught, by your channel even, are usually the interior lines of motion, not the outer lines. I've been taught to start with for example what you do at 3:24 that sweeping motion line to start; not the outer sections.
I don't get why we draw out to in like you do in the example when all the time I've been told in to out. This feels backwards and still just feels like "Draw the outline but don't actually draw it".
I just feel stupid now and back to not getting it. More boxes I guess. I feel more like I'm following the outline than trying to get the motion of the subject.
@@pianoatthirty When no tech, or study, or book, or any tutorial doesn't seem to work; yes. I do feel stupid. Why can't my brain get this?
Like the above; I don't get the difference between this and just following the outline anyway. Apparently it's very different and important but I just don't get it.
I don't hate drawing, I hate that I don't feel I can go past boxes.
Simple trick.... Just SQUINT..!
8:25....WRONG.... if you start with a large general shape... As you iterate down you can use that basic shapes in multiple ways... Which ever feels right.
What about drawing eggplant shapes twisting and turning I feel like that would also be good gesture practice 🍆
El hombre la leyenda el mito Stan prokopiko
9:40 And without even trying Stan creates both a sense of depth (which he explains) and a core of shape design in making three distinguishable big, medium and small shapes (which he doesn't go into): Look into the 'triangles' formed by the 'creases'
this video helped me with every problem i had with gesture for some reasons.
details,
for starters i always had a problem knowing what details to add or not to add, i add too much its a mess, if i add too little what i drew made no sense, but thanks to this video i now know to try and look for important details only.
accuracy,
I've always tried to stick to the image as exact as possible, but now i realized that with gesture you can slightly adjust the shape into something that looks more appealing and interesting.
depth,
i never knew how to create depth in a gesture drawing, turns out the answer is just creases.
Thank you for making gesture fun for me stan.
-banana
That sign at the end truly made me cry
@@sleeper6548 I'm not an onion bro
-banana
i wanna learn a lot from you.. please keep uploading videos like this!
This is soooo important and sooooo well made by stan I'm getting this course 100%
Can't wait to see you in there!
I guess I am pretty close to understand what gesture really is. I am that type of person, that loves math, phisics, measuring etc. but has no idea how to do something more advanced. Perspective, construction, anatomy, all of that seems to be easy for me, but gesture is like different type of art, I understand your words, but it never really made any sens for me. Now, I am understanding more and more, but still it's like magic. Thank you for giving me another chance to get a little bit closer to learn gesture!