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Albert Galilov
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3mo
added comment inGesture Drawing Essentials
Hi, I’m having trouble understanding what to focus on in the reference to get the gesture right. I also want to be able to look back at my old gestures, understand what went wrong, and improve in future practice. While you show what you’re doing, you don’t really explain how to do it. This makes it hard to follow when I try to do gesture drawing on my own. Could you update the video with explanations on how to approach gesture drawing practice?
Kathryn Fauver
2mo
Hello! I hope I can help. With gestures, the biggest thing to focus on is not having your drawing be stiff, and to have a pleasing flow to them that's appealing to the eye. Try to not focus too much on detail right away, that was an issue I had to overcome, and instead focus on placement and form of the subject. Think instead of shapes. Focus on doing short 1 min to 30 sec quick gestures to help with flow, and have the ones that are a few mins focus on form. Alongside this, do in-depth anatomy studies of the different parts of the body. When you do that, you'll start to see anatomical landmarks you can use for the quick gesture drawings.
As for how to see what went wrong and how to improve, what I did at the start was after finishing a drawing, I compare it to the photo by laying the sketch over it. From that I can see if my proportions or placement of body parts is correct or not. I take note of this and keep it in mind for when I do future drawings. Over time, I'm able to notice if something looks off just by looking at the photo and comparing, though I still do the overlay if I'm not sure why something looks wrong.
Most of all, don't be too tough on yourself and keep practicing. It'll take time but you'll get there.
Kathryn Fauver
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9mo
Hi! Here's some of the gestures I did for the lesson. These are the better ones I drew in the batch.
Completed the full course recently and decided to revisit the gestures in this video to see if I've improved. I can happily say I have! I have a better grasp at anatomy and flow along with being more confident in my skills, which I think shows. Took me a bit longer than I wanted to complete this course (more on my end, a mix of procrastination, perfectionism and work/family stuff which was rough) but months of daily practice and study have paid off! I still have a lot to learn, but I'm happy to finally know now that I can become a better artist and not be plateaued with my abilities.
Kathryn Fauver
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2mo
Here's how mine turned out! Despite some parts not being perfect, I'm still pretty proud of how this came out, considering I normally do a more cell shaded style of rendering for my personal art.
Kathryn Fauver
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3mo
Asked for help
Here's my best for Week Three.
I will admit I was quite intimidated by the prospect of this week's assignment. I haven't gone over a in depth study of hands or feet in quite a long while. However I was presently surprised by how relaxing these were to do compared to the body gestures or studies I've done before in the past. Perhaps because I didn't have preconceived notion of my skills regarding them? Regardless, I enjoyed doing these.
Kathryn Fauver
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3mo
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Here's my Week 2 gestures for Static poses.
This was definitely a challenge. Even though they were static, some of the ways the body contorted in perspective threw me off a few times while drawing. However, I got better when I redrew the poses in different drawing sessions. Biggest thing I am glad about is these helped me solidify my knowledge of anatomy even more.
Edit: Almost forgot to add the 12th one.
Kathryn Fauver
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3mo
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Week 1. Best of what I did for the 1 min and 5 min sketches during the week.
I love how concise your lines are on the 1 min exercice, the forms are solid and follow the gesture greatly. Keep it up!
wow, the 5minutes one is amazing, you manage to put that many details in such cramped time. salute!
