I have come to really love and enjoy gesture a lot that's it's almost all I want to do every day! I was feeling pretty comfortable with my natural gestures lately and I wanted to try doing it in different ways. I found someone else's gesture works and I LOVED how they looked, so I've been trying to emulate their style as I work on them. Usually I do figures like this in about a minute, but I give myself 2 for style studies so I can take it a bit slower and observe the model and the reference and ponder a moment on how the other artist is thinking. I hope to incorporate a lot of this into my own. There's another gorgeous gesture artist I've seen that uses a lot of shadow to define the shapes and barely any contour at all, absolutely stunning work, I wish I could find the originals I saw, but I had only seen them as an example in a video that I don't remember.

I should start posting my daily gestures. Where do I go from here? Will my gestures improve incrementally? Or am I to forever create gesture as appears here?

Got it done! It only reinforces that I've got a lot of work to do.

Week 2 of the challenge! I think the rust is coming off, at least from today, I kind of had a comfort breakthrough again, it's good to get back into it. I noticed I repeated a figure from the day prior, but I think they make for an interesting comparison since I had forgotten I'd done it.

A tad late, but this is a good start to scrape off the rust and study some more. I am much more comfortable with digital, but there's a mix here. Essentially all of the traditional ones were done on my train commute to or from work. Also keeping notes! Found I really enjoyed it as I went along, really helped organize my thought process and post draw feelings.

Forgot how fun gesture can be, this was an awesome motivation this week! First image is 1 minute, then the rest are all 5 minutes.

I rarely draw for myself, basically 90% of my art is just study. When I feel in a rut, just scribbling away aimlessly reminds me that I AM learning, and it also shows me my weaknesses in imagination. Really it reveals a lot of wear I lack in fashion design, honestly it's very weak, but I don't think my fundamentals are strong enough to focus on something like that yet. Also a completely generic unreferenced sword because I think big swords are cool, could have benefit from a bit of reference, ahaha.

oh boy, I feel like my gestures suddenly got worse, that's worrisome. Suddenly too self-conscious about them maybe, I hope that this negativity doesn't stick. Somehow 2 minutes suddenly isn't enough and I can barely get anything done, this was never a problem before, just can't let it get to me.

I know he said don't get stressed out, but I get stress as heck when I can't figure something out, because then suddenly it feels like I'm lost and don't know what to do or where to go, I hope I can get some enlightenment. I can actually draw hands quite okay without construction, but this just breaks me apart and it looks terrible. It took me like 2 hours, following gesture (which I feel like I can't do well in hands by themselves) I just see so many proportion issues, which is annoying because I measured and used rhythms, perhaps too much, which I really DIDN'T want to do. I suppose there's nothing for it but to keep doing these, should probably just copy Proko's ones first instead of going out of the gate on my own. After I was done, I overlayed mine onto the original, the fingers were quite close, but originally the palm was too small, I just realigned it and it looked much better, but still a lot of issues, I'm sure.

Are we supposed to eyeball the colours for the assignment or should we be utilizing the eyedropper tool throughout?