These are from last month, but I never posted them. The site I use for online gesture drawing has changed its name and is now Line of Action. I began with 20 second poses and finished with two minute poses.
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Ballet Gestures
I thought I'd push my gesture skills a bit and try drawing from moving figures, so I pulled up some ballet videos on YouTube. Very difficult, but good fun!
Collie Character
There's been idea in my head that I've wanted to storyboard for a while. I've begun drawing thumbnails, but before going any further today I decided to get down some rough character designs. A dog features in this story, specifically a Border Collie, so I did some...
Life Drawing, 14th March
Life Drawing, 7th
These drawings are from earlier this month. Another excellent model! I struggled after the break - most of the drawings below are from the first half.
Life Drawing, 24th
I moved in late November last year and it's meant I haven't been to a life drawing class since then. Thankfully earlier this week I was able to go again!
The Life of Birds
Today I attempted some gesture drawing from an episode of The Life of Birds. As I reached the end of Planet Earth II last year I realised I really should have had my sketchbook out. It's good training for cafe gesture drawing, which I'm normally pretty hopeless at. As...
Animation Base Camp – Bee
If you haven’t seen my previous storyboards from the Animation Base Camp, you may want to start here or here. The story revolves around odd-couple animals at a therapist’s office. The scene below, featuring a bee, was worked on by several different people throughout...
Gestures
Some more gestures from the other day. The hands and feet were all 30 second poses, the figures were all one minute poses.