After graduating college, I got this course as a gift :) gesture is harder than I thought and I decided to do the overhand grip which makes it harder lol. I stuck with it for a week and here are my recent results so far. couple things I learned this week: 1. I made the mistake of doing 30 second gesture as warm ups. I decided to do 3 minutes of 2 - 3 poses as warm ups before doing the 2 minutes and than the 30 seconds. Worked way better. 2. using the overhand grip felt really weird this week. It felt like I was learning how to write lol. But I stuck through and I’m starting to get an idea of how to use it. Also I tried sharpening it with a blade and idk if I’m doing it right lol. 3. for anyone that’s feeling discouraged or upset, I understand cause I feel those feelings as well but I remind myself that I’m learning. You will improve, just practice, feel the flow, move your whole arm, watch Stan videos again and watch how he moves his whole arm. Take breaks! lastly, feedback is always welcome! I use proko free gesture pack for some of these gestures btw.

I found that my longer poses always seemed to be a bit stiffer so I started focusing on doing more sets of 1 minute poses to try and loosen myself up. Have also been enjoying trying to compose nicer pages as well. I feel like my line weight could be more controlled. Is this something I should try work on now, or wait until a further lesson?

Im not an expert on gestures any improvements I can make?

I’ve been doing quick poses casually for a couple years, but I feel like I’ve plateaued. I’m now trying to approach gesture with more structure and intention. This is my most recent set—I’d appreciate any critique, especially on areas where my flow or structure might be breaking down.

My first time doing gesture drawings, I did about 40 5m sketches and compiled a few of my favourites. I really struggled with the time constraints of 30s / 2m sketches and felt like I needed some more time. I would appreciate feedback on the attached drawings and any device on how I can speed up.

Gestures are fantastic. Every time I do them I feel like I learn something new.

I've been practicing it nearly every day for over a month. It's both fun and a little frustrating, but I can feel myself gradually getting better.

Been doing these for about a week now and seeing some improvement! would appreciate some feedback. (Excuse the lined paper, trying to use it up.)

I took quick notes and sketches while watching the lesson.

This is my first time ever attempting gesture drawing. I can't tell if I am doing this right though.. I am working on ignoring the contour and detail as much as I can and just making motion lines and trying to feel them. Do these look right for 30 second attempts? I'm just trying to make sure I'm getting the principals that are being taught here.

I tried with some 30 second poses, and some 2 minute ones too. I've always struggled with gesture, so I'm hoping I can turn it into a strength!

This is my first ever drawing course, started two weeks ago. I'm having a fun but hard time with gesture – especially, I guess, distinguishing between contour and actual gesture. Not sure if I'm grasping the concept sufficiently to move on to the bean... Would love some suggestions on how to improve!

Hello! Here are my gesture drawing submissions. I would really appreciate some feedback as I want to improve. Thank you!

Thanks yo, I am doing this course until you post next video on basics one and also I am bored with shapes so I’ll continue that later. These were done with video. Amazing video amazing knowledge.

30s and 2min

These are 30s homework, I do not know how to progress, 2min homework, I always used to pay attention to the outline, otherwise I can not draw the curve of the body, hope someone can give me some advice

Hey all. I started the course yesterday and thought I'd share my first 4 attempts at gesture drawing (something I'd never been great at) because I think you can see the influence of the lessons as I progress. The first one was completed (as suggested) before watching the instruction video, the three that follow are after watching this video. These are a selection of my favourite drawings from each session, there were about 40-50 each in total. I included the same one twice by accident on the fourth so ignore that!

This is my first attempt at 2 minute gesture drawings. I overestimated that 2 minutes is long enough but yeah, hopefully I am starting to understand the gesture lessons.