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

[LauraA]

@TessaW Ah! I can understand that. We are artists, after all, and if something rankles, it really rankles!

[TessaW]

@Lovsey That's awesome! It's a good place to be- when you feel challenged but it's not defeating!

@LauraA I knew you'd understand.

Exercises and assignment for section 3. The waiting one was tricky.

[LauraA]

@TessaW Ooh!!! This batch looks particularly nice! I love the stripey "tornado" ones! I got a bit behind while reworking portfolio pieces, but I'll try to rejoin you when I get back from vacation.

[Georgy Rock]

@TessaW Golly, these are terrific!!!

[Kat]

Just read this whole thread - you guys are awesome! I've been trying to work through this class, but it's going in fits and starts. Too much going on with work and whatnot, I'm just mentally and creatively fried lately. But thanks for posting your work, it helps to spark a little bit of motivation to keep going and hopefully catch up someday.

[TessaW]

@LauraA Can't wait to see yours!

@Georgy-Rock Thank you so much!

@Kat Thanks! I think one good thing about this class is that it's in short little segments, so you can potentially do an exercise here and there. I think we can all relate to being mentally and creatively fried! I hope you can get on the upswing soon.

Here's section 4:

[aska]

I really want to do this class now! Such an awesome thread. I love the name of the poses @TessaW super funny and the poses look great and how do you find patience for so much practise??? Amazing

[LauraA]

Hi @TessaW! I'm finally back in here with you. I got stuck on assignment 2, got distracted with other projects, and finally yesterday I just went on to lesson 3. I want to do the whole class!

I took your lead and got a little looser with the comments, because I thought it helped with the storytelling aspect. I find that I start playing around with the drawing and then decide what the story is. (Maybe that's cheating?)

My three tries tended to get a bit away from the original, but I was finally pleased with the third one.

Also, the tornado drawing is a lot harder than it looks! And I misspelled despairing.

Please join back in! I'll try to spur you on!

[TessaW]

Omg, your notes are killing me. Oh yay, I'm glad you've started back up, cause it will give me motivation to finish. I've gotten side tracked with trying to figure out distance learning.

The tornado ones are so satisfying and I like how you've changed and tweaked the poses, even if it changes them quite a bit.

[Annaaronson]

These are amazing! I’m so glad I found this thread. I started the class, paused for a bit, but I am definitely going to keep going now that I have seen these. Maybe I’ll post a few too!

[LauraA]

Here's assignment 3, Weight and Wait. I am posting about half of these because there were so many. I had fun with the characterizations and trying to get the weight and gesture right, but this took way too long. I have got to do these faster. On to part 4!

[LauraA]

So @TessaW, did you take 20 hands and 20 feet to be 20 pairs of each or 20 individual hands and feet? If it's 20 individual hands, I'm getting close!

[TessaW]

@LauraA For some I did singles and others I did them in pairs. Sometimes the foot poses were looking kinda "blah" alone, so I felt the need to add the second one for more information.

I love your characters for assignment 3! I was having a hard time thinking of waiting poses, but you thought of some really fun ones.

[LauraA]

Incoming hands and feet!

Early in this assignment I got sidetracked with Baroque painting and sculpture, because I love the drama of Baroque hands and feet. Then I decided I wanted to study different ages and how children run. So my hands and feet aren't as whimsical as yours, @TessaW, and I suspect the assignment called for something freer and more creative than what I did, but I did have fun. Strangely, I could draw hands and feet all day!

P.S. Something I noticed is that when you draw contours of baby or small child feet, they really do have those lines that look like little rubber bands around their wrists and ankles, but if you draw them, they end up looking like Jabba the Hutt. So the hardest thing about the assignment was figuring out with how much wrinkle to leave and how much to erase so the babies didn't like like fat giant old men.

[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.