My account is expiring soon so I thought I’d get through the gesture drawing class. Heres the intro assignment “naming the pose” wasnt sure if I was supposed to name and draw the gestures based on the names or just name them. So i drew them anyway.
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I have to admit im enjoying this!
Note these were done before watching any construction videos. Might be helpful to compare and contrast after
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Line of action gestures
The single line abstract method was very fun indeed. Helped me think in a way i frequently struggle with.
Flour sack assignment. I’ve never actually done these even though i heard about them all the time. Extremely helpful
@ArtofAleksey Have you seen the Proko videos of this? he does some free ones on youtube, If you're into this you should check them out. Im doing his anatomy course, and probably will be for another year or two, but him and marshall go into some serious detail about gesture and posing.
@gavpartridge no i havnt I’ll definitely check those out. I have an idea for some short comics would definitely like to get better at drawing characters
@ArtofAleksey Yeah same here. The Proko stuff is probably the best ive seen, but I really struggle with all the 'stick man' and gesture stuff in general. Ive been trying to master poses for a while but ultimately have to go to reference in the end to make it half decent. Your drawing seems pretty good though, facial expressions and such. You got a background in comics?
@gavpartridge ooo the best you’ve seen? No ive never had a paid illustration gig except like character commissions for dungeon and dragons.
Im making my own comics. And yourself?
First 4 of the 20 gesture emotion poses for assignment 1
@ArtofAleksey No mate, rank amateur. Just an enthusiastic hobbyist. Im 39 now, too many obligations to be thinking of careers in character design or comics or anything. I just love the art, cheesy as it sounds. Ill see where it takes me, if I get good enough to get a freelance gig doing something one day, awesome. If not, no worries. Publish a couple of vanity projects and give em out as Christmas presents!
@gavpartridge yeah you said it. Im 32 and cant afford not to work.
@ArtofAleksey Hi, may I ask you something about the class? Did you manage to download the references, because I can't do it. And I am wondering if someone have similar experience.
@Dima-Eichhorn i havnt tried ive been drawing in a sketchbook and look at them through the online pdf.
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Had time to do a few more of the assignment.
Thanks for your sharing your exercises, Aleksey! These are so great and they all make me smile or laugh, haha! You're really nailing the emotions! 
Awesome. I have a ton on the go but I might try to join in and do a little each day. You really know how to do the homework I have to say!
@ArtofAleksey thanks for sharing your class work. I started watching the video yesterday, and I have not got around to do the homework yet. But there are a few things in the first couple of lessons really stuck with me, and I could not stop thinking about it.
naming the pose (with a verb and an adjective).
I have never ever thought about doing this when I am doing a gesture drawing. THIS is a game changer for me. I think I am going to do this with every posture I drew for anything from now on. This just makes so much sense.
the emotion of a line.
This concept is something I am aware of , but puzzeled with. I do not know how to use this information. Her lecture just clearified this a lot to me. I think again this applies to art-making in general, not just gesture drawing.
@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.
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@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.
My account is expiring soon so I thought I’d get through the gesture drawing class. Heres the intro assignment “naming the pose” wasnt sure if I was supposed to name and draw the gestures based on the names or just name them. So i drew them anyway.
