1 minute gesture drawings - how to

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I thought I'd do more gesture drawings, because this is the foundation for dynamic poses. It is needed to do cool comic book art, among other things.

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Education

Tags:

• gesture drawing
• one minute
• quick
• movement
• capture
• photoshop

[VTun1ng]

how long did you need to get used to tablet?

[architectus777]

a week of using it all the time. But it took a few months before I had a good level of control over my strokes.

[verias]

at about the 8 minute mark, you're talking about how you can't turn your image to draw on a tablet. One trick I've seen and use myself, is using the image->adjust and rotating it 45 or 90 degrees so I can get the lines I'm after, then I just reverse the rotation afterward to put the image back upright.

Give it a shot.

[architectus777]

I do that sometimes. It is so much easier in Painter X. You can hold cntrl alt space and spin the canvas in real time. Also cs4 lets you do that, and with an intuos 4, you can do it with the wheel on the tablet.

[stacymonique]

that was awesome! now do one of a platform heel! =) lol...no seriously

[spartano305]

i do this to practice a bunch for 20 to 30m mintues but.... i feel im not getting any better or getting anywhere, dont know if doing it right or wrong

[txfnero]

I completely fail when trying to start with a "stick figure". I always gotta do something else, like use ovals and spheres to represent the parts of the body, rather than the "sticks". I dunno, I draw the stick figure, and there's just no "3D" to it, so it distracts me from the pose I was trying to draw and it starts looking like a different pose. It's kind of hard to "forshorten" with stick figures..

[txfnero]

@architectus777 Nowadays, photoshop CS5 has an option to rotate the canvas also. Like, Hold R and click/drag/rotate.. Then to put it back to default. Hold R and click the button to return to default rotation. Pretty useful if you use photoshop like me. (Yes, I realize the comment I'm replying to is a year old..)

[thyroid99]

@architectus777

Did you try forcing proportions on your tablet driver? Once this is enabled the tablet will feel very similar to pen and paper and you should be used to it right away.

[firedragop1]

Thanks for the video. I am now learning gesture drawing (reading "The Natural Way to Draw" by Nicolaides) and wasn't sure if I am doing it the right way since I don't have anyone to help me. Your video helped me a lot.

[verias]

Right, the downside is I'm on an older computer, and with CS4, using the rotation function requires openGL rendering to be enabled, which, consequently, lags the crap out of my machine.