So glad it was useful! Let me know if there's anything else you'd like me to address in a future video :)

@@CarolinPeters If possible could you make a video about improving your shading techniques.

@@michaelebron1280 Sounds like a good one. I'll put it on my list! Thanks for the suggestion.

That's a great thing to be working on. Let me know how it goes! Glad that this was useful.

Hey, I'm so glad you found this to be useful! Let me know if there are any other drawing questions that you have. I'm always happy to help :)

Aww, thanks. So happy they’re helpful for you!

You're so welcome. I'm happy it helped. What are you studying gestures for if I may ask?

So happy you're enjoying the videos!

Thank you! Glad it's educational :)

That's a natural thing to do, and certainly something worthwhile to pursue in longer drawings. But for short gestures we can do without them 😊 Glad you found this useful!

So glad it was useful for you. Let me know if you have any other drawing questions for me. I'm always happy to help

You're so welcome!!!

Glad it was helpful!

Excellent! So glad it was helpful for ya :)

So glad it was useful :)

Glad it's been helpful for you

So glad you like the videos! Let me know if you have any drawing questions you'd like me to answer in future videos!

Your so welcome ☺️

Good luck with your studies. Glad this was helpful!

Excellent! Have fun!

Love to hear that! Let me know if you have any drawing related questions. I'm always happy to help.

Oh that's so great to hear :) You're welcome!

Awesome. So happy to hear it's useful for you!

Good luck with your practice. So happy my video helped you move forward!

Amazing! So glad you're benefitting from my material. Let me know if you have any drawing questions burning on your mind!

Happy to hear it! Got any questions for me?

So glad this was useful for you :)

Yay, so happy it helped!

So happy to hear that the video helped you out!

You're so welcome. Glad it was helpful

You're so welcome, I'm glad it helped!

Yes! I hope it'll help!

Yay, so glad you enjoyed it! (Sorry for the late reply, I'm just catching up on a bunch of comments I've missed.)

Yay! So happy to hear that. You're welcome!

Yay, thanks so much! It makes me happy to hear this. Here's something slightly different. I’m currently conducting research on how I can best support people in their drawing growth journey. If you’re open to it, I would really appreciate it if we could hop on a quick call and I could ask you a few questions. Let me know either way! If not, no worries and I wish you all the best. You can find open call (Zoom) times here: calendly.com/curastudios/30min

Awesome. Keep up the good work!

So glad it's helpful for you!

So glad it helped you out!

So glad this was what you were hoping for :)

Happy drawing to you!

You're so welcome!

So glad you're already doing this! It's best to know where you want to go before you get started, right?! Happy drawing to you, and let me know if you have any other drawing questions for me.

@@CarolinPeters I actually do, though I don't know if they're a bit too oddly specific and might seem like I could be overthinking, but guess it's worth a shot! First off, I wanted to ask if you know what would be a globally accepted definition for a gesture? By that I mean, every teacher really explains gesture in different ways and often times I find their suggestions contradictory, while all of them are great at the craft, so I find it hard to figure out who should I rather follow. An example would be Proko, here on youtube, telling us to focus on the flow of the shapes and forms in space while, Glenn Vilppu for instance, tells us to focus on guiding the eye and try not to separate shapes at that stage at all. It really shows in the gestures they draw as well, completely different, but each beautiful in their own way. So maybe you have a few thoughts on this, or maybe have any source that could be considered "barebones gesture" while everything else is the style that those masters draw gesture with. (Again might just be me overthinking it too, so maybe you could tell me that :D) Another thing I was curious about, is if you know how could I replicate traditional, bold pencil lines with digital medium. I really can't hold the stylus the same way I do regular pencil, not to mention our pencils don't have 10000 pressure levels, but I know a lot of masters draw practically the same way regardless if it's traditional or digital, maybe you have a few tips for that as well? Thank you a lot in advance!

