Gesture Drawing - Day 3
3yr
Divya Fulzele
Hey Everyone! Sharing my first post on Proko :)
I've been practicing 30 seconds gesture poses and this is my third day work. I was in the effort of making my gestures do good storytelling and I was looking for how I can exaggerate the poses without breaking them. Please share your thoughts on this I would really appreciate :)
3yr
Hey there! Nice work! I love your lines!
Try to be braver! Be bolder with your lines! Scribble! While it's good to be clean - these are very quick studies, you can afford to be a bit messier, that way you are not forced to accept a mistake that you have made with one of the gestures and such.
Divya Fulzele
3yr
Thankyou so much! Yes I agree.
3yr
Hello! I think I would give yourself a little bit more time, and just work on a few images and make sure that your lines are really showing what you want them to show. I can tell which images the poses would be standing or seated, but the differences between each individual pose are hard to read.
Perhaps have a go at looking at your drawings and trying to recreate the pose in your own body. Then look back at the actual pose, and see which missing or changed lines could have improved your read of that pose. Then redraw those poses.
Maybe even stop yourself drawing the contour, and really limit yourself to basic 'stick-man' drawings for the shortest time control to really simplify the meaning of your lines.
I think your seated pictures are the best (I really struggle with those!) so focus a bit more on the standing ones. Keep it up :)
3yr
Well yes I was avoiding to draw the contours as much as possible! At the beginning we tend to pay too much attention to the contours and miss the rhythm of the pose . This happened with me on day 1 of practice. Recreating the pose in your own body sounds interesting :D I will try doing this! Thankyou😁
Hey Divya,
Your drawings look really clean and it seems like you are already paying attention to line economy.
One thing I think you should work on next is volume. I know these are done in a very short time frame but if you allow yourself to analyse the pose before drawing you will have a much clearer idea of how to approach it. Exaggeration can be a key element in such short poses but they can also break the form if gone overboard. Lastly one piece of advice that has always worked fot me is what Steve Huston says - if you see a line is somewhat straight make it even more straight and if you see a line somewhat curved make it even more curved!
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