Video: Sketching a Gesture Drawing

Gesture drawings are basic art compositions of how we'd like our drawing to look. Learn how to draw a simple gesture drawing with the help of an expert in this free video art lesson.

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Hi, I'm David Clemmon on behalf of Expert Village and today we're going to learn the basics of drawing. And now we have a better understanding of the proportion in the relation to the human figure, we're going to use this wooden drawing tool that is movable and very proportion as far as the human figure goes and you can bend and shape it and the reason this is good is because the human figure moves and twists and bends and so forth. If you can learn the adult human figure, you can pretty much draw anything. So, the exercise we're going to do now is gesture drawings. And basically what I going to do is I going to put this into a drawing into a position and I'm not trying draw it or try to shade it or anything. I basically just trying to get the gesture of what this is. So, I just want to take a really short amount of time and just want to pick up the head here and figure this in here and see that the chest comes down here and basically drawing the spine but I'm drawing the chest, the hips, this is actually the midsection but the hips here. Then I'm going to draw the ball that here and then I going to come down get the thigh. I'm almost tracing it as I go but you notice how the top calve starts thinning as it goes out and then it comes back in. So, I'm just trying to get this loosely here and the foot is pointing down but it does have a joint there. This is connected here. Basically, I'm using this model to help me learn how the body moves and its structure. Everyone wants to do the face and the shading and all that first. But first you have to learn how the human figure is structured before you can do any of that other stuff. If I want even can draw the little stand that it's on and that's how you would do a gesture drawing.

Sketching a Gesture Drawing

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