Gesture Tracing
Gesture Tracing
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Gesture Tracing
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@raylaw
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A lesson demonstrating how gesture and rhythm flow through the body.
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Rembert Montald
Gesture Tracing.
Moka
8d
Drew more of these with my ongoing daily practice ! Feeling that the shape/negative space analysis as well as the energy flow start to flow into my drawing little by little.
Scott Rathbone
I like this method - makes sense - however I can see I add too many lines - something I need to control when drawing-sketching.
Lux Lynn
29d
Here are two poses I worked on for my first day of 30 min soul sketching. Looking forward to seeing how I improve!
Moka
1mo
Had lots of fun and feeling I got a better understanding about the energy flow globaly. Will add this to my daily training for the comming monthes :))
@jkeomany
1mo
Is there a guide on how the x should be placed on the ground? I keep placing it wrong so the gesture looks like it's floating in space
@raylaw
1mo
My sketches🐟
Hugo Schittly
Hello ! I think I understood something. I went from hard beginnings but it’s like a block dissolved at some point. Now I try to exaggerate the poses ! The sentence of Bruce Lee helps « be water my friend » !
@wokka22
3mo
A couple I did today, feedback appreciated!
@masch
5mo
Gave it a go - I can't quite intuit where to put the energy lines, they are not quite lines of force for compression working up from the ground, eventually I bounced them between straight and curved lines.
Philippe Tremblay
Today's session. I'm finding this very helpful to find de pressure points of a gesture drawing.
@rdpman
6mo
All my drawings
@na_talie
6mo
Here are my first attempts. I am doing this all on paper, so it is quite hard for me, to see all the bumps, but I think the overall gesture is OK. The envelope helps, but my big problem is, that I tend to draw the legs too short. Is there any way to get rid of that, or do I just continue with the gesture drawings until this issue evaporates on its own?
@andreaszenau
Hi! I just started your course and I really love it! But I have one question: for the energy flow within the body, you say often „I feel“ - but are there any rules or anatomic reasons for this? thanks a lot for your response!!
Sam H
6mo
Tried a few, this was very tough! I keep using too many lines, and I'm not sure if I'm finding the energy of the pose or its outline.
Rajdeep Chatterjee
Tried to capture the gesture and the soul of the figures. Just starting out this course and it's really amazing. Would love to get some feedback.
Sam H
6mo
These look amazing!
Brayden Copley
I need to be better about looking at the overall shape.
DreamMist
7mo
i always have issues with proportions so this is a great way to contain my gestures study
Jay Nightshade
Working on these. Not very good but I can improve! This is a cool exercise, because it seems like common sense, but when you force your brain to really ask the question "where is the energy going?" it makes you think and pay more attention for sure.
Jay Nightshade
dangit i forgot the lines to represent the hip/shoulder contrapposto. :/ Here's a couple more making sure to include it. I have to burn it into my brain lol.
@butimnotanartist
Oooh. This helped me understand what people mean by rhythm tremendously. Unlocked another brain cell. Thank you.
Juan Carlos Sanchez
Hello dear Rembert, or if anyone else could help clarify this for me. I get the energy bouncing through the curves, but I don’t understand why the energy also bounces through the hips (since they’re straight and not curved). Is it because they’re bones? What other cases does this apply to—like knees or elbows, maybe?
Rembert Montald
Correct, its a straight against curves principle! The hips are bones so the stop it, usually the glutes are the curves against the straight in the front
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