Gesture Drawing Class Work (anyone want to post their work with me?)

[TessaW]

@Annaaronson I hope you do post!

@LauraA Yeah, yours look like full on hand/foot studies, but the gestures look really solid and expressive, so you got even more out of it, which is totally a good thing. I love the baby/toddler ones. They definitely look like baby/toddler's to me! I can just hear that pitter patter of little feet.

[LauraA]

I hope someone else who is taking this class will post there work here! Anyway, here is the heads assignment.

I ended up using some of these for character design for a sequence I want to do. If you know the books, perhaps you can even tell what it is! Since I didn't have a clear idea yet what I wanted the characters to look like yet, though, I had some style and consistency problems, but that's part of why I used the exercise this way. Maybe that wasn't the original intent of the exercise, but it was helpful to me. I also left some blank space on the pages to keep going, since I feel like I should do more of this.

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[TessaW]

Trying to get back into the class! I'm interested in what she says about heads now.

[TessaW]

Extrapolation- taking preexisting characters and using them with the gestures provided.

[LauraA]

Oh, I'm so glad you're back, @Tessa! I missed your funny interpretations, and I now also realize that I never posted my other exercises that go with this lesson.

The 360 one is hard, BTW!!!

[TessaW]

I feel a bit rusty. The heads one was harder than I thought. I had a hard time nailing the expressions to the names I had in mind.

[TessaW]

360 exercise. You take a photo of the model provided and then draw it from different angles from your imagination. You're right @LauraA, it was so hard! Still need to do 2 more poses. This one took so long. I have no idea if I got the feet close or not. They were probably the hardest part.

[LauraA]

@TessaW Wow, these look great! Thanks for always providing me such a high standard to live up to. I'm actually thinking about going back and redoing some of these.

[TessaW]

@LauraA Hah, I'm pretty sure you're setting the high standard here.

More stuff. Had a hard time as usual!

[LauraA]

No @TessaW , yours have so much more personality! Love that...pirate in underwear?! I was just trying to get the anatomy right and above all, trying not to take as long as I did on some of the others. Here are the ones I left out of Lesson 5. Lesson 6 coming up...

[LauraA]

Oh, just wanted to add that I would never have thought of drawing Skullchaser, but in the end it was really fun and I like this idea of taking a human model pose and making it into a more stylized character.

Also, I like Skullchaser's flared arms and legs. There's something almost classic 1970s about him and besides, flare is back in style!

[LauraA]

Here are some of the exercises for Lesson 6!

Beginning and end--I like the pitching one better than the tug of war one:

360-I had the most fun with the medieval one (though I wasn't so consistent with the drapery), and with all of them, adding the clothes helped me find mistakes in the rotation. In fact, I'm seeing mistakes even now!:

I recommend this class to anyone, because the exercises are really helpful, especially these last ones!

[Lovsey]

@LauraA Ooh nice work on the 360 rotations, they look very believable! I found them fun but super challenging (with mistakes galore) just shows me what I need to practise

[LauraA]

@Lovsey Thanks! Do you have a thread somewhere with your work for this class?

[Lovsey]

@LauraA I didn’t share mine on the first pass of the course, I gave myself permission to keep things sloppy, loose and quick and the perfectionist in me struggled enough with that without the added pressure of sharing them Next time!

@TessaW I just noticed your amazing 360 turnarounds too! Those are some short shorts I love the creative levels of storytelling you find within the exercises.

[TessaW]

@LauraA Sweet, I love seeing your versions. Omg, you were so good at the beginning and end exercise. Great job on the 360 too! That exercise is insanely hard.

@Lovsey Hah, thanks! Those shorts are a bit more modest than the Speedos the model is wearing at least.

Ok, did the 2 person interaction ones.

[tombrinck]

Here’s my collection of my best gesture drawings from throughout the course. Wow, there’s so much to learn by viewing everyone else’s work. Thank you everyone for sharing.

[LauraA]

@tombrinck Very nice! I see you did a lot of contour drawing. And your variations have a lot of personality! I recognize some of those poses!

@TessaW I like your takes on the subject matter, as usual!

[LauraA]

Here is the last practice exercise from Lesson 6, the one with two figures:

[LauraA]

Back with double figures assignment. This time I tried very hard to loosen up! I selected a blottier brush and went to some old family photos to get more small children in the mix. I also went to the last reference resource, a collection of county fair photos with an amazing variety of humanity!

The results are mixed. I actually found the county fair photos so fascinating that I didn't want to vary from them. I may have had a bit more story success with the same couple of models that we have been working from all along. But I enjoyed getting some children in too, and since I want to do children's books, felt it was a good opportunity to practice a bit without getting too perfectionistic.

On to the last lesson!