Dec '17

Whats making you uncomfortable? Try not to over complicate gestures drawing, your doing good.

Dec '17

Look at the 3rd pose first row, 1st pose second row, 2 poses at last row. I think they are not able to explain what models are doing. But I can't find a better way do it.

Dec '17
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Do some more ref drawing then try some timed poses on your own. Gestures are basically stick figures telling a story, its not about looking pretty at first. If you need more analysis of the figure, try drawing geometric forms. Do some timed poses and go back over Marcs figure drawing lesson.

Tip
So, with gesture, at least the way I learned it, the idea is to find an action line, or basic movement of the pose. I usually think of it as a couple of lines at most - one going from the head down to the ground, following the main long axis of the figure, and maybe one or two more to get the basic idea of what the arms or whatever are doing. It's not really about copying the contour, although you can use a very simple contour idea to draw the gesture, too. Glenn does some of that. I think the short answer is that the gesture is the quickest, broadest idea of the pose. Analysis is more of a later stage, as you develop the construction of the figure and the basic forms and such. Does that answer your question?

jesterworks_ca [11:49 AM]
So is the action line the same as axis line?

catherine_b [11:52 AM]
Well it will depend on what the figure is really doing, and not necessarily is it the axis of the figure. It's more like the axis of the pose, what is the main through line of the pose. It won't always line up with the spine or anything.

jesterworks_ca [11:54 AM]
Ok, but the action line is always their regardless?

catherine_b [11:55 AM]
Yeah, just a very simple expression of what the figure is doing. And then you build on that and elaborate and add construction and form and such.

Dec '17

thanks for the answer. it is more clear now. happy holiday luke :grinning:

16 days later

Jan '18

Regarding your questions from 20 days ago (sorry about the delay)

3rd pose first row - put the head down a bit lower, think about where her skull is, you can put an indicator of the face on them as well, just a cross or something to help show it.

1st second row - This is just a bad pose for this exercise. You did a stand up job with it.

2nd last row - same recommendation as the first, you did a better job with this one than the first.

Go through the video on this again, he touches on these points, some poses are just rough to work.

Jan '18

Also, I rather like your larger one more than the smaller, but thats going to be preference.

Jan '18

Thanks, Peter. So, poses with foreshortening are bad for this exercise. I agree those poses are hard to draw.