Constructive criticism is welcome. Here are my thoughts: - Snail: Here it was easy just to think in CSI lines. - Shoes: The first run failed completely because the object was too complex. So I broke it down into simple big shapes, e.g. the upper shoe part cylinder, the lower as simple another simple shape where I draw the cross contour lines drawn This helped me to think in 3D better.

Hi, here is my snail excersice. Like the CSI method :-) Constructive feedback is welcom :-)

I drew along the video, trying to follow the process for front/side/back poses. Depending on the pose, it wasn't always clear which line I was intended to draw, so I may have some weird stuff there and there. I need to spend some time studying what each rhythm means, I guess.

Hallo @Michael Hampton thank you for the video, the gesture drawing is very well explained.  Regarding torso, I would be interested to know how different this is from the bean torso method? The bean torso method uses two "circles/ellipses" to represent the chest and pelvis in a simplified way. But to me the end result looks similar. Is the only difference that the C curves guide the eye better through the body parts? Do you offer a course with feedback? Thanks a lot

where's the video?

To draw like Loish or Glenn Keane, knowing CSI and the gesture drawings in the figure drawing course is enough "textbook knowledge" you need, IMHO. After that what you need to do is a lot of practices, and master copies of your favorite artists. Post here and people can tell you where the gap is. Slowly narrow the gap and you'll get there. I see some drawings that you posted. You're on the right track, but you still need more mileage. It's like when a child starts to learn how to write, and he wants to write beautiful script. A teacher taught him how to write script, but he knows he's not there, and he wonders what else he needs to learn. But you know the kind of mature, slowly scripts come from years of writing with deliberate practices.

As proko suggested I make a version before proko makes the demo. So I make a version before and after the demo. In the demo of the smail I see, that proko makes an envelope and predrawing before the CSI method. This helps a lot. From figure drawing I am used to go directly into CSI.

Hi. Thanks for this method. I like gesture drawing. Also I like artists like joish or glenn keen. Gesture figure drawing ist my goal. So here is my attemp- I don't erase the wrong lines. I like also searching lines-

Here are my attemps with the pear. I make different iterations to learn more of the object details

Warmup Drawing. Tools: Samsung Tab S8 Ultra, Sketchbook App

Thank you for the suggestion, that's a great idea for a lesson! Regarding the industries, I'm not sure it matters. My gesture quicksketch is a combination of Watts, Gist, Reilly, Vilppu, and Loomis! Vilppu taught primarily for animation. Reilly and Loomis were primarily for illustration. But there's no reason they can't be used for fine art, comics, or concept design.

Hi @George Rabbitearl, this is interesting! I'll forward it to the team. I think Stan might have done what you're looking for in this video Q&A – Gesture vs Contour and Scribbly Lines (from 4:24) Cheers!

@Proko Where can I learn this? Are there more detailed courses about reilly rythmn? I like gesture drawing a lot :-)

Hi, Since I am spend the last year with gesture drawing to start a figure drawing, it is difficult for me to start with geometric shapes like in this videos. In this assignment I start with gesture for each body part and add than the form. gesture has burned into my mind :-) Hope this is no problem :-) Which advice can you give me? Thanks for any feedback :-) George

From what I understand gesture, the bean, robo-bean, and mannequinization are all related to one another at the end. Gesture is the emotion or energy of a pose, the bean is the simplest way to represent the orientation of the two major masses of the torso, the robo-bean is a way to provide structure to the bean, and that leads into mannequinization which provides structure for the entire body and a way to generalize the body so you can work on drawing the human body in any pose from any angle. The bean and robo-bean are more stepping stones on the way to mannequinization than separate things. Gesture is the energy so your drawings don’t look stiff and boring and mannequization is the structure you’re looking to apply to the gestural flow of the pose. I hope that’s correct and helps you out.

Hey George! Great job on these, you're definitely picking up the lessons Stan's teaching. To me you're actually already adding structure and not quite adding enough gesture. Sorry if that's confusing! What I mean is that in your drawings you're adding lines that wrap the form or lines that place the character is space. The idea is way more of what the subject is doing vs how it sits in a scene. Sorry if that's confusing! @Steve Huston defines gesture as the "Movement between forms" and to use gesture to find structure and structure to find gesture. What you're doing is actually a good start, I can tell you're starting to understand the idea of movement and you're beginning to put structure in based on that movement. Adding in everything at once takes tons of practice, and when you're able to it should feel natural. What I mean is some problems are best solved by adding more gesture, and others structure (and others rendering, color, composition ect... when you're trying to do more complicated art). Right now you're just trying to work with those two tools, which are the most important in my opinion. An exercise I'd recommend doing is trying to simplify your gesture to one action line. I'd also recommend checking out @Erik Gist's videos on the Watts Atelier Youtube drawing on quick sketch. The idea in these shorter drawings is to break down the drawings into simple CS and I lines. Anything more complicated than that is missing the point of quick sketch. I added another draw over I did for another student where I simplified their study to a single line. I think they did one from the same reference pack. If you'd like, I can do a draw over of one of your drawings as well. You're doing a good job, keep up the good work and you'll get there.

My exersice :-) Feedback wanted :-)