Something I love to do is gesture drawing, namely, 30 second gestures, it's fun, it's good practice and I always feel like I'm learning more about the human (or animal) body. But these last few sessions, I've felt like my gestures were stiff! That's the opposite of what you want when you're gesture drawing, and it happens to me every time I take a hiatus from drawing.

So I do what I always do, I went and searched for some gesture drawing advice. I found the perfect video. I've been gesture drawing for years and this video just perfectly explains what I've been trying to accomplish for years, through hundreds of sketches, and makes it click in such a simple way that I see results immediately: the top is before I watched the video, and latter is right after.

On top of that, it's more fun because I'm not frustrating myself, one of the most difficult things is figuring out what you could be doing better. This post may just be for myself, so I remember to come back when I'm frustrated with gestures, but hopefully it helps some budding artists that might be watching.







And here's some additional resources for figure drawing, share yours if you know any!

Figure & Gesture Drawing Tool & Version w/ Animals

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