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This week and next, I'm bringing you a very special guest, one of my all-time favorite artists and instructors, Steve Huston. When I was a full-time student many years ago, I took a workshop with him. And the stuff he taught about gesture and structure really resonated with me.
In the Intuitive Perspective section, you'll find his first new lesson on Simplifying Gesture and Structure. It's there because it ties in really well to my lessons on Gestural Perspective.
Next week, he'll expand on it and show you how gesture and structure apply to tonal rendering. These will all lead in really nicely to our next project. We're very lucky to have Steve Huston here to share his wisdom. Go check it out!!
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Jay Nightshade
4d
"Chunk down, level up" - love this. I have been working on this very thing and it's helping a lot. Thank you.
Rose Bernatovich
9d
So very good, thanks for doing this both Steve and Proko!!!!
Alex McCaleb
12d
Hearing the sense of process hits hard~
He's breaking down like Hampton how we have so many chances to pass over a gesture or form before getting structural 'correctness' down on the page. Big to small. Major gestural flows first~
Ethan Cossett
12d
The wisdom! Appreciate you guys adding this to the course.
Juice
12d
It looks so good! And good explaining of the process!
Vera Robson
14d
Amazing to see the process broken down and explained in so much detail. Thank you Stan and Steve.
Lesulie
14d
I've watched some of Steve's courses before and his techniques are actually super helpful, to summarize simply:
- every body part has gesture (long axis) and structure (dimension and mass).
- use curves to indicate gesture, and corners to indicate structure.
- make 1 gesture flow into another to connect the body parts and show movement/action.
- use structure to figure out the spacial orientation of 1 body part so that you know where to connect the gesture of the next body part (super important for drawing from imagination).
- draw the hidden parts of the form as well to double-check that the parts connect properly.
- gesture is generally more important than structure as it shows the movement and life of the drawing.
- when practicing, chunk down the problem; focus on only 1 aspect of the drawing to get right and improve on (e.g. proportion, gesture, shape, value), don't expect every aspect to be perfect in a sketch.
J B
14d
Fantastic video! Thank you for sharing your insights!
HAK24
14d
Very cool lesson from Steve Huston , one of my favorite artists.
Tori Tempo
14d
Great lesson! I love listening to Steve and watching him draw.
@thenerdyknight
14d
Wahhhhh! The master himself!!! We NEED MORE STEVE HUSTON PLEASE!!!
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14d
Two more lesson with Steve in this course! One will be in the Values section next week, and another later in Edges.
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Founder of Proko, artist and teacher of drawing, painting, and anatomy. I try to make my lessons fun and ultra packed with information.
Fine art painter, and instructor. Known for his teaching at Art Center College of Design and New Masters Academy
