We’re going to see 5 gesture mistakes that come down to our brains pulling us towards the familiar, boring symbol you see on the ground here: Mistake 1 – Too parallel I very often see beginner and intermediate level artists lose the variation in the widths going down the figure. Reducing the way the forearms […]
Today we’re going to go through a powerful exercise designed to build your gesture skills, test your knowledge of the figure, build your brain’s visual memory and your ability to draw from imagination. So it’s useful for a lot of things. There’s a video version and an article version below that: We’ve teamed up with Simon […]
What on earth should you focus on when you have seconds or just a few minutes to draw a figure? What should your mind be doing, what should your eyes be doing? We need a strategy, in this article you can read my mind as I draw. If you’d prefer to read this tutorial as […]
We have started to push ourselves to loosen up in our quicker gesture drawings. Now let’s bring that focus on movement and those looser lines to our longer drawings. Often the energy and dynamism of gesture drawings seems to be limited to quick 2 or 3 minute poses, and is often lost in the longer […]
You know you need to capture the movement, the gesture, and not worry about details – but how can you build that skill? This video/article is about powerful exercises to do just that, and we’ll throw in some extra quick tips. Exercises to simplify and loosen up So from the first video in this […]
It’s easy to say ‘draw loosely and expressively’ or ‘just capture the feeling of the pose with a few lines’. It’s really hard to actually do that. In this video, we are going to start the gesture drawing learning process from the point of view of a beginner. Gesture drawing when you’re a beginner When […]