Today I dusted the cobwebs off my pencil and newsprint pad and sat down to do some gesture drawing! Todd Bright's weekly All In Gesture class gets recorded, so I was able to take part at a time that suited me. It was so much fun to do, despite being very rusty.
Last week I drew some gesture drawings of dogs from Line of Action and here are a few of the results! I enjoyed trying to capture the attitude of each dog. Most of these were drawn in 30 seconds. The ones with more detail were done in two minutes.
I've been busy with work and a family wedding, so it's taken me a while to post anything new! Here's a group of studies from one of Muybridge's wonderful sequences.
Recently I signed up to Scott Eaton's Bodies in Motion website, which is stuffed to the gills with stunning figure references. The 'Motions' feature sequences of photographs of people dancing, leaping, and fighting. What's lovely about it is that moments of action can...
Some quick studies from Line of Action - a mix of 30- and 60-second sketches.
Some more gestures from the other day. The hands and feet were all 30 second poses, the figures were all one minute poses.
Haven't drawn much in the last few days, so I spent some of my morning doing timed sketches from artists.pixelovely.com [now https://line-of-action.com/] - a great site for gesture practice. These were 30 second drawings.
I haven't posted any figure drawings in ages. They've been building up for a while so here are some of my gesture drawings from a fantastic workshop that Sarah Airriess (former Disney animator, animation assistant on Duet, and animator on Ethel and Ernest) gave during...
Here are some 30-second animal sketches! I'm drawing a lot more very short poses and it's fun. Plus it helps with the longer poses.Here are some slightly longer 2-minute poses.