A few more pages of attempts at gesture. People here and elsewhere keep pointing out my lines are more contour lines, even though when I drew before in my mind I was thinking of each line I was drawing was there to convey the motion. Hopefully I did a bit of a better job this time, if not I can say my biggest issue is figuring out where the line between a line conveying gesture crosses into being a contour line. These were all 60 second sketches, although the first few didn’t quite get finished due to me trying to rethink how to simplify what I was doing before to still convey the motion.

My attempts at gesture (1 minute each). I’ve done quite a few of these before, but I feel like I’m not quite getting something about how to do these. These are the most recent ones I’ve done in the last few days, but I’ve done more pages of like this than I can count and I feel like they shouldn’t still look this poor for as many as I’ve done.

Here’s my first few attempts with the bean. Did the first two pages yesterday, the other two today. Hope it’s not an issue that I posted these before my gestures. I just signed up here today even though I’ve done a few gestures before and just wanted to try out something new first.