I'm definitely going to watch this again over some days with some spaced repetition. It looks like you hit EVERY relevant point in one video, especially that mental stuff toward the end. There really is a point where Confidence has to become a DECISION and not a feeling you wait for.
Imma need to watch this again cuz I felt like I wasn't even listening and was just lost in my own mind it felt like hearing a teacher talking but you're so tired that you just want to sleep but the moment they stop talking you're not tired I'm bad at paying attention..
Hey, I’m replying here because I’m a Christian and wanted to share the gospel with you! Please consider the Gospel message. To anyone reading this, there is a loving God who wants to save you. And because He loves us, He (Jesus) died on the cross and resurrected 3 days later so we can be forgiven of our sins and be saved. Repent and believe the Gospel! Please consider the state of your soul, don't let this chance pass you by. Believe in Jesus and follow Him so you can have salvation. Life is short, please make the right choice today before its too late. Jesus loves you.
Why are you so perfect at explaining this topic? 😭 I felt so overwhelmed when I tried gesture drawing because I lacked the necessary information on how to approach this process. I knew I was doing it wrong and couldn't systematise what I tried to apply (since I already knew about CSI, the relations, etc., I KNOW what makes a good gesture drawing). Like, the pressure to consider all the nuances and quickly end up with something coherent on paper felt like an unsolvable task to me. This video ALONE helped me so much, I'll be teaching myself using your explanations from now on.
OMG! Once again, everything in this video just hits me loud and sound because I've made same mistakes as described and I also need to push myself as an artist like you described....I look forward to our gesture class coming in early Feb. to explore. So delightful to always be able to go forward with your teachings.
this was incredibly helpful; thanks! one of my drawing classes jumped into gesture drawing day one with no examples and i felt very unprepared. my teacher just kept telling us to move fast and make big, long lines, but i like this slower, deliberate, form-focused approach a lot better.
I loved hearing your mark strategy! Sometimes I think just hearting an artist’s *personal* thought process can be sooooo helpful - thank you so much!!!
Your video has helped me SOO much. Your tips and perspective are absolutely fantastic and unique. I’ve looked at many videos and the things you focus on truly provide clarity to the practice. Thank you
Thank you. You are such an articulate and easy to understand and listen to instructor. I made so many notes and sketches as you explained. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge with us and being so pleasantly encouraging. A fan in Venice, California.
Thank you so much. I've been struggling with gesture drawings for the past few days and I feel like I made a breakthrough after watching this video. I've still got a long way to go but I feel like I can actually start making progress now.
This whole video is great, but man, that last tip is so huge and such a big deal to internalize. Love the way you talk about drawing, keep up your fantastic work teaching figure drawing! ❤️
I'm new here and just subscribed. Your gestures are everything that I aspire to do, but I also wanted to thank you for sharing this marvelous, funny, and informative video. I follow a lot of artists because you never know what new nuggets of wisdom you might pick up even if there is, understandably, a lot of overlap, but in all my years of failing trying and failing art some more, I don't think anyone has ever: 1) addressed the issue and tendency to draw as you already do, but faster with a shorter time limit when it comes to gesture drawing and not accomplishing what it's meant to do 2) give explicit and clear direction on HOW to be mindful like limiting yourself to a strict number of lines, or really taking your time too observe the reference this is no disrespect to other artists, but the advice ive always encountered was "going faster forces you to pick whats important" like it's a natural, inevitable progression, and i've never known how to fix it because i've never seen myself make that progression. it's made me feel like more of a failure but having watched this has given me a way forward. Thank you, sir. Glad to be here and can't wait to dive into the rest of your stuff-- after some practise, of course.
you are the best. thank you. I've been an artist for years but never understood figure drawings, it was always so overwhelming for me. now following your process my figure drawings are instantly so much better
This is so thorough and so supportive. You can really go off course and inhibit your learning if you don't understand what you are saying here. Thank you so much.
Awesome! Love your guidelines and will try them all out in my next gesture drawing session. Thank you for sharing your interesting and encouraging thoughts on gesture drawing.
My favorite art teacher from college would have us do all our out-of-class practice with pen on cheap printer paper. He said it built fearlessness because you can't take back a stroke.
