Subtitles of the Movie

I teach drawing to people all across the United States and one of the things that I find so common which shocks me a lot is that a lot of people don't really know what a gesture drawing is or why it's important. Many times a student will start to draw pretty hard right away, I mean they'll just go ahead and start to add a detail without even thinking about the composition, where the muscles will fit over the bone and how the feel of the artwork is formed based on the motion. And that's what a gesture drawing will help you to achieve, to get used to how things really move and how they really look and the cool thing about a gesture drawing is it is literally a quick drawing. You're not going for detail, you're going for feeling. You're going for motion and movement. To give you an example of that I'm going to just grab, I'll leave it at charcoal I guess. And I'm going to reduce the size of this horse here and I'm gonna move it over so we can just see the horse down here and I'm gonna grab my brush and let's see what size I have here. Let's see what size this is. Let me reduce the size of this brush and I'm also gonna change the color. And what I want to do with this, I'll actually put it, let's see, over here is I want to paint the feeling of this horse in motion. I don't want to get crazy with the detail. I want to get a feeling for the wind in the hair and everything so a gesture drawing is a very quick study of something in motion. So you just want to go ahead and get a feel for his tail and here's where the feet, the legs are, this is pretty much what a gesture drawing is and then what you do is just you keep practicing, you do another one and then you might want to you know get a little bit tighter this time and just get a feeling for where the, the back arches and then you know you want to get in there and see where the legs attach to the body and how the muscles work and by doing this and even just doing something like this for the hair, see that, you don't want to get crazy, you just want to get a feeling, you want to, you want to understand what's happening in the image. You want to see how that animals moving or the person is walking or sitting down. So you can get a sketch pad and go to like the cafŽ or go to the park and just watch people and uh just get a quick feeling for what's going on in the scene. You know you don't want to get crazy with it, you can even just do some very quick dots like that just to get a feel for the wind and where the muscles go and maybe a quick shadow for the back leg and that kind of thing. It's very fast and the best way to use these is to study pretty much bone structure and how that the body counter balances itself. For example if your drawing a human being and the arms are like this chances are the hips are gonna be going the opposite direction. You know that kind of stuff so the arms are gonna be kind of like on the waist and maybe the guy has his hand up or bookshelf and he's just chilling out right there you know just and that's the body imbalance so you can kind of get a feeling for what's happening with the motion. So this all it's suppose to do. Show you what's going on underneath the skin, underneath the muscle to the basic of how the body is balanced. So practice gesture drawing try to make them 30 seconds a minute best, get a pencil a pen anything, and just look at something and go. Just literally don't think about it, just let your hand draw quickly what you think you see as far as movement and motion. And pretty soon gesture drawings will help your other drawings be a little stronger.