​@@eshlost5604 Hi again! I love this question about a universal/barebones gesture definition and how to execute that practically. For the execution part I'll have to make a video to demonstrate but let's get started with the beginning part of the question. A universally acceptable definition for what a gesture drawing is, and what it's for goes something like this: To capture the gesture of a subject (figure, animal, still-life or landscape) means to capture its essence. Another way of saying that would be to capture the most simple elements about it,i.e. how big is this thing, which way is it leaning, what direction is most dominant about it, and how does it relate to its smaller, less dominant parts within it. That's the "what it is". The what's it for question will lead to various stylistic choices. If you're interested in communicating movement and liveliness you'll go with either Stan's or Glenn's recommendations, if you're drawing the gesture to get better at judging where the three major masses fall in relation to each other, so basically as a reduced anatomical practice exercise, then you may result with more of stick figure and circular shape looking result. The question like this isn't "who is right and which one should I practice" but instead your question is more useful when you ask yourself "what am I using this gesture exercise for to get better at?" Does that make sense? Practicing gesture drawing is a tool to get better at various things, like connecting disparate parts into unified whole, capturing movement, judging the three major masses, translating a pose with the least amount of time and effort,... The look your results yield will be determined by what your main focus was. Glen and Stan each have their respective preferences for what they focus on and this has yielded their unique to them styles. SO ask yourself, what do I want to practice most in my next set of gestures? Do that over and over again and see where the journey will take you. As I said, I'll do my best to make a video with some visual examples so you can put that into practice soon. About your second question, unfortunately I'm the wrong person to ask as I rarely draw digitally. Maybe ask Jens Claessen on IG. His work looks to me like he has a nicely dialed in technique. Best of luck and thanks for the great question!

@@CarolinPeters Thank you a lot for a thorough answer like that. I'll be re-reading it a lot now from time to time :) Another great thing to return to when I inevitably dive deep into such thoughts. Once again, great videos and I'm really happy to have found out about your channel, keep up the amazing work!

@@eshlost5604 You're so welcome!

OMG, it can be so overwhelming in the beginning when you realize how ny different ways of doing things there are out there. Remember there's no ONE way, just different options to get you to different results. I'm happy that my explanation helped in lifting the confusion a bit. Keep going and keep asking questions. Happy drawing to you!

@@CarolinPeters Thank you😊 I am actually so happy to get yr reply😅

Aww, yay. So happy it was helpful. What other drawing questions do you have on your mind?

@@CarolinPeters well, currently I have a difficult time drawing faces that are proportional to the head and to the body. This happens only for full body drawings, portraits are more or less normal.

@@dr-johngy-brongen I get that. That's a pretty common issue. It usually has to do with how you're set up when you draw or with where your eyes go when you draw. In terms of set-up, that's an easy fix. We tend to distort the figure accidentally when we have our sketchbook flat on our lap or flat on a table. The distortion happens because our line of sight isn't perpendicular to our page. It's better to have your page on a drawing board that you can lean against an easel or the edge of your desk so you can maintain that 90 degree angle of your sight-line to your page. The second reason for accidentally distorting the scale of the head to the body is because we don't move our eye intentionally, and instead let them operate on auto-pilot. This is totally normal as a lot of instructors fail to mention the importance of becoming aware of how we use our eyes. It's important to remember that we can control if we zoom in and out, which will be our best defense against distortion. The distortion goes unnoticed if we let our eyes stay zoomed in too much on the parts. Instead we need to build in a regular intervals during which we pause and zoom out to a) see the entirety of our drawing so far, and b) compare back and forth between our subject and our drawing. These two things will make it much less likely that your heads end up too big or small for the rest of the body. If you haven't already feel free to sign up for my free Figure Drawing How and Why Mini-course. I'm sure you'll pick up some more useful insights there: artisapractice.com/figure/ Happy drawing to you :)

@@CarolinPeters ok, i'll check it out! thanks for detailed explanation, yes i think i got a tendency to focus on one body part at a time, gonna need to pause and view the full picture more often

Aww, that's wonderful to hear! Glad it helped you out. Do you have any other drawing questions for me?

@@CarolinPeters No I don't have any questions but thanks for asking

@@raven2.084 NP. You know where to find me if anything comes to mind. Who's your teacher?

@@CarolinPeters Mr Hughes is my teachers name I live near Peterborough but not in Peterborough

@@raven2.084 Very cool. Tell Mr Hughes hello and I'm wishing you all my best for your future drawings :)

Yay, that makes me so happy to hear :) Even though I'm currently taking a break because I'm creating a new program I will get back to creating videos in a few months again. Let me know if there's anything you'd want me to cover

Thanks ✌️

So glad this was helpful for you :)

You're so welcome! Is there anything else you need help with?

