better advice pen or pencil to practice with the gesture?
8mo
@pasqualed
Hi everyone I would like some advice, recently to practice with the gesture I'm using the gel pen just to get out of my comfort zone, because I've noticed that at least for me it's much more difficult, in fact I also did it to increase the difficulty of the practice. I've always used a pencil before. It must be said that I still have a long way to go, it is only a month and a half since I started practicing the gesture, now I wanted to ask you, do I do well to get out of my comfort zone and experiment with other things to practice and thus increase the difficulty or better stay with the pencil and continue like this. I don't know if I explained myself well, sorry for my English, I'm not a native speaker, just to be clear, I wanted to use a sort of method that uses drawabox, which makes you use the fineliner instead of the pencil, because you feel more confident with the pencil. Here I attach two exercises gesture of 1 minute with pencil and pen thanks to all for availability!!!!
8mo
Doing quick sketch with a pen is something I do sometimes, it forces me to be very deliberate with my marks and really focus on what I'm seeing. Then when I go back to using charcoal, I bring that focus with me.
So, I suggest you do both. Look at artist like Steve Huston and Glen Vilppu, they do figure work in pen all the time.
By the way, your gesture drawings look pretty good :)
@pasqualed
8mo
A thousand thanks!!! Yes, I've already done it, Steve Huston and Glenn Vilpuu, the latter in particular inspired me a lot, I really like his way of drawing about Glenn Vilpuu. In fact, watching their videos gave me the idea of practicing with the pen too, and just like you said it has that effect on me too, it forces me to be very thoughtful with the signs when I use the pen and now that I think about it actually then when I come back with the pencil I seem much more careful with the marks and the rhythm, so I will do so I will continue to use both methods as you suggest. A thousand thanks!!!
8mo
Hi Pasqualed...I'm not yet one of the best artists in the world, but based on the little I know, I think the medium (pen, pencil, charcoal, paint, etc.) you use doesn't matter much. The medium is secondary, and the lesson comes first. If it is gesture drawing, I think you should focus on that; gesture drawing. Once you can confidently and successfully do gesture drawing, then no one will care much whether you used ink, charcoal, or sand.
I think it is best to focus on gesture drawing using the medium you feel the most comfortable with. I think progress can be achieved quicker that way. Once mastery of gesture drawing is attained, then challenging oneself with other mediums can be introduced. My reasoning is that it is best to tackle one thing at a time. I think it is easier to only focus on gesture drawing instead of struggling with gesture drawing and a foreign medium at the same time.
I'm not yet very good at gesture drawing myself. So my critique is limited to whether to use pen or pencil. But if you feel you are good with gesture drawing using pencil...I don't think it is an issue using pen. The most important thing is that you master the lesson. The medium used is not that essential.
