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Educator, painter, writer, and art historian. Author of Figure Drawing: Design and Invention.
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Learn how to adapt your gesture drawing techniques to tackle complex and foreshortened poses. This lesson shows you how to maintain the essence of a pose using lines and rhythms, even when standard proportions don't apply. You'll get practical tips on dealing with foreshortening, adjusting your approach for bent poses, and incorporating observational measurements to capture accurate proportions. The lesson also covers handling seated and crouched poses, avoiding tangents and overlaps, embracing subtlety in less dynamic poses, and staying flexible in your technique to capture any pose effectively.
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Learn how to adapt your gesture drawing techniques to tackle complex and foreshortened poses.
Hi, I’m sending my attempt at these poses. I made some adjustments to your method and split the stretch into two parts.
you style and methodology of approaching gesture drawing is fantastic!! They have so much movement + say so much.
The forming lines you make, is that for perspective?
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3mo
Yes, those are ellipses to indicate perspective.
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7mo
This class is so helpful, thank you! Almost nobody ever talks about collapsed or straight on gesture poses.
Grrr. I had nice notes... and then wanted to delete a line... cmd-backspace took me back a PAGE! and now they're gone. sigh.
Here's hand written ones from the video (not as good), and my attempts at the demo images.
I gave it a try! Demo three was very tough. Trying to get the hips in the right orientation without making it look like I was just drawing the side contour was tough. Demo 2 I asked myself "how can I make this more interesting?" so I pushed the back leg away making it feel like the character is almost out of balance. How did I do?
Just drawing along, trying to mimic Michael's lines. I hope that if I do it enough, something of their graceful fluidity will embed in my muscle memory.
