Gestures

Heyo,

I always lament the fact that I don't get to do enough life drawing, especially gestures, and I decided to do something about it. Because I can't always fit a class into my schedule I have started using a stopwatch and good fashion/girlie pictures from magazines like Maxim and FHM. This was I can do a bunch of quick sketches in the morning as a warm up. This allows me to get in the practice I wanted, but because I can do it at home it also makes it easier work digitally too (I doubt I will ever be able to bring my cintiq into a life drawing class.)

Anywho, it is pretty cool so far, it makes a lot of the things about life drawing that always annoyed me easier. Like you can fit as many drawings as possible on the page, and recompose the page so that each sketch plays off each other. Because you aren't in a class you can redo a pose if the first run through didn't turn out, or decide mid-drawing that you want this to me a 3 minute pose instead of 30 seconds. Lastly, I always felt guilty about going through so much paper in a life drawing class, this way I don't have to bother.

I know the point of gesture drawings is to learn to capture poses with a sense of spontaneity and having all the amenities that working digitally affords me could take away from that, but I find not having to worry about these things let me relax more and work more loosely, so I figure the pros outweigh the cons at least for the time being.

these poses are between 30 seconds and a minute.