Good resources for gesture drawings?

[aqua03]

Hey guys, I realized that it would be good for me to to take gesture drawing more seriously then I have been recently and I'm curious as to what are good resources for poses and practicing Gestures and the like are.

What do you guys use for gesture drawings? Any good pose reference stockpiles or websites made to help with gestures? Anything else i should know as well?

Thanks.

[Rhonder]

One option that I've started using this year is this website:

https://line-of-action.com/practice-tools/figure-drawing

Has good time customization options and a nice variety of models too I've been doing 10 1-minute sketches as warm ups before my art streams, but I think there is value in both trying out longer ones (to get a deeper understanding of what and where everything is) as well as even quicker ones (30 second ones really make you get the big shapes and motions down without having time to think about it too much).

[migxmeg]

Right there with you!

@Legendofgenii posted this one a while ago and it's a go-to for me.

AdorkaStock User Profile | DeviantArt

Other than that I search Pinterest for skateboarding or dancing images when I want a wacky gesture.

Edit: @Rhonder bookmarked!! Awesome.

[Black_Conscious]

I actually had to look that up because I never knew what it meant I only heard of it lol

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Any good pose reference stockpiles or websites made to help with gestures?

Most of my reference comes from Pinterest if I come by a picture I'll save it in my board , lol I never realized I was doing a ton of gestures
So yeah pinterest helps me a lot when it comes to that

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[Legendofgenii]

I’ve got a good one, but it’s mostly nudes. Is that ok?

[aqua03]

What is it called?

[rajillustration]

There is Croquis Cafe (which is a youtube channel) and I took the Schoolism course on Gesture drawing which was pretty good--it comes with a bunch of gestures built in, and it has a series of lessons by a great teacher if you don't really know the ropes. https://www.schoolism.com/lp/gesture-drawing-alex-woo/ It costs money, though (and the price went up, I took this when it was 15$ a month. The lessons are short enough you only need to buy one month. Way cheaper than other industry art classes that are 400$ each.)

What I like doing in non-pandemic times is to sit at a cafe or library and sneakily draw people out of the corner of my eye. Nowadays there's still the option of going to the park and drawing people walking by. It naturally gives you a pretty short time limit. Plus, you'll get really good at drawing people's dogs.

[Legendofgenii]

Here it is: https://www.human-anatomy-for-artist.com/

[aqua03]

Plus, you'll get really good at drawing people's dogs.

Always the best plus.

(Maybe I'll do that when things clear up around here. Which hopefully they should be soon enough.)

[Teira]

Pintrest has a ton of good resources for gesture and anatomy and all that. I use it all the time.

[TedGravesArt]

I use this one too, was just about to post it up here. Fantastic tool! 60 secs per photo, do 10-20 mins before every session until things start flowing right. Helps immensely when I'm trying to pencil a new issue after 1.5 months of ink and color.

[hjpetersonauthor]

I honestly use a lot of sports photography for gesture drawing - especially dance and gymnastics. I think you find a lot more fluid, dynamic poses doing that. Idk why, but a lot of the stock photos I see feel kind of off to me. I also get a lot less naked ones - I don't care that much, but I draw around my super conservative family a lot, and I don't feel like explaining what I'm doing lol.