When they do gesture drawing these looks gorgeous but when I do they look like last page of my rough register.

This just pop up in my recommendation, I love it

I loved that you described it as holistic :-) that's how I also like to draw.

Very nice Chris. Fluid is the word that comes to mind.

Don't linger... create a place for the figure to go. Great insights.

I am impressed. Great words, thanks.

im loving this it was a long time before i found vids like this

What is next? After Gesture I and II? Structural life? like the one with Gary Geraths? Wonderful videos, you give us a lot to see, understand and practice. Thanks a million!!

So dynamic sketching..i love it...

Great video, Thanks!

Amazing.

Is there a part 1 to this video somewhere because I found a link but it seems to have been taken down.

Thanks for sharing.

Very insightful.

Great Video....there are many ways to skin a cat..and this is an especially great exercise!

@TucsonArtAcademyOnline

10 жыл бұрын

Hi Ned. Thank you for that great post. As you know it is so important to understand the gesture

@DivineCrawd

10 жыл бұрын

Gabor Svagrik Very true. I just learned this is in the past few years how important gesture drawing is. It's the difference when you see a drawing that has a rhythm and life to it compared to a stiff one. This is defintely something not to overlook.

I love the models poses

Very informative exercise, but can I ask, when it came to using ink, what made you decide what aspects of the gesture to use the bigger brushes as opposed to the smaller nib pen?

@bplatz829

10 жыл бұрын

The big brush is used for the major curvatures of the gesture like the torso and the legs, and the small lines are for the lines that make up the rest of the limbs to pull it together and complete the figure. It has to do with working from the things that carry the most weight to the lightest.

the way he's holding the pencil :)

i like this video so much. i would like to be there.

newbie here. what type of stylus is being used? is it a charcoal pencil? how is it sharpened? what kind of holder is that? thanks!

@InkAndPoet

3 жыл бұрын

That's a darker grade graphite pencil (probably 6B or 8B), he probably sharpened it with a razor and sandpaper, and that's a pencil extender. But in the end, use whatever you're most comfortable with.

@mmedeuxchevaux

3 жыл бұрын

@@InkAndPoet thank you!

i love, but why so blurry?

Can anyone tell me what kind of quill to look for with the one he used at the end?

@wolverinemarko28

3 жыл бұрын

it looks like a piece of bamboo with a cut at the end, if not bamboo you can try with a feather doing the same cut in 45 degrees aprox, there are many videos about it

@Yashendwirh

3 жыл бұрын

@@wolverinemarko28 this was so many years ago! I ended up picking up bamboo pens some years back and, having since forgotten this video, found that I quite love them! Thanks so much for commenting and reminding me!

Great teaching and good video. Unfortunately background music breaks the flow of actions and visuals and is distracting. Looking forward to the next topic from Chris Warner.

@w4r7

8 жыл бұрын

I like the music. I find it to compliment the meditative qualities in studying line of action.

Thank you very much. Very helpful :)

Como se llama esa tecnica?

Is it ok for your pencil to leave the page, like in your examples? Nicolaides seems to describe gesture drawing as more of a flow and action thing, where your pencil doesn't leave the page and you aren't really trying to capture the form, but the movement. I'm new to this. Let me know if I've misunderstood.

@tiagodagostini

7 жыл бұрын

How you do it is not that important... what you capture is. Most will find it easier to do with LONG strokes instead of short ones.. that is something almost all artists agree ( but some people can do it nicely with short strokes). The core is.. you capture the concept, the idea of the pose .. the movement.. not the geometry of the structure you are seeing.

Good job guys! Will there be a higher quality version to watch? That 240p doesn't do the video justice.

Does that help you draw or something

That looks pretty tiring for the model to just stand there like that! I suppose that helps with gesture drawing -- have to catch the image before she gets tired and relaxes! :D

Had to turn it off, at about 5 minutes because of the repetitive electro music started in, louder and louder... what's the reason? Good or bad music, it's overbearing on these types of vids. Thanks.

Cut the crappy music.

This is how you learn the human form. It is the easiest and most efficient way. Great job making yourself look stupid, however.

@sipa3137

5 жыл бұрын

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