Lots of gesture drawing

Life drawing class tonight. Lots of gesture drawing, and I didn’t spend more than 10 minutes on any drawing. Just a lot of starts today.

We started tonight with lots of pure gesture drawing, wow this was difficult for me. Generalizing the body in just a few arcs yet keeping proportions close, and an elegance in the motion, very difficult.

We then went into a few longer poses where I just did a bunch of starts, to try and figure out how to get proportions of the body correct in the first minutes of the drawing. I believe this is the absolute most important part of a drawing. If you don’t get these measurements correct here, the rest of the drawing will suffer completely. Needless to say, I didn’t “finish” a drawing these session, but I think I have a better idea of what I need to do to start a drawing best.

The Drawings

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2 minute pose
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2 minute pose
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2 minute poses
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2 minute poses
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2 minute poses
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2 minute poses
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5 minute pose
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5 minute pose
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15 minute pose A
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15 minute pose B
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1 Hour pose A
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1 Hour pose B
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1 Hour pose C
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1 Hour pose D
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1 Hour pose E

Session Details