![]() ![]() ![]() I guess you could say – don’t think about it respond to the action and energy of the model’s pose. Often this results in an even more energetic, lively result. I also encourage my students to attempt this with their opposite hand. This aspect becomes more pronounced the shorter the time allowed. Notice that the gestures are wirier in nature as if they emerged out of a single thread. ![]() The second is a group of charcoal pencil gestures about a minute each in length. The first drawing is a brown ink rapid contour drawing, about two minutes in length. I supply some samples of what I am talking about. You can observe drawings from the Renaissance, Rembrandt’s quick sketches, Daumier’s drawings and many others and find artists practicing that very same exercise. As Nicolaides says: (In a gesture drawing),“Draw not what the thing looks like, not even what it is, but what it is doing.” That is the true essence of the gesture. What I tell my students is that gestures are like lines of energy: they begin at the core of the observed forms and describe what the figure’s action is. In fact, a few years ago, a local museum gave me an exhibition of just my gesture drawings. I have been drawing for nearly fifty years, teaching at least half that time, and over these years I have made a few observations about gesture drawing. like scribbling rather than like printing carefully – think more of the meaning than of the way the thing looks.” He also says: “In the first five seconds put something down that indicates every part of body in the pose.” He very plainly states in his posthumously published book, The Natural Way to Draw, that a gesture is “. The concept of the gesture was defined for artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries by Kimon Nicolaides. In several, I am observing what looks to me to be a fast contour drawing instead of a true “gesture”. As I have been looking over the figure drawing site for the past couple of weeks, I noticed that there has been a diversity of definition on just what a “gesture drawing” is according to the various drawing examples I see. ![]()
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