The Gesture Course
Intro to Gesture
Proportions
Learning Gesture
Difficult Poses
The Gesture of Limbs
The Shape Method
Beyond Gesture
Learn how to adapt your gesture drawing techniques to tackle complex and foreshortened poses.
Newest
Matt
13d
An interesting practice!
Shayna Boyce
12d
you style and methodology of approaching gesture drawing is fantastic!! They have so much movement + say so much.
@sergeishimwe
30d
got a bit better with lines
@updatednomad
2mo
The forming lines you make, is that for perspective?
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2mo
Yes, those are ellipses to indicate perspective.
Abdulrhman
3mo
Mario Ulloa
5mo
Drawing along to the video.
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6mo
This class is so helpful, thank you! Almost nobody ever talks about collapsed or straight on gesture poses.
Josh Fiddler
7mo
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.
Eric Bunn
7mo
Actually working on a partially bent over pose now. I’ll try these techniques out. Good stuff.
Eric Bunn
7mo
First attempt at bent over figure.
Jay Nightshade
7mo
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?
Maria Bygrove
7mo
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.
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Educator, painter, writer, and art historian. Author of Figure Drawing: Design and Invention.