This is great. There isn't any new knowledge to be found here as one that has been watching these videos for a year now, but having sound knowledge concisely reinforced every now and then can be just as helpful as stumbling into something new at times. I have a long and interesting relationship with gesture drawing. When I was first encouraged to do gesture drawings years ago, it pretty much discouraged me from continuing to practice for a long time. The idea of doing 30 second drawings that never looked like there were getting better was disheartening, especially when I didn't understand WHY I should be doing them in the first place. It's only been in the past year, thanks to channels like this one and sites like Line of Action, where I started to understand that WHY: gaining the ability to see key areas - or landmarks - for drawing a pose and doing so with increasing ease. It seemed insultingly simple, but it actually helped transform my entire artistic mindset. Since then, gesture studies have become something of my go-to way to practice, but I still struggle with issues that plagued my sessions years ago. I too often get lost when it comes to my mark-making for key areas of the figure, and I still feel like my practice can be a bit mindless at times. That's not to say I haven't improved, but I don't always feel like the time I've put into my gesture drawings are translating into my skill set, even when I occasionally stumble into a gesture drawing I really like. But I do enjoy it now and am more committed to the marathon-like mentality needed to get better. Long(er) story short, this video has helped me to remember that I don't need to rush things. A gesture drawing doesn't HAVE to be a 30 sec to 2 min speedrun; I could probably improve by taking more time to focus on my lines and building confidence in the marks I'm making. As always, I appreciate the work you're doing! P.S.: I'm looking forward to the Fresh Eyes Challenge in January. I actually took part of the initial challenge when it debuted on the site, but never got around to finishing. I think the recent refinements to the posing model should serve to make the practice more enjoyable, and the added live aspect sounds exciting!
Thank you this video really helped me a lot! This video was really clear and easy to understand! This video really helped me under What I need to work on and helped my understand that ever piece doesnt have to be perfect. Thank you so much!
your art is so beautiful! Every line is so precisely captures the gesture but is also loose and flowing, theres so much to learn in this video and very inspiring! Thank you so much
This video gives me a great insight about gesture drawing, and just in time too! I've always been intimidated at the practice since it was so unfamiliar in my realm. I am a little self-critical to what I am able to do, and just play it safe, but that only limits my skill as an artist. Thank you so much for this video!
I found your channel recently and I really appreciate your videos, They're helping me a lot to learn more even when I feel stuck and don't know what to focus on to improve.
sei fantastico! grazie per la tua generosità e l'estrema chiarezza di ogni spiegazione. il problema è che da giorni continuo a guardare i tuoi video e sto tralasciando il lavoro 😅...una specie di dipendenza, perché poi i risultati pratici nel disegno si vedono subito. grazie
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Hey, I just want to say that these tips are extremely helpful for beginners, thank you so much. A general follow-up (unsure if anyone will read this, given the video's been published year ago): When you talk about intuitive proportion, are there any exercises or advice you have for reliably getting proportions correct? One thing I suffer from is exactly what you'd mentioned-- head too big, legs either too short/too long, arms too long, etc. Just wondering how I might be able to reliably intuit proportions or train myself to better understand that. Any tips appreciated.
Hello, I’m a self-taught learner with no formal training or foundation. I’ve heard that gesture drawing can help improve drawing skills, but could you please explain specifically what I can learn from gesture drawing? I’m not a native English speaker, so I apologize if my English causes any inconvenience. Thank you.
@ What a simple and concise reason! Even if I'm not a painting master, I can understand how important it is. Thank you for your response. I will continue to practice until I get the trick. I guess it will take a lot of time.
I have an essential question for all of us here. If drawing requires miscle memory does it mean i also have to be bodysmart like an athlete to unleash my talent in creativity? Also will playing physical-skill-based games show me my muscle memory to know if i could draw well or good or terribly?
Good question. I would say no you don’t need to be like an athlete to draw well. The muscle memory is one part but mostly it’s about what you care about visually. Even if you’re not an athlete you could learn to write or ride a bike etc which is enough ability to gain muscle memory, at least that’s what I thino
Do you have a source for photographs of models posing? I have been unable to find a good source of photographs to practice from. The video BTW is very helpful and well done.
Love the videos! This might be asked already, but what pencil are you using? I know it's charcoal pencil, but what brand or grade is it? And the paper is newsprint, correct? :) Thanks for any info in advance!
