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Marco Bucci began serious study of art when he was 19. He began with drawing fundamentals for 3 years before discovering a love for painting.
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I did my gesture drawing relying mostly on drawing with force method. I like Michael's approach a lot. In a few examples I added my own twist. When I did the gravity guides I tried to imagine the pose in the side view and also tried to exaggerate the pose while still keeping it balanced. Being aware of the center of gravity helps a lot. Also, I wrote the description of the pose to make sure I am focusing on the right thing while drawing...did many iterations as well
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Gesture drawing often involves "re-programming" how you see and take in visual information. Possibly the biggest hurdle I had to get through in my journey.
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Gesture drawing often involves "re-programming" how you see and take in visual information.
I did my gesture drawing relying mostly on drawing with force method. I like Michael's approach a lot. In a few examples I added my own twist. When I did the gravity guides I tried to imagine the pose in the side view and also tried to exaggerate the pose while still keeping it balanced. Being aware of the center of gravity helps a lot. Also, I wrote the description of the pose to make sure I am focusing on the right thing while drawing...did many iterations as well
Practice from lesson, was easier since it was on the screen, but still, feeling more fun doing it, I hope it stays that way 😅
I did another one using a different person's (Kristian Nee) technique. Also redid the previous one using that technique.
Hopefully this is decent, at least. One thing I don't entirely understand is the differentiation of silhouette vs the gesture. Is it that the gesture is simply less connected to everything and more abstract? Does it have to do with the rotating C lines like in the one in the middle and the one on the side closest to the icon I use?
I think it would be helpful to practice landmarking. There's a lot of energy here but some of the angles could use more direction. There's a lot of tension in the arm connected to the ground, for instance. Accuracy isn't the point of a gesture drawing but some amount helps the human brain more easily see a person. I like Marco's points about adding plumb lines to tether parts of the body to each other while remaining loose.
Entirely new to digital. Gestures are a past time from another life and I never really got the hang of them then. Time limits give me weird line anxiety but it’s getting easier with practice. Feedback welcome, not sure where to post. Thanks
The ones under the assignments section are really good.Just try exploring a bit more with searching lines.I have the same problem with 3-5 min gestures I don't know what to do with the extra time.By the way I really like the finished piece of the boy you made.Did you use a tablet with a screen or one without?
You're drawing more of contour lines not gesture lines. Look at some of Marcos drawings in the video above.
