Share Your Gestures

nostalgicroxas 2018-12-21 23:32:26 UTC #1

I was offering some advice about art and one told me to open it up as a thread all it's own! So here it is!
Please share pictures of your gestures! I'd love to see what people come up with. Gestures, whether you're doing them or looking at them, are a great art exercise, tool and reference/resource.

SHARE YOUR GESTURESSSSS

What is a gesture?
The idea of the gesture is to draw the head, spine and the immediate body part that you think is important.
Only, super quickly - like 3 seconds, 10 seconds... There's long gestures and short gestures - the iconic ones are usually 3~10 seconds.

Resources
There's two sites that are decent with timers you can try.
http://reference.sketchdaily.net/en1
https://line-of-action.com/practice-tools/figure-drawing

Tagging: @Birdwrong @TeoChhim

dawgofdawgness 2018-12-21 23:36:03 UTC #2

I have a Pinterest board with 150 different poses if anyone wants it

DiegoPalacios 2018-12-21 23:57:18 UTC #3

That was pinteresting!

Jenny-Toons 2018-12-22 00:06:46 UTC #4

Did some random gestures. Some are more detailed than others cuz I like doing those 1 minute gestures XD

nostalgicroxas 2018-12-22 01:19:06 UTC #5

Those are sooooo pretty - I love the ballet; reminds me of ice skating a lot.
Also...

Summary

This totally looked like a butt to me for a solid minute

Birdwrong 2018-12-22 20:12:25 UTC #6

Keeping this bookmarked! <3

feuersichel 2018-12-22 23:35:38 UTC #7

I think this doesn't truely fit the gesture term, as I used simple forms underneath. But still it was a good practice.
And here is an webside I use for training ^^ https://www.quickposes.com/en (The gestures in the sketch are without reference though)

nostalgicroxas 2018-12-23 02:28:09 UTC #8

I did a few from my mind, free form. I like that one that looks like the person's looking at a watch.

nathanKmcwilliams 2018-12-23 02:59:53 UTC #9

This is a great idea for a topic. I don't take a lot of time to practice this particular exercise. Maybe I will now.
BTW everyone has uploaded some great stuff so far!

nostalgicroxas 2018-12-23 03:56:38 UTC #10

It's all about not thinking and being fluid. I think? I know my art went from being chunky and blocky to a lot more fluid poses after I started doing these.

mrtoontastic 2018-12-23 04:13:29 UTC #11

Ooh, gestures! Yeah!

Oh, and if you're curious, here's the finished product of this~

storytimebiondi 2018-12-23 07:07:02 UTC #12

A lot of sword play saved for someone who does a comic about jazz haha!

nostalgicroxas 2018-12-23 07:11:12 UTC #13

Hey, Saxophones can be held like swords I suppose!!

storytimebiondi 2018-12-23 07:12:56 UTC #14

A blunt instrument of deadly caliber!

nostalgicroxas 2018-12-23 07:17:15 UTC #15

Fantastic- time to draw someone's demise through a musical instrument! I smell a new mystery novel in the making.

dawgofdawgness 2018-12-23 07:33:07 UTC #16

I just mentally replace them with drum sticks

I tried that once! I choked

storytimebiondi 2018-12-23 07:36:52 UTC #17

Now I want a saxaphone that shoots deadly drum sticks like some sort of twists blow-gun!

nostalgicroxas 2018-12-23 07:39:16 UTC #18

@dawgofdawgness @storytimebiondi I hereby order one of you two to doodle gestures of this silliness before it gets off topic lol! I would myself, but I'm logging off to sleep now.

dawgofdawgness 2018-12-23 07:39:26 UTC #19

I tried drawing some gesture digitally

Omg I would love this, but it would be completely useless because the drumsticks would just shoot diagonally upwards.. Although it would make a great weapon for hunting birds

nostalgicroxas 2018-12-23 07:40:27 UTC #20

I imagine the sax would operate like a cornicopia greek horn thing where you just aim it and the stuff would shoot out?