How To Do Gesture Drawing

Learn Dynamic Gesture Drawing for Figure Drawing

What you'll learn

What is Gesture Drawing

Learn your unique drawing style

Learn expressive drawing

Learn how to draw in a dynamic way

Become confident in learning to draw in your unique style

The key to drawing

The power and potential of Gesture Drawing

Gesture drawing for figure drawing

Gesture drawing for drawing still life

Gesture drawing for drawing people

How to draw people

How to draw figures quickly

Requirements

There are no requirements for this course. Drawing is an expression everyone can learn

Description

Gesture Drawing is the KEY to unlock your unique creative voice, and the key to unlock YOUR drawing. With this way of drawing, you can DRAW ANYTHING.Gesture drawing is the most important skill for a beginner to learn because it ensures that you can draw confidently, and that you can draw what YOU see, that no one else sees. Most people misunderstand Gesture drawing: they think it's all about "drawing quickly" or "making a fast sketch". But gesture drawing is about drawing the movement and energy that you see in anything, and in this course, I'm going to show you EXACTLY how to do that. This class is not just for artists; this class is not solely for people who are figure drawing students; this class is for anyone who wants to unlock their own creative voice and discover their unique drawing language.I am passionate about sharing this approach and teaching people Gesture Drawing: I've taught so many people how to access this powerful way of drawing, and I've seen how it totally transforms their work. I hope you join me in this class and learn how to tap into your own voice through drawing.There are 5 drawing projects to work through and each one uses a specific gesture drawing technique that will help you to expand your creative and drawing vocabulary. The projects build from one to the other over the course of the lessons, and by the final project you will get to use all the exercises in one final piece.In this course you will learn• What Gesture Drawing is• What it is NOT• Why Gesture Drawing is so important to learn for beginner drawing students• How ANYONE can learn to draw and learn to make powerful drawings• How to Draw in Gesture style• Gesture drawing for Figure Drawing• Drawing a still life• Drawing pets and animals with Gesture Drawing• Ways to make a Gesture Drawing with charcoal• Techniques for making strong and powerful marks for drawing• How Gesture Drawing unlocks all of your drawing

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 What is Gesture Drawing

Section 2: Techniques and Process

Lecture 3 Mark Making and Observation

Lecture 4 Why Use This Technique

Lecture 5 What Materials to Use for this Class

Lecture 6 Setting Up for Drawing

Lecture 7 Warm Ups

Section 3: Drawing Projects

Lecture 8 Project 1 The Entire Drawing

Lecture 9 Project 2 Drawing Directional Lines

Lecture 10 Project 3 Drawing with Scribbles

Lecture 11 Project 4 Selective Scribbles

Lecture 12 Project 5 Using Gesture to Draw the Human Figure

Lecture 13 How to See the Gesture in the Human Figure

Lecture 14 Three Important Tips for Drawing a Timed Pose

Section 4: Conclusion

Lecture 15 Final Thoughts - the power of your drawing

This course is for artists who want to become unstuck in their practice,For Figure Drawing students,For ANYONE who want to learn how to express themselves through drawing