01-20-2021, 02:22 PM
Hey I'm kind of workin on it too. I find gesture to be a difficult concept just because there are so many different takes on it. Some people say don't draw the contours, just draw the flow of the figure. Some people say draw the action, what the figure is doing. There's Mattesi's FORCE stuff which is it's own kind of thing.
Some people keep things in proportion, while other people recommend exaggerating the pose as far as possible until it breaks.
Most of these ideas run into logical trouble when you have a pose which doesn't have any clear dramatic action. Standing or sitting for example, which are two things people, especially models, tend to do a lot...
Sorry, not trying to be confusing about the topic, but I don't think there is a definitive answer to whether you are going about it in the right way. Depends who you ask and what you're trying to do with it. One thing I will say is that you want to look for the flow and rhythm of parts, and how they relate to each other. Your drawings establish the general pose, so we can easily see what the figure is doing. But there's not much flow or rhythm to them.
To make things simple, you could just pick an artist you like, and whose gestures and explanations make the most sense to you, and just going with that for a while. If you like Proko, just go with what he says for a while and see what you can learn from it.
Some people keep things in proportion, while other people recommend exaggerating the pose as far as possible until it breaks.
Most of these ideas run into logical trouble when you have a pose which doesn't have any clear dramatic action. Standing or sitting for example, which are two things people, especially models, tend to do a lot...
Sorry, not trying to be confusing about the topic, but I don't think there is a definitive answer to whether you are going about it in the right way. Depends who you ask and what you're trying to do with it. One thing I will say is that you want to look for the flow and rhythm of parts, and how they relate to each other. Your drawings establish the general pose, so we can easily see what the figure is doing. But there's not much flow or rhythm to them.
To make things simple, you could just pick an artist you like, and whose gestures and explanations make the most sense to you, and just going with that for a while. If you like Proko, just go with what he says for a while and see what you can learn from it.