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Quickposes and Line-of-Action are both very useful tools for gesture drawings, with collections of images and built-in timer features.
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Some other lines to consider are the curve of the spine (if it isn’t already part of your line of action), the line of the shoulders, and the line of the hips. Put that line down first, then build out your gesture from there. Imagine you’re working in abstract if you had to reduce the entire pose to a single line, where would that line fall? In most poses, you can find a line – sometimes nearly straight, sometimes curved in half – that best summarizes the overall shape of the pose. In order to get started, find the central line, or line of action. While in a longer drawing, you may find yourself starting with focus on one area of the figure and working your way out, in gesture, it’s crucial to get a sense of the whole figure down at once and develop it as a whole. Think about core forms and lines of movement you want someone looking at the drawing to recognize the emotion or action, not the person feeling the emotion or doing the action. Don’t worry about details or contours when drawing gesture. Find your own rhythm and method of getting down gesture drawings, and don’t worry too much about whether your gesture drawing looks exactly like someone else’s. There is no perfect gesture ‘style’ – every artist is unique. Gesture drawing tends to have a sense of fluidity to it let your lines be long and loose. Curved lines, especially C and S curves, can communicate the general organic form of the figure as well as the ‘flow’ of a pose. The motion and emotion of a given pose may be more important to communicate than the exact position. Some gesture drawings are wildly exaggerated, capturing the “feel” of a pose more than the exact proportions. I strongly recommend working gesture drawing, from photos or from life, into your regular drawing practice as a way to loosen up, hone your skills, and have some low-pressure fun.
#Define montage series#
Many artists use gestures as warm-ups and incorporate them into regular drawing practice most formal figure drawing sessions will start each session with a series of brief poses for gesture drawing before moving on to longer poses. Gestures can be done as studies for a longer drawing, or as simple exercises all on their own.
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Gesture drawing very roughly and quickly (anything longer than 5 minutes and you’re outside of gesture drawing territory) lays in the action, shape, and feel of a figure, distilling it down to the most essential information.
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So when we do gesture drawing, our goal is not to replicate the exact detail of a particular pose, but to capture the sense of motion in the pose. ‘Gesture’ is defined as a movement of the body.