Steemit Daily Drawing Tutorial - Gesture drawings (plus tool)
From the tool's page
One of the biggest lessons I got from a comic artist was to work on gesture drawing. In many things, big trumps small. If you can get the BIG STUFF solid, the tiny details are easier (or just optional)
Gesture drawings are where it's at
Gesture drawings are FAST. WE're talking as low as 15 seconds. You try and evoke a figure in as little time as possible.
Then the time limit goes up, and up and up. Etc.
Then you reset.
Over and over again. Doing these every day helps a lot in terms of composition.
How to use this
Gesture drawings don't have to just be one figure, but an entire scene. In fact, I've read plenty of comics (Hellboy comes to mind) where the level of detail is actually really low. Mike Mignola CAN crank the detail but he often chooses not to.
Awesome tool: Quickposes!!
Quickposes is an online drawing helper that will not only give you sample photos/poses but time you AND track your progress.
Did I mention it's FREE?
It totally rocks. Go do some.
Thanks for the link, I've just filled 6 pages in my sketchbook using it..
For me it is too early ))) But anyway, I will keep it in my mind :-)
actually, this is probably one of BEST exercises to start with
Cool tool.... I'll try it out.
Watching, reading and learning. thank you!
@rampant - New word learned - Gesture drawings - didn't know that's what they're called and they do move!
Will be checking out Quickposes!
Thank you!
It's really great, I use it.
Nice art man!
It's not my art, it's part of the gesture drawing stuff from the tool I linked to. It's there as an example - I'm not that good yet.