I wanted to play with having the figure slowly start to fade out the further I went down the page. The first figure starts out really strong and noticeable. By the time you get to the third figure all there is a couple of lines shaping the form. I did a couple of test runs on newsprint paper before I moved onto the big sheets of color paper. Lastly I played with watercolor and cante crayon.

Here I wanted to play with the color black and other colors. I wanted to play with figure and dress on the same page. By switching up charcoal with cante crayon. I also wanted to pair the movement of the figure and dress up together. Im not really sure if something is standing out to me or not. I do know I really like the results of using the cante crayon. There is something about that color that really stands out to me more so then the charcoal.

I stumbled upon a youtube video called danza della vergine suicdia. That played images of a women in this beautiful white dress dancing and I just had to gesture draw her. I soon began to realize that I was more drawn to the dress and her movement then anything else. So I decided to gesture draw it with cante crayon and loved the results.

Color Figured Gesture Drawing!

I soon got really burnt out with working in ink and black and white. So I decided to move on to watercolor, colored paper and acrylic paint. Before I moved onto color I decided to do another life size gesture figure drawing using a sponge and ink. Then I decided to move onto watercolor and acrylic paint. I took my finger and dipped in acrylic paint and applied it to the paper. I wanted to try using watercolor and found out that I loved it more more then ink. I felt that it allowed me less control then the ink. Which allowed me to relax and to let go with out worrying. I wanted to move from the newsprint and try working with working with watercolor on colored paper. I found to be that watercolor on colored paper really stood out to me more so then the watercolor on newsprint. there was something about it that drew me in. I finally feel like I had a break though with the color and the gesture drawing. You could really feel the weight and movement.

Last week I was in LA and I completely forgot to bring a pad of drawing paper and charcoal. I had so many opportunities to gesture draw my teammates when we had down time. This week I gesture drew figures from Muybridge video. I did roughly ten on newsprint paper using different size brushes and trying very hard not to have my figures just be made up of contour lines. This time I started on the middle of the figure and worked my way out. I also tried not to pick up my brush unless I needed to dip it in more ink. Lastly I did a couple of gesture figures on colored papered. Im not really sure what to think about them. The ink dint appear as dark as it did on the newsprint which was a bit frustrating.