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[Artloader]

I've been doing some more gesture study and investigating what the benefits of gesture drawing are.  My conclusions so far are:

1. Your brush strokes become more natural and fluid.
   
2. Your figure drawing become more natural and fluid.
   
3. They are a good way of warming up your artistic muscles.
   

Here are some more of my gesture sketches.  I think the time limit on these was 60 seconds:




And the time limit on these was 30 seconds - I struggled a bit here - I think I need to strip these back more: