Gesture Drawing Feedback
2yr
@gunter
Heya,
Recently I started with drawing gesture and I was wondering if anyone could give me feedback on what I made so far. The images attached to this post are the first gesture drawings I've drawn, but before I was going to continue, I wanted to make sure I wasn't learning the wrong way without noticing.
I'm aware that some of these drawings aren't the same as the reference, but that's because I wanted to keep applying exaggeration.
I agree with Steve's comment. I would also add that it looks as though your thinking of body parts, objects, things when you do your gestures. Think of movement and the center line of each forms instead. I've found that I draw better gestures when I do the same.
Lastly, how long are you spending on each of these?
I didn't really kept track of time when I drew these gestures, but I think it's around 5-10 minutes each (I'm very new to this). Also, you're right about the fact that I think about the forms when I'm drawing gesture, but that's because I still struggle with keeping things simple: Imagening the basic forms of the body helps me understand the rythms flowing between and around the structure of the figure.
Perhaps I'm overthinking gesture because I read somewhere that gesture is also good for putting down the foundations of a figure drawing, such as position and proportion.
Hey Gunter,
I like your choice of poses, comic art is full of gesture, so it's good to study from.
When we do gesture drawing, we want to find gesture that describes the whole pose from top to bottom. We want to look for a "S" or "C" curves that will define the pose. Then we can look for gesture in the limbs and how they relate to the overall gesture of the body. I did some quick sketches to show you what I mean, I hope they help :)
Thank you for taking the time to draw those examples! I do look for C & S curves and straight lines when drawing gesture, but in each major body part (head, torso, legs and arms) instead of the whole figure. However, I try to connect these lines from the major forms to the line of action. The captain america punch is a good example of that.
My gesture drawings do need more work and keeping things simple probably is indeed the key to improve, but so far, looking for gesture in forms is easier for me than the whole pose.
