Gesture Sketching
What are the most important skills for getting an image on the paper? Using gesture sketching and negative shapes together allows you to block in basic shapes and see fundamental masses. Once you have this down, the details, color, and value can drop onto a framework that has already solved many of the challenges of going from eye to paper. In this workshop you will: increase your drawing speed, practice how to start any drawing, learn to see negative shapes everywhere, loosen up, get the big picture, and relax.
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KZread has a lot of good drawing instructors, but John is hands down one of the best of them all. Such a great teacher!
Thru the years I have taken many classes and read many books on sketching etc. Guess what , I am over 70 and I learned today. Was fast enough for someone who has studied but detailed enough for a beginner. I have been a teacher, I know a good teacher and you sir are great. Mr. Law, thank you now I will be looking in dick blick catalog for that pencil.
This is a drawing changer. The negative shapes, visualizing , markers... This is awesome! I haven't felt this educated since school.
Came to this video because Denise from In Liquid Color was ranting and raving about it. These techniques are SO important and I hope there’s a huge uprising of people doing gesture drawings in blue pencils and making their art incredible.
John, it's amazing to see the changes in your presentation style since you started six years ago, when you first wowed me with your natural teaching ability. Impressed with your logical, practical approach, as always. :)
Brilliant this is the best explanation I have ever come across -thankyou
wow! I have learned more from this video than i have over the past one month of sketching lessons. Great job and thanks for posting!
That's a tremendously helpful class on how to approach drawing from the ground up. I've seen countless tutorials but none was as helpful as this video. Thank you!
Hands down - very happy to see oldscholl and newest way of teaching all blended wonderfully . Thanks
Best drawing tutorial ever
Great lesson John. I worked along as you suggested (rather than just watch) and feel I now have new tools to use. I was getting bogged down in the details way too early. Thank you for sharing this advice.
Thanks John! This lesson was a great reminder to me on how to start a drawing...its so easy to lose track of this even after having done it for a while. I'm also going to use this in my Bioart class with my students.
Thank you! I've known that gesture drawing is vital for sketching, but I've never been able to work out how to do it correctly!
I love what you said about the first line being the one you should be least committed to. I admit, I was thinking about it all wrong. I was telling myself: The first line is the only one that can’t be wrong, because it’s not in relation to anything else yet. The mistakes only come if I don’t adjust all the other lines to fit the first one (and each other). LOL
Great talk john! Super helpful
He is a really great teacher, which he worked in Scandinavia.
This is really helpful. Thank you!
Enjoyed that. And so useful and helpful too!
That's a cute giraffe
I want this trip haha
Draw a bunch of approximate lumps or gross outlines then connect them and "skin" over them almost like making a stuffed giraffe toy
I'm only 5:00 in and this is going against everything I've done in the best way possible...
where is the flow ? gesture ?