The Gesture Course
Intro to Gesture
Proportions
Learning Gesture
Difficult Poses
The Shape Method
Bonus
Course In Progress
Course In Progress
Practice an alternative approach to gesture drawing by emphasizing shape and part before applying gesture and perspective. This method simplifies the figure into basic forms, enhancing your ability to construct poses with depth and movement.
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Lane Campbell
2d
Mr hampton, by the way, if you are still responding to posts under here, what would you say is best for inventing poses for making comics and characters? parts gesture or the 16 lines?
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10h
Kinda depends on how you invent. The 16 line method is best for working out poses without committing to detail and the shape method seems best for inventing a more specific body type quickly.
Lane Campbell
2d
Here's my attempt just before I watch the actual lesson, going to watch it now and then retry right after
Lane Campbell
2d
Here's the drawings from after watching the video, and honestly they aren't much different but a lot still feels off about the drawings, but i just can't quite see it.
Lone Varg
4d
Could this be considered like something of a half way to mannequinization, but with little less structure?
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4d
Sure!
Maria Bygrove
6d
Gannon Beck
6d
Good work, Maria!
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6d
These are looking great!
Pedro Branco
8d
Michael I'm sorry but I'm not quite understanding the difference between both methods.
I understand the the first one focuses more on direction rather than outline, and this method uses more blocky construction to define the shape but I'm struggling to see the difference beyond one method looking smoother and the other looking more rigid/defined.
Am I misunderstanding this?
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7d
The biggest difference is that in the first method I don't close off any shapes. This one purposefully works from one shape to the other. It may look a little more blocky or stiff for that reason alone.
Zander Schmer-Lalama
8d
Here’s my attempt at the shape method. I think they’re stiff, but tell me what you think.
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7d
Nice! I like how you figured out where to put the "axe handles" and how you drew that bottom of the foot! That's always a hard thing to draw.
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Educator, painter, writer, and art historian. Author of Figure Drawing: Design and Invention.
