How to SEE THE GESTURE in Any Pose (one tip)

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Published 2022-03-25
This one tip will help you to see the gesture in any pose and to be able to draw it! Gesture Drawing helps you to unlock your drawing, and to discover your own drawing language, watch this video to find out how.

In this video:
- why gesture is so vital to your figure drawing
- ways to find and see the gesture in any pose
- how to use gesture in your lines and marks
- how to use your knowledge of anatomy to see rhythm and movement

Here are the links to the photo reference I used in this video:
Pose1:
i.pinimg.com/originals/43/f9/03/43f90314f6bfbfa92d…
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Pose 2:
i.pinimg.com/originals/43/f9/03/43f90314f6bfbfa92d…


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All Comments (21)
  • @w00olf
    Thank you so much SIOBHAN TWOMEY This video is very useful for me. This video has allowed me to understand and learn a lot Your style of explaining is very simple and easy to understand Once again Thank you very much I hope you continue to make such useful videos
  • @salviadorrii
    "...Artistic creation isn't a set of rules you apply to your work, it's a process." Thanks for the reminder I lose sight of that sometimes.
  • @1southpaw2
    Much appreciated. I have always struggled to draw human anatomy. Decided to revisit the subject and your videos help. I have been struggling with gesture drawing. Breaking down of forms with your visiuals, encourages me to start gesture drawings. Thank you.
  • @hikari1360
    I only recently started drawing again after nearly a decade, and I felt so stuck with gestures. I kept getting overwhelmed with where the right place to start drawing was and trying to keep everything proportional and inside my guides. I was so frustrated when time kept running out before I finished laying down a rough draft. Even giving myself more time to finish the drawing didn't help because it took so long for a single pose and it looked so stiff. I realize now that I was afraid to mess up, and that's why I hesitated so much. Realizing that it doesn't have to be "right" and that I can start anywhere and feel my way through the pose helped a lot! I've been binging all your videos and I feel like I'm finally having fun again!
  • @vril7340
    omg this is so... great, you make it sound and look really easy tysm for this<3
  • @chekovrules
    This is great, I especially loved seeing the demonstration of finding the different motion in the pose. It was really helpful to see it overlaid directly on the reference, and then to see how you translated that motion to the gesture drawing itself. I also appreciate the clarification on line of action, that made a lot more sense than how I've seen it described sometimes. I put some more of your tips into action last night while doing my daily practice and that made things much more fun!
  • @user-mw7nc5gl9q
    omg this is so helpful for me。。。thank you for posting this video!!😊😊
  • @seagabri
    Thanks. Nice voice, selection of music and of course the drawings. 🌹
  • @ianhodgson8154
    It was good to see the reference images as you were working. Learning a lot from your videos, Thank-you.
  • @sorensnowhere
    i absolutely love this. i was too focused on the line of action and didn't think about the movements of individual limbs.
  • I just want to thank you so much for this video! My mind has been CLOUDED recently when I do gesture drawings, but when I watched your video if made more sense to me and because of that I believe im getting the process! Thank you so much, it really helped me alot too with your demonstrations!
  • Hey buddy. I have to check out your drawing prowess… again.🧑‍🎨♾️✍️