Simply, a piece of drawing paper… something to sketch with… and a model or photograph to reference. You don’t need a lot of fancy items to create a gesture sketch. It can also be of animals and other moving things!
These sketches are not intended to be fully finalized, perfect drawings… rather, more of a skill building approach in observing the human form and its essential curves.Ī gesture sketch is often of the human body, but can also be parts of the body like the hand or foot. Gesture sketches often range form 15 seconds to 2 minutes. I tell my students that a successful gesture sketch is able to capture the overall vibe of the movement with a minimal amount of lines in the shortest time possible. My goal with this blog is to give beginning artists an introduction into gesture sketching, provide some tips that have helped me, and share some helpful video resources for artists to practice their skills.Ī gesture sketch is a quick sketch that captures the essence of the pose. I wish I would have started exploring figure drawing way before college, but I have no regrets with my own art journey as it’s brought me to where I am today. By drawing hundreds of quick gesture sketches of the models, I quickly saw an improvement in my observation skills as an artist and my ability to draw the human body in variety of movements. My first experience with gesture sketching wasn’t until my college figure drawing class.
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