Today I experimented with thicker strokes... ehh.... It had it's ups and downs. I think broader strokes can work for some things, but sometimes I need my modeling strokes to define form... I focused more on a new technique and a lot of these I feel lost some form as a consequence.

Today I also decided I am going to start observe each gesture and make a note of the most notable things I struggled with and that I need to work on with the next gesture.

Practice practice practice

Here are more gesture drawings that I did at the park. Like usual, these were all mostly done in less than 10 seconds. Cept for the Tree.

Enjoy.

A good day

Today I did gestures of a nude female model. This week my gestures I feel improved a bit! I really combined different elements of different techniques and did my best to pull everything I know together. I really feel like on page 2 that my gestures really came together.

Gesturing can be great fun when the artist can really feel and understand the forms and volumes of the human body. It is like rhythm.

Practice at the park

Good, bad, ugly, its all here on my sketchpad. When things at home get rough, it's great to go to the park and ease your troubles with some gesture drawings!

All of these were done in less than thirty seconds. In all honesty, they were of people running the track, so most of it was done in just a few seconds. Roughly 5 or so. Obviously made for complete practice and not beauty.

I got bored of the BORING people at the park with their repetitive boring poses today... so this tree proved to be more interesting than any of the lowly humans could ever prove to be.

The tree was drawn in 5 minutes. Gestured roughly of course, done mostly without looking at the paper.

Enjoy~

More Subway gestures

Here are more gesture drawings! All done on the subway in ranging from 30 seconds to a minute each. Simple quick gestures made for practice, not for beauty.

Enjoy~ also watch for some new illustrations! I am actually gonna start filling my gallery with STUFF! YEAH! ^^

Subway gestures

My first time riding using public transportation to get to class! It was indeed a nightmare my first time, but I am sure it will get better as time goes on.

Most artist however, speak of how much doodling, gestures, and ideas are all come up with on the subway. No joke... It is like the artistic inspiration breeding ground!

So I tried taking my own little stab at it. And I can definitely see why! So many people standing and doing different things. Makes for some very gestural drawings. So today I got a few, some I didn't finish, others I did. Most of these were under 60 seconds. A few 30 and under. Very awesome practice.