Daily Gesture Drawing
3mo
pell
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 tried without indicating the ribcage and hips with ovals, although I did suggest the hips with a line in some of these. 30-second gesture
In today's 30-second gesture session, I found myself drawing a lot larger. So I didn't get as many figures on the page.
I need to stop being lazy and properly sharpen my gesture pencil. I barely had a nib today, which definitely affected the process. 30-second gesture
Today's 30-second gesture session. The pencil nib was low again. I only touched it up a couple of days ago.
Today's 30-second drawing session. For my own future reference, I didn't miss a day. I just got to them after midnight.
It was another 30-second gesture session of drawing bold lines with the almost non-existent pencil nib.