Hi! I'm a digital artist but do you think doing gesture is on paper is more efficent in building the gesture drawing skill or does it not make a difference? :)
It really needs a strong intuition to learn figure and it's not easy at all.. It's like when you think you have master some gesture move, then the other you'll go like you never learn it at all.. Like you suddenly forget how to draw.. Also when we want to draw gesture, why is it so hard to visualize in mind, like our mind is very blank..
Did some reps with the scott Breton sketchfab model, right? After that, try the proko pelvis videos (anatomy vid and then process). You can't go wrong going in this order. But don't forget Kenzo's Harry & Sally video. You have to look closely at Sally's process to maximize on your time.
@@XD-rd8zd Same thing for you, the order is intentional. ScottBreton Pelvis keeping it simple construction and observation. And then clarify it same day with the two proko videos 👍 Your pelvises should look pretty good after.
As much as I like gesture drawing, much of the world's greatest masterpieces don't display it, or at least it is heavily subdued. Vermeer, Rembrandt, even Norman Rockwell doesn't use it much. It seems that art teachers, and comic book illustrators are where you see gesture the most. Am I wrong? I have seen it displayed on advertising from time to time, such as a sign poster or playbill.
@@SpeedAnarchy Yes I saw the advantage of gesture drawing in composition. You have an idea or feeling you want to express. You set the scene but you want your characters to express the theme and not just stand around like the furniture in the background. Not only gesture drawing for balance and action, I also refer to my body language books so you instinctively know what a character is feeling as well. (PS - Sometimes I do cringe a bit in these books when they get the anatomy incorrect but the knowledge of body language in their poses is priceless.)
The concept of "wrong in the right direction" was particularly helpful for my perfectionistic brain. Thank you very much.
I'm definitely going to watch this again over some days with some spaced repetition. It looks like you hit EVERY relevant point in one video, especially that mental stuff toward the end. There really is a point where Confidence has to become a DECISION and not a feeling you wait for.
Yeah it’s a 15 min video but a couple of years worth of practice!
Interestingly, I'm doing that too. I only noticed this comment after watching this video a few times.
You're right bcs i watch this for the 5th time or more.. Very useful to refresh my mind, thank you..
Imma need to watch this again cuz I felt like I wasn't even listening and was just lost in my own mind it felt like hearing a teacher talking but you're so tired that you just want to sleep but the moment they stop talking you're not tired
I'm bad at paying attention..
Hey, I’m replying here because I’m a Christian and wanted to share the gospel with you! Please consider the Gospel message.
To anyone reading this, there is a loving God who wants to save you. And because He loves us, He (Jesus) died on the cross and resurrected 3 days later so we can be forgiven of our sins and be saved. Repent and believe the Gospel! Please consider the state of your soul, don't let this chance pass you by. Believe in Jesus and follow Him so you can have salvation. Life is short, please make the right choice today before its too late. Jesus loves you.
4:25 I swear i never felt so called out ever. It sounded like you literally have read my mind and directly answered my thoughts with this little joke.
Thank you! For someone whose learning this at an older age, this is helpful! I appreciate that you didn't speed up the drawing portion of the video.
Why are you so perfect at explaining this topic? 😭
I felt so overwhelmed when I tried gesture drawing because I lacked the necessary information on how to approach this process. I knew I was doing it wrong and couldn't systematise what I tried to apply (since I already knew about CSI, the relations, etc., I KNOW what makes a good gesture drawing). Like, the pressure to consider all the nuances and quickly end up with something coherent on paper felt like an unsolvable task to me. This video ALONE helped me so much, I'll be teaching myself using your explanations from now on.
I'm so glad it helped!
OMG! Once again, everything in this video just hits me loud and sound because I've made same mistakes as described and I also need to push myself as an artist like you described....I look forward to our gesture class coming in early Feb. to explore. So delightful to always be able to go forward with your teachings.
thanks Jennifer!
Perfect timing because this month of drawing practice is specifically about gesture!
Thanks for the final message! It is important to know that is not easy and takes time to learn all the concepts
it really does, but so worth it
You're a wonderful communicator and you know how to get to the essence extremely well. Thanks.
This is definitely one of the best drawing videos I've ever seen
Your gesture drawings are really beautiful
this was incredibly helpful; thanks! one of my drawing classes jumped into gesture drawing day one with no examples and i felt very unprepared. my teacher just kept telling us to move fast and make big, long lines, but i like this slower, deliberate, form-focused approach a lot better.