@@CarolinPeters No thank you, I think I’m fine at the moment. But I appreciate you asking! 😊

Good luck with the scholarship!

@@CarolinPeters thank you !

Glad you had a valuable moment of insight! Keep up the good work!

Hey Dustin, so nice to hear from you! Frustratingly enough there is no one-size-fits-all answer to this question. It all depends on your drawing goals, your time availability, your urgency of growth and how you best process information. How satisfied are you with your growth process so far? Do you feel like your 20 minutes a day are leading to improved gestures or do you find yourself repeating what you do over and over, not seeing significant changes from week to week? Learning to assess your work and your growth are just as important as the actual time you put into drawing things. This is a much longer conversation. Making a personally tailored game plan to helps artists truly understand drawing so they can bring their inner images onto the page is what I do for a living. If you're interested I think that this masterclass may turn you in the right direction: draw.clickfunnels.com/seperate-webinar-opt-in-page1666717801595 Happy drawing to you!

Haha, I'm sure it looks better than that. You know, it's totally normal not to be able to " hit" the right line, right away, instead of doing the same exact one over and over again, though, I invite you to think of them as "searching" lines. This becomes possible if you slow down the speed with which you draw. Good luck and happy drawing!

Thanks! I'll give it a go. :⁠-)

Hi there. Are you talking about that first curvy line I drew? That's the line of action, which doesn't describe a body part, it rather describes the flow of direction of the most defining body parts of the given pose. Most of the times this will include the torso, as the torso it the origin of all action. Any more questions?

Sorry to hear that. Yes, it can be quite confusing in the beginning.

@@CarolinPeters thank you , And thank for the series. Any tips for progressing gesture drawing?

Sorry, I'm just seeing this. Not necessarily, you'll just want to be open to having slightly different looking results. I say, give it a go without trying to control the trembling. Focus on staying relaxed and being ok with the trembles. It'll result in drawings that are uniquely yours

Lol, that is weird. I don't do well digitally. I prefer the real paper under my pencil.

You'll want to avoid doing what I demonstrated on the right and orient on what I'm demonstrating on the left.

Je suis désolé. Je souhaite que il était meilleur!

I'm so happy this was helpful. I know how pervasive the chicken scratch is. It's a hand-eye trust issue. There are some mark making exercises you can do to practice letting go of the chicken scratch. I'll make a note to myself to make a video about it when I get back to filming in September.

Lol, it took a while to get there, but I can teach you ;) What are your drawing goals?

Hi Sea-Ra, I know how frustrating stiff drawings can be. I wrote out an answer that was much too long for the KZfaq comment box. Watch for this week's video in which I'll deliver a comprehensive reply to your comment :)

Hey, realizing this is the first step toward getting better. Gestures look so easy but they're actually quite challenging. So don't feel bad, just keep working toward improving. Good luck and let me know if you have any drawing questions for me!

You know I was looking at you, John ;)

I know how frustrating that feeling is. I've been there myself. You can try and watch this video, which is much more in depth about what the whole point of a gesture drawing actually is: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bZiTqdx1seDMZo0.html And sometimes you just need someone else to explain the same thing in a different way. Not all teachers are for all people. I hope you'll find some explanations that will open this drawing thing up for you eventually. Don't give up. I'm cheering you on!

@@CarolinPeters Thank you very much Carolin! You're a god-send, I need the first principles behind it. I've been told I don't see the S shapes intuitively. It's more an issue of perception, I have since tried to check out other videos, they've also helped me understand some of the fundamentals, although, I still struggle with seeing anything other than the outlines.

@@colt9948 Yes, it's a tricky thing because we have to learn to see in a different way from how we look around the world when we're just going about our normal business. That retraining will often feel alien and awkward, not because we're bad at drawing or because we shouldn't do it, but simply because our brain has had lots of training looking around the way we always do and very little training in this new, artistic seeing. Therefore the synaptic connections are stronger in our habitual seeing and very weak in the artistic way of seeing. I'm saying all of this to let you know that you are not defective or that there's nothing wrong with your perception, it's simply very difficult for an untrained brain to see in the artists way, just how it is very difficult for an untrained body to perform precise, athletic movements. Keep practicing in a focused way and things will change for you, too. Wishing you all the best!!!

So glad it helped you out!