How To Draw Gesture Proko

Answering some of your questions about Gesture:

Is it OK to skip gesture?
What's the difference between gesture and contour?
Can I use scribbly lines to find gesture?

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I'll be demonstrating the process of this drawing in a livestream on my YouTube channel today at 10am PDT as part of Lightbox Expo. A live Q&A will follow. Link to the stream - https://youtu.be/2hQb0ZfW2Pk

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Pro artists Michael Mattesi and Diego Lucia teach you how to make your figures more dynamic. The author behind the Force Books is the guy to help you un-stiff your stiff poses. To see Force instructor, Swendly Benilia take this pose and design a character around it, head over to Michael Mattesi's youtube channel and watch Part 2.

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Almost two months after posting my initial "Robo-Bean" exercises, I'm making a return, having bought the full figure drawing course from @stanprokopenko and done a bit of recapping.

This is definitely the hardest exercise to date, because accuracy and exaggeration are at opposite ends, and I'm fighting to attain both. Look forward to more boxy figures for a while.

Keep it up @critter615! Your practice is definitely paying off.

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Today's figure drawing demo. Showing the basic structure of the body in perspective.

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Warming up for some figure drawing with quick tonal sketches.

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The conclusion to Tim's life drawing series. There's 8 longer examples of how he draws the figure from a live model using the Reilly method!

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Some Tips: Here's an example of a muscular yet dynamic arm drawing. A lot of students have a hard time keeping the gesture when they make the muscles bigger. • Construct with a balance of straights and curves • Look for asymmetries • Find the main... — **Some Tips:**

Here's an example of a muscular yet dynamic arm drawing. A lot of students have a hard time keeping the gesture when they make the muscles bigger.

**Construct with a balance of straights and curves**

**Look for asymmetries**

**Find the main gesture in the beginning and design the muscle shapes to help that gesture.**

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Here are some quicksketches with butts. We're working on the butt lesson. Butts 🍑

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Mike Mattesi demonstrates how to draw dynamic shapes that create rhythm and appeal. He also gives us a little sketch tour of his old work that shows how he used dynamic shapes to capture FORCE. Thanks to Squarespace for sponsoring this video.

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