Wonderful lesson! By the way, I love little curiosities like the one about hands. That when a character raises their hands, it naturally draws more of our attention 😊

Great introduction and video/audio quality. I like the course is starting out with basic definitions and background information even based on deduction from other known artists. Analysing the abstract shapes of popular arts really helps me to understand the psychological motivation. Yet I am still wondering if this approach holds mostly true for modern productions (by e.g. Disney, Sony, etc.) or also for Fine Arts and old master techniques (such as David Kassan, Rembrandt, etc.)? I hope to find out throughout the course and for the following the course to help me devlop a stronger foundation for live drawings of real humans.

All i gotta say is the constant blinking back and forth between zoom levels on the video whenever he's on camera, very distracting and annoying. Pick a zoom level and stick with it already, Proko :)

I came here expecting to learn about the body. but learning so much about archetypes, story stereotypes and how sometime you can use shapes to break conventions in visual story is such a plus in this class already.

Your first lecture is a joy to watch. Impressive work. Congratulations Michael, it is already worthwile having purchased the course.

Can't do this exercise too many times. Really excellent way of expressing the proportions of a figure. I tried to construct this step by step as I progressed through the lesson.

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I'm so excited for this class! I didn't spot your head and figure construction courses until they were already over, but I am determined to do this one live. Gesture is an at times frustrating subject to me, but the way you break it down simplifies the complexity and emboldens me to push further.

II am geriatric & wanted to draw a Geriatric model.

Pencil on smooth newsprint. Took more than 10 hours to understand these simple patterns of design & complete 3 sketches correctly! I feel very good about completing this project & more confident about shape & structural support. Thanks, Michael.

I’m loving this course but legs are not right, and not sure what to do to fix them.

Watched the video last night. Really insightful first intro lesson Michael. I actually pretty much learned the basics from it on what to think about gesture drawing and how to approach it. I am looking forward to the upcoming lessons now. I also loved the in-depth of having us think why n how were doing it as well. Very fun things to take notes on.

the subtitles between 11:04 - 11:32 is empty, please have a fix.

When can we expect the next lesson?

Tried to gesture draw and its really fun to do and a nice change from the basic drawing course that Im following. Still lot of practice needed on my side but Im quit pleased with this attempt. :-)

Michael, I’ve been looking forward to this course and think it’s a brilliant way to help people consider what they actually want to convey or create, instead of just jumping in and starting with pencil to paper. (Which can be frustrating when you spend time on something and it’s just not as expressive as you’d like it to be). Terrific 1st lesson, and looking forward to the next!

When are the videos published?

attempts to put some gesture into the cast…

Is It 1 lesson a week?

Here's a sample of what I'm starting from gesture-wise. I learned gesture from Stan's Figure Drawing Fundamentals course a few years back by this point. I've been doing 20 -- 30 second poses and 20 -- 1 minute poses every day for the last three months. Consider these two pictures my 'before' this course. I hope to learn and improve a lot learning and applying the lessons from this course!

Any recommendations where i can find great poses for gesture studies? Also i am having trouble with my gesture on laying poses, especially poses laying in more extreme perspectives, will we cover how to handle these poses?