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You may have heard of a term Gesture Drawing if you've ever taken an Art Class. But just in case you haven't a Gesture Drawing is a very loose, a very quick sketch. It doesn't focus on detail, instead it focuses on speed, movement, weight and it also helps you to loosen up and also to get a feel for what you're about to sketch after the Gesture Drawing. Let me give you a good example. Let's say that you want to create a gigantic creature, let's say an ape or a gigantic ogre whose lumbering through a forest and you want to convey how hunched over this character is and he is so heavy and so powerful that he's just, can't even stand straight, he has to kind of like slouch and walk through the forest. So the first thing I would do is to convey that weight and I would convey also the proportions. I would expect a character like that to have broad shoulders, a pretty big head that's kind of dipping towards his chest and maybe smaller legs and also I would expect him to have a curved back of some sort. So the first thing I probably would do is just to create the feeling of that character. Here's the spine and then I would go ahead and just draw like a quick circle and have like an arm. Once again a Gesture Drawing and we'll go ahead and put a couple of knuckles right there. His head would go right about here and he's a pretty massive creature and I'll put the chest area and the abdominal area like so. You don't really want to go for accuracy with a Gesture Drawing just a feeling of it. And here is his hands as he's knocking down a tree and maybe his arms like hanging on a branch and I want to put a leg right here as he's walking. So we've got this little leg attached to this massive creature as he's just smashing trees down and the other leg is over here bringing up the rear and there's the heel. So as you see here just by creating a very, very quick Gesture Drawing I can take this to the next level and start to refine this on an additional layer. So that's one of the great things about Painter and applications like it where you have layers. Because now you can create a layer on top this one and start to refine it. So I would take the next layer and from my Gesture Drawing start to add in the lines so that I know where the eyes would go, for example right here and then where the ears would go and the nose and that kind of thing. I might give him a big chin like this and he's not too happy so I put the mouth like this and then you start to add in the rest of the details and you start to put in the muscles. So you put a little tricep action in there and put the bicep, you want biceps and all that kinds of good stuff and the forearms and then you build onto that and then start to exaggerate. So as you can see it's a very loose sketch but it's in my opinion, a better solution then just opening up a sketch book or a piece of paper and starting to draw heavy lines and already making concrete decisions as to what the artwork should look like and I see a lot of students do that. They take a piece of paper and start to just draw hard and you know its like they've made up their mind, this is the artwork. And there's nothing wrong with that but there's no movement, there's no melody to it, it's just like a character just standing still instead of thinking about the weight of the character and the movement of that character. So I highly encourage you even now just to take out a notebook, take it everywhere you go and just draw quickly. Try to make your Gesture Drawings 30 seconds, 60 seconds and no more, draw everything, people, birds, chairs, fruit anything you can and try to catch things in motion as well. Try to catch someone looking over their shoulder as they are waiting for the bus and that kind of stuff. So have fun and hopefully Gesture Drawings will help make you a stronger artist.