DesignSessions Video Tutorial: Gesture Drawing

Looking to Develop Your Drawing Technique? "Watch" as Jordon Schranz of Sessions.edu walks you through the basics of Gesture Drawing.

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[achcaina00]

Gesture drawing is very important and essintental to an serious artist. But I hate the way this guy explains it. he doesn't ready go over the core fundamentals of gesture and why it is important. With gesture one can achieve more life and sense of movement in there drawing.

BTW, On a side note not all gesture is this messy, it depends on the artist. I prefer the slick and smooth gestures my self.

[vivamexico47]

That's how all art starts out

[vinejuli311]

Anyone else thinks even for gesture drawing it looks really cool?

[Sarskater6]

@bagelsofDEATH I think it's harder at the beginning because you don't normally want to let go and give in to intuition. Just kind of make lines even if they don't fully make sense

[stabbinhobo12]

this is beautiful 

[bagelsofDEATH]

why is this harder than it looks? my mind wants to draw in a completely different way. :\

[soulholder]

@achcaina00 is right - Gesture drawing can be a hell of a lot neater than this if you exercise your pencil pressure correctly. I therefore wouldn't always describe this as aggressive. I've found that the 'randomness' of your mark making when practicing this helps you to define the marks you actually want in relation to the ones you don't; you apply more pressure once you're sure.

In preproduction, this is often practiced with a blue pencil first an then refined with actual pencil. Try it out.

[exexlegolasexex]

Most gesture tutorial vids only show figures. Good to see an object example. there are better explanations, but I think the artist here tells you exactly why HE uses this exercise instead of trying to list every possible use that it can have.

[yesenia0123]

This is exactly how my professor wants his students do the gesture drawing.

[AIMANALI]

@achcaina00 seems like good advise (seems - cause i am new at this). Please can you tell me what are the core fundamentals ? any link etc.

I found this vid useful but anything will help me at this stage. Thx

[AyPeeElTee]

@cilo56 lol ur a fool. you havent taken a serious studio class before have you? and if you have and you feel that way you should get your money. google it noob...

[dukeaddict237]

@cilo56 actually most marvel comic creators do gesture drawing.