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Gesture Drawing

Gesture Drawing. Gesture drawing explores the form and movement of an object in space, as your eye follows its shape. Often it may look quite realistic, but more often gesture drawings will have just a sense of the overall form.

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Gesture Drawing

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  1. Gesture Drawing

  2. Gesture drawing explores the form and movement of an object in space, as your eye follows its shape. Often it may look quite realistic, but more often gesture drawings will have just a sense of the overall form.

  3. By nature, gesture drawing tends to be done rapidly. Loose, often circular marks capture the flow of forms. Look at the whole object and notice points of tension, direction of weight or pressure, spaces, protrusions into space.

  4. Gesture drawing isn't an outline, nor is it an abstract drawing. It might not always look realistic though, because it isn't trying to represent the figure in a photographic way, but to suggest the essential feeling of the subject.

  5. According to Kimon Nicolaides in 'The Natural Way to Draw', “you should draw, not what the thing looks like, but what it is doing. You need to 'sense' the thing that you are drawing. Is it fluid and soft, or spiky and hard? Is it coiled like a spring, or off-center and asymmetric, or is it solid and balanced?”

  6. You can use the side of a piece of chalk or charcoal to create a gesture drawing with a strong feeling of weight and form, pressing more heavily on one side of the chalk to create tonal gradation within the single mark.

  7. text source:Gesture Drawing, Helen South, About.com http://drawsketch.about.com/od/drawinglessonsandtips/ss/gesturaldrawing.htm

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