I love this video. Seeing it done slowly first with in depth explanation and then a real quick sketch afterwards was the perfect way to lay out this video, and the shapes annotated over the top of the model were very helpful in getting me to understand how to break down the human body into those simple shapes. As a developing artist I often find it hard to see those basic shapes so this video has helped me a lot. Thanks!

I watch this over and over to remind myself of the process. I always want more. You are an accomplished draftsman and can communicate your method with concise ease. Kudos

Amazing how the model held the same gesture for so long. Incredibly helpful thing to have in a model also this video is exactly what i needed.

The best and professional explanation ever seen. The best XD

This was very well explained. I've been trying to get better at doing gesture drawings for ages, but couldn't find anyone who broke it down into easier to digest steps like this. Thanks very much.

I say with confidence that I’ve watched about 100 of these figure drawing vids. This ONE, without a doubt, has informed more for me than 98% of all of these. Thank you so much! I begin anew🏆👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️

This video deserves WAAAAAY more hits. Thank you for sharing this with us 😀☺️🙃

makes more sense than any other video I've seen on the subject, and I watched ALOT!

Great video! I like how he uses a combination of shapes and lines for creating the gesture. I'm currently having problems with proportions in my gesture drawings. Something that does not happen when I construct the figure out of shapes and volumes as opposed to just lines. Thanks a lot for this video, it's nice to see how different artists approach gesture drawing :)

Thanks for your his video - it was really very helpful indeed. I've worked on figure construction before and on a freer kind of gesture figure drawing but I haven't been able to put them together in real life examples. Now, finally I can see how it goes. It just clicked. Thank-you. You are a gifted teacher as well as artist.

Best explanation of gesture drawing concepts I have seen yet. Thanks a lot.

i’d love to see your approach on drawing someone in an awkward position like sitting or laying down!

I was lucky to have Chris as