Daily Gesture Drawing
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After a little break from art study, I've been doing daily gesture figure drawings the last few days to get back to basics. I'm trying to overcome my tendency to be overly sketchy and messy by focusing on clean, deliberate lines, trying to follow the example of Stan in the Figure Drawing Fundamentals course.
To that end, I've been doing only 30-second gesture drawings the last few days. It's challenging to be clean and identify the gesture at this time control, but it's the medicine I need. I feel a little better about today, but I still fell into old habits here and there.
Feel free to join in with your own daily gesture drawings, whether of figures, heads, hands or even other objects.
I did two sets of 30-second gesture and one set of 2-minute ones. Today I felt even worse at making the most of the time and finding the overall gesture in a lot of the poses.
Today I kept running out of time in these 30 second gesture drawings. At least changing the lamp in my drawing light helped the photo a little.
While I still found the 30 second limit a little challenging, I felt a little more comfortable quickly finding what to emphasize in some of these. I really need to work out a better art photography setup.
