Hi, here's my first Gesture study as well... would appreciate your input/critique... I'm not too happy with the head (will work on it when I get to the Loomis-head section). I also feel it looks a bit like a caricature, not quite sure why it came it out like that, many thanks.

So here's my 1st Gesture study. You'll notice that you'll see technically 2 different ones. Well the 1st one I did I really PACKED ON the weight. So much that it couldn't stand. My suspicion was the feet or that it was too heavy for the skeleton as the wire frame couldn't even hold it up. So I took out another wire armature and did it again. Except this time I did pencil gesture studies of the ref. I'm a line guy so I figured it would help me to translate into doing more gesture than structure. I also paid very close attention to balance. Every so often I would have the model stand to make sure I was having a balanced sculpture. Unfortunately, while I succeeded in a standing model, the upper body is too flat. I guess you can blame that on being a little too LINEar with applying the gesture drawings...get it?...Cause it's kind of...flat...

Gesture Study #3. I focused on the mass and weight of this pose because there's a lot of interesting things going on in the back and left art/shoulder area. I made a mistake in the armature construction, so the spine was 1/4" too short. Due to that, the rib cage and pelvis are closer together than what the model's proportions are, making the sculpture a little more squat. That said, since he's a bodybuilder, it kinda works and doesn't ruin the work. Any other notes are welcome.

Gesture Study #2. Putting aside my poor photography skills, this study was overall decent. I think there might be room to push the rib cage on the left side so that it really offsets from the pelvis. I found that the right leg kept sagging/bending at the knee, so that leg feels a little off from the pose reference as well. Side note: The Sculpey I found for the $5 challenge is Super Soft/gummy, and it feels like it doesn't bake completely... I can definitely see why it was free. Still, I"m happy to use it for gesture sculpts because it frees me up from getting too precious with things.

Gesture study #1. For this assignment, I built 3 armatures at 3/4" = 1 Cranial unit which yielded 9" tall armatures. The material I worked in was white Sculpey. I chose this pose because it was the hardest one for my brain to wrap itself around. Something about the relationship of the head, torso, hips and feet were challenging. Overall, I think I came pretty close to capturing and pushing the gesture of the pose, properly identifying a center line, and sort of implying the squash and stretch sides of the torso. I think I'll add a more permanent support for this sculpture too.

Gesture Study

I had an opportunity to do a 2.5 hour life model session where I sculpted in plasticine around a wire armature with the oven bake clay masses for the head, torso and pelvis. I used a 1 inch cranial unit which I found too small to add the fingers but I would like to do a bigger one with the hands next

Gesture studies! The first one ended up a bit to lanky and stiff, but the other ones went a bit better which was nice. Any feedback is welcome!

Gesture Study 3 with an Armature

Gesture Study 2 with an Armature

Gesture Study 1 with an Armature

Hi my names Kalinda , I did my first gesture study , would love to get your feedback :)

Hi, I am a bit late to the party but finally began this course and completed my first gesture study in plasticine.

Andrew, this may sound odd but I am not on any social media and do not want to be. Is there a different way for me to get images to you?

Even though I do figure drawing, I had some trouble trying to ignore the details. I didn't intend for them to be smoothed at all but I was working in a warm room so they smoothed some just from handling them. I'm open to any suggestions of things to work on in future gestures.

I am really enjoying this lesson. Here are a few views of my work in progress. I'm using the same pose as in the video (Candle 004). I have bulked up the gesture too much, and am now working on carving back the features. I probably should have worked more slowly from the beginning!!!

there is no link for the models.