In Friday's class, I focused on new ways to approach gesture drawing to help those new to the concept. We looked at the structure of the body through mass gestures -- starting within the form and drawing with the side of a charcoal stick, pastel, or other soft media rather than just capture the bubble of surface contours.
We moved on to wrapped-line gestures, sometimes called tornado drawings, which focus on capturing the cross-contours of the body.
We then combined techniques, and started with mass gestures as a foundation that we added a few contour lines and some shading to (4 minute poses). I used colored chalk for my mass gesture and built up from there with a charcoal stick.
We finished our gesture marathon with a 5-minute study of foreshortening, drawing just the limb that was coming towards us, and incorporating cross-contours to help us see the foreshortening.
By the time we got to the final 25-minute drawing, we were loosened up and ready to tackle David's foreshortened pose.
Many thanks to David for his hard work and beautiful poses!
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