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.

Continuation of Gesture Figure Drawing

After last weeks critique I have decided to continue to gesture draw the figure because I feel that the drawings could be pushed more and I want to finish working life size. This time I want to start from the inside of the figure and work out. I think looking at some gesture drawings of the figure will also help. Im thinking of also maybe varying the thickness of the lines and hopefully that will show more movement and weight. Lastly shortening the time to 30 seconds or less so it will force me not to get stuck in doing contour lines.

I plan on another fifth teen gesture figure drawings on newsprint paper just to get warmed up and back into the swing of things. Then move on to color paper with ink and cante crayons. I have scraps of canvases and Im thinking of also trying that with ink. Then Lastly I want to work life size with using ink and a sponge and then changing it up and switching to house paint.

Round Two of Gesture Drawing

I continued to work from Muybridge videos. After doing a variety of different sizes last time. I decided to continue with doing the smaller gesture drawing because they came out more gestural for me last time. I also tried doing a life size one as well and that came out pretty well. I wished I did a second one of those. With the life size one I felt like I was my whole arm and was varying the brush strokes.

Figure Gesture Drawings

I had a lot of fun doing these figure gesture drawings. I ended up watching Muybridge videos and drawing from the models. I feel like I was really able to let go this time. I could not even think even if I wanted to. The more I did the easier it got. I only had enough time to react. I feel like some of the gesture drawings came out better then others. The smaller the paper was I feel like the more gestural the figures were.