06-22-2013, 05:58 AM
I didn't mean going out to life drawing sessions or getting people to pose for you, more something in the vein of going to cafes and malls and sketching people without letting them notice you XD
The point of gesture drawing, imo, is to capture action and life in the pose. It's a storytelling exercise as much as a design/figure drawing one. And therefore, it's best to actually draw people doing stuff from life! That's why I've started to become less enthusiastic about sites like pixelovely, because the poses are all beginning to look staged and unnatural to me. I think those sites make good exercises for warming up though.
Just based on the fact that you started shading those last gestures, I think you might be getting down the basic pose then having a bunch of time left. I think it might be a better use of your time to spend a few seconds thinking about the pose before starting to draw it, considering how the model is supporting her weight and looking for rhythms and considering possible stories before actually making your first mark. If I wanted to study the shadows and forms of the figure I would probably set that up as a more careful, longer study instead of shading a gesture. Oh, and on that note, you should always draw the entire body in a gesture drawing!
Maybe try doing these in pen or marker or charcoal.
Plein air sketching sounds fun, something I'd like to get into too.
Hope your summer is awesome!
The point of gesture drawing, imo, is to capture action and life in the pose. It's a storytelling exercise as much as a design/figure drawing one. And therefore, it's best to actually draw people doing stuff from life! That's why I've started to become less enthusiastic about sites like pixelovely, because the poses are all beginning to look staged and unnatural to me. I think those sites make good exercises for warming up though.
Just based on the fact that you started shading those last gestures, I think you might be getting down the basic pose then having a bunch of time left. I think it might be a better use of your time to spend a few seconds thinking about the pose before starting to draw it, considering how the model is supporting her weight and looking for rhythms and considering possible stories before actually making your first mark. If I wanted to study the shadows and forms of the figure I would probably set that up as a more careful, longer study instead of shading a gesture. Oh, and on that note, you should always draw the entire body in a gesture drawing!
Maybe try doing these in pen or marker or charcoal.
Plein air sketching sounds fun, something I'd like to get into too.
Hope your summer is awesome!