I loved hearing your mark strategy! Sometimes I think just hearting an artist’s *personal* thought process can be sooooo helpful - thank you so much!!!
Your video has helped me SOO much. Your tips and perspective are absolutely fantastic and unique. I’ve looked at many videos and the things you focus on truly provide clarity to the practice.
Thank you
Thank you. You are such an articulate and easy to understand and listen to instructor. I made so many notes and sketches as you explained. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge with us and being so pleasantly encouraging. A fan in Venice, California.
Thank you so much. I've been struggling with gesture drawings for the past few days and I feel like I made a breakthrough after watching this video. I've still got a long way to go but I feel like I can actually start making progress now.
This whole video is great, but man, that last tip is so huge and such a big deal to internalize. Love the way you talk about drawing, keep up your fantastic work teaching figure drawing! ❤️
I'm new here and just subscribed. Your gestures are everything that I aspire to do, but I also wanted to thank you for sharing this marvelous, funny, and informative video. I follow a lot of artists because you never know what new nuggets of wisdom you might pick up even if there is, understandably, a lot of overlap, but in all my years of failing trying and failing art some more, I don't think anyone has ever:
1) addressed the issue and tendency to draw as you already do, but faster with a shorter time limit when it comes to gesture drawing and not accomplishing what it's meant to do
2) give explicit and clear direction on HOW to be mindful like limiting yourself to a strict number of lines, or really taking your time too observe the reference
this is no disrespect to other artists, but the advice ive always encountered was "going faster forces you to pick whats important" like it's a natural, inevitable progression, and i've never known how to fix it because i've never seen myself make that progression. it's made me feel like more of a failure but having watched this has given me a way forward. Thank you, sir. Glad to be here and can't wait to dive into the rest of your stuff--
after some practise, of course.
Hey you’re so welcome and thanks for the encouragement I really appreciate it
you are the best. thank you. I've been an artist for years but never understood figure drawings, it was always so overwhelming for me. now following your process my figure drawings are instantly so much better
You're very welcome!
Great advice! Plus your drawings are so dynamic i love it
This is so thorough and so supportive. You can really go off course and inhibit your learning if you don't understand what you are saying here. Thank you so much.
Thank you so much!
Awesome! Love your guidelines and will try them all out in my next gesture drawing session. Thank you for sharing your interesting and encouraging thoughts on gesture drawing.
thanks, man. this is the most inspiring video on drawing.
My favorite art teacher from college would have us do all our out-of-class practice with pen on cheap printer paper. He said it built fearlessness because you can't take back a stroke.
I HAVE BEEN DOING the PRACTICE LIKE YOU SAID NOT.SORPRACE CAUSE I WORKED HARD I GOT RESULTS SO GRACIAS
Kenzo is the most unique combination of all the things you could want in a teacher, absolutely world class.
So helpful for overcoming my chronic overthinking! Thamks
This is great. There isn't any new knowledge to be found here as one that has been watching these videos for a year now, but having sound knowledge concisely reinforced every now and then can be just as helpful as stumbling into something new at times.
I have a long and interesting relationship with gesture drawing. When I was first encouraged to do gesture drawings years ago, it pretty much discouraged me from continuing to practice for a long time. The idea of doing 30 second drawings that never looked like there were getting better was disheartening, especially when I didn't understand WHY I should be doing them in the first place. It's only been in the past year, thanks to channels like this one and sites like Line of Action, where I started to understand that WHY: gaining the ability to see key areas - or landmarks - for drawing a pose and doing so with increasing ease. It seemed insultingly simple, but it actually helped transform my entire artistic mindset.
Since then, gesture studies have become something of my go-to way to practice, but I still struggle with issues that plagued my sessions years ago. I too often get lost when it comes to my mark-making for key areas of the figure, and I still feel like my practice can be a bit mindless at times. That's not to say I haven't improved, but I don't always feel like the time I've put into my gesture drawings are translating into my skill set, even when I occasionally stumble into a gesture drawing I really like. But I do enjoy it now and am more committed to the marathon-like mentality needed to get better.
Long(er) story short, this video has helped me to remember that I don't need to rush things. A gesture drawing doesn't HAVE to be a 30 sec to 2 min speedrun; I could probably improve by taking more time to focus on my lines and building confidence in the marks I'm making. As always, I appreciate the work you're doing!
P.S.: I'm looking forward to the Fresh Eyes Challenge in January. I actually took part of the initial challenge when it debuted on the site, but never got around to finishing. I think the recent refinements to the posing model should serve to make the practice more enjoyable, and the added live aspect sounds exciting!
I can definitely relate to all that. See you in Jan for the challenge!
Thank you this video really helped me a lot! This video was really clear and easy to understand! This video really helped me under What I need to work on and helped my understand that ever piece doesnt have to be perfect. Thank you so much!
The limiting of types and quantity of marks was just a light bulb moment for me! Brilliant advice, thanks!
your art is so beautiful! Every line is so precisely captures the gesture but is also loose and flowing, theres so much to learn in this video and very inspiring! Thank you so much
Thank you so much!!
Thanks Love Life Drawing. Keep bringing your good intuition and dynamics to drawing.🧑🎨♾️✍️
This is the best tutorial on gesture drawing I have ever watched !! Thank you so much < 3
This is a lot of great advice! I've been doing a lot of gesture drawings lately.
This video gives me a great insight about gesture drawing, and just in time too! I've always been intimidated at the practice since it was so unfamiliar in my realm. I am a little self-critical to what I am able to do, and just play it safe, but that only limits my skill as an artist. Thank you so much for this video!
I found your channel recently and I really appreciate your videos, They're helping me a lot to learn more even when I feel stuck and don't know what to focus on to improve.
Thanks x Your advise they are VERY helpful I'm practicing VERY hardi I can see My inprooving it's alot work I'm veryhappy with My progres Gracias
Fantastic!
This was so great thank you!
Thanks! My drawings are stiff so this will help
sei fantastico! grazie per la tua generosità e l'estrema chiarezza di ogni spiegazione. il problema è che da giorni continuo a guardare i tuoi video e sto tralasciando il lavoro 😅...una specie di dipendenza, perché poi i risultati pratici nel disegno si vedono subito. grazie
I need to watch this once a month for 6 months and see if it sticks! Helpful!
thank you for this video, you explain this so well and your information has already helped me so much
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THANKS FOR REFERENCES BUD!
So far I’ve watched this twice in a day
Awesome video! And your gesture drawings are beautiful
Thank you so much 😀
minute in and i already love your teaching style
SUBBED
You’re such a great teacher☺️
It's like an artist Guru.
Thank you so much.
Can't thank you enough!
One of the best channels about anatomy and fd!! Awesome
Woaa let me tell you you saved me🙏🏻tahnks🌸
Great video, great gestures. Definitely saving to come back to again. Thanks, Kenzo 😁
Great video thanks
It is very good for me to learn illustration art..
Greetings Nugroho from Indonesia
Wonderful! Thank you very much!
always a wonderful lesson per video.
Hey, I just want to say that these tips are extremely helpful for beginners, thank you so much. A general follow-up (unsure if anyone will read this, given the video's been published year ago): When you talk about intuitive proportion, are there any exercises or advice you have for reliably getting proportions correct? One thing I suffer from is exactly what you'd mentioned-- head too big, legs either too short/too long, arms too long, etc.
Just wondering how I might be able to reliably intuit proportions or train myself to better understand that. Any tips appreciated.
Great video
So very helpful
Thank you so much I'll try these tips tomorrow for sure. 🥰
Quite a scene you've drawn of those two at 13:07 lol - if I had just started the video here.
Thanks, very helpful
This was great. Thanks so much! Great tips!
Thank you
I totally agree with what you said
Love you!!
Thanks this is very very helpful
I need to hear the part where artists say “ IT TAKES TIME “ because I tend to get very frustrated. But I am getting somewhere 😊
yeah quite often it's just a matter of doing another thousand quick sketches
Love this. Just found you...😊😊😊😊
Now, The real hard part is taking ALL , remember all of them and then put it into practive.
Then fail into even do the most simple thing correctly.
you're the best. thank you
Hello, I’m a self-taught learner with no formal training or foundation. I’ve heard that gesture drawing can help improve drawing skills, but could you please explain specifically what I can learn from gesture drawing? I’m not a native English speaker, so I apologize if my English causes any inconvenience. Thank you.
It basically brings life and energy to the figure, so it looks like a living person and not a robot
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What a simple and concise reason! Even if I'm not a painting master, I can understand how important it is. Thank you for your response. I will continue to practice until I get the trick. I guess it will take a lot of time.
