Intro to Gesture Drawing class

[ArtofAleksey]

@xin-li yes! The same for me too! Ive never been good at abstract illustration so that line exercise was really interesting! And the naming of the pose because i dont have the most robust English vocabulary is kinda tough too. But I try to keep it simple and seems to work ok.

[xin li]

@ArtofAleksey I have limited vocabulary in English too, hehe. But I find the act of "pause and think, then draw" alone is huge.
I remeber hearing an interview with Pascal Campion that he talked about he would go for a walk and saw something he wanted to draw, and he would describe everything in words for himself to remember so he can go home and paint the scene. And the method of keywords taught by Lee and David in SVS has kind of changed my way of creating art. It is fasinating to me how words play a huge role in the process of art-making.

[ArtofAleksey]

@xin-li yeah i agree. Stephen silver has a method similar in his character design process.

[xin li]

@ArtofAleksey really. I have to read his book again. I have a copy of his kickstarter book for character design.

[ArtofAleksey]

@xin-li i think it was an exercise, when you look at a person, try to memorize as many features about them, their mood, their clothes, accessories, age, etc, then go redraw it with what you remember

[ArtofAleksey]

Hmm i seem to have a habit of having all my Figures facing to the right.. im gonna try and turn them the other way

[Nyrryl Cadiz]

@ArtofAleksey amazing!

[ArtofAleksey]

I think they’re improving!

[ArtofAleksey]

Whew all 20 of assignment 1

[Dima Eichhorn]

@ArtofAleksey Thanks a lot, this way is also ok. I will used them like that.

[Heather Boyd]

@ArtofAleksey so many of these had such a wonderful smile/smirk on them lols, definitely contributes to the gesture!

[demotlj]

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[ArtofAleksey]

My bean and noodle assignments. The last pose i wanted to raise one of the legs but it felt really off to look at so i did the pose and realized that the body would have to shift to one side for that leg to be up so i put the leg down.

[ArtofAleksey]

So trying the shape thing. I think I should play with it a bit more with the triangle shape thing, it’s a bit tough for me.

[Pamela Fraley]

@ArtofAleksey this makes me want to check out this class even more!

[ArtofAleksey]

@Pamela-Fraley is very good the exercises have helped me with what i wanted

[ArtofAleksey]

Silhouettes! I tried these a few times. On paper it’s more interesting.

[ArtofAleksey]

Negative space exercises

[ArtofAleksey]

Assignment 2 , 20 shape gestures, heres the first 4

[ArtofAleksey]

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