Brilliant
I have an essential question for all of us here. If drawing requires miscle memory does it mean i also have to be bodysmart like an athlete to unleash my talent in creativity?
Also will playing physical-skill-based games show me my muscle memory to know if i could draw well or good or terribly?
Good question. I would say no you don’t need to be like an athlete to draw well. The muscle memory is one part but mostly it’s about what you care about visually. Even if you’re not an athlete you could learn to write or ride a bike etc which is enough ability to gain muscle memory, at least that’s what I thino
Squash and stretch? I heard that before from the Force drawing channel. Mostly from Mike Mattesi and Swendly Benilla.
what kind of pencil are you using here? i've been trying to find the right materials for gesture drawing and i love how flowy these lines look
i usually use a pitt pastel pencil on smooth newsprint. a generals charcoal 4b also works well
1) I love your shirt! Could you comment where you purchased it, the brand and model? A link?
2) What is the gadget on your shirt collar?
Do you have a source for photographs of models posing? I have been unable to find a good source of photographs to practice from. The video BTW is very helpful and well done.
Look on his website please
His website has a bunch of good quality references from different angles and different body types. It's free as well, just sign up.
Line of action
really neat vid, thanks
Great tips. thanks! I like the poses you draw from. Where do you get those reference images of the models from, please?
hey those are our references - link in description :)
Man 1st view... 🤩🤩🤩
you are ammmmazing
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Meant love ure delivery !
Love the videos! This might be asked already, but what pencil are you using? I know it's charcoal pencil, but what brand or grade is it? And the paper is newsprint, correct? :) Thanks for any info in advance!
i usually use pitt pastel :)
@@lovelifedrawing Just went and bought 3 pencils of Faber Castell Pitt Pastel. Thanks!
Excelente gratoo
Hi! I'm a digital artist but do you think doing gesture is on paper is more efficent in building the gesture drawing skill or does it not make a difference? :)
That’s a great question. I think you can do fantastic drawings on digital! It’s easier if you can draw w good range of motion in your arm
You forgot the nr 1 ingrediant that every artist needs.
Talent.
It really needs a strong intuition to learn figure and it's not easy at all..
It's like when you think you have master some gesture move, then the other you'll go like you never learn it at all.. Like you suddenly forget how to draw..
Also when we want to draw gesture, why is it so hard to visualize in mind, like our mind is very blank..
Is it worth copying another artist's gesture to try to understand the process?
Yeah for sure
Sir ! From where do i get those reference Photos ?
What pencil do you use? because it looks thicker this the pencils I use
Pitt pastel
I can see a lot of Steve Huston in your drawings.
Brabo!
I need pelvis! I need pelvis!
(Pelvis deconstruction, like you did with ribcage)
Did some reps with the scott Breton sketchfab model, right? After that, try the proko pelvis videos (anatomy vid and then process). You can't go wrong going in this order. But don't forget Kenzo's Harry & Sally video. You have to look closely at Sally's process to maximize on your time.
@@alexmccaleb2152 I shall definitely check those out. I'm following proko of course, but I don't remember watching the rest, thanks!
I'm waiting for that as well!
@@XD-rd8zd Same thing for you, the order is intentional. ScottBreton Pelvis keeping it simple construction and observation. And then clarify it same day with the two proko videos 👍
Your pelvises should look pretty good after.
I hear you! Working on it for Jan :)
As much as I like gesture drawing, much of the world's greatest masterpieces don't display it, or at least it is heavily subdued. Vermeer, Rembrandt, even Norman Rockwell doesn't use it much. It seems that art teachers, and comic book illustrators are where you see gesture the most. Am I wrong?
I have seen it displayed on advertising from time to time, such as a sign poster or playbill.
It's mainly just ment to be a construction method instead of contour drawing every bit
@@SpeedAnarchy Yes I saw the advantage of gesture drawing in composition. You have an idea or feeling you want to express. You set the scene but you want your characters to express the theme and not just stand around like the furniture in the background. Not only gesture drawing for balance and action, I also refer to my body language books so you instinctively know what a character is feeling as well. (PS - Sometimes I do cringe a bit in these books when they get the anatomy incorrect but the knowledge of body language in their poses is priceless.)
I get frustrated... I watch this video and get back to fight gesture drawing again :)
You can do it!
👋
like the video
I am so sorry, but I just can't get pass that swallowing. I mean thank you for this video I will be learning from it. I just had to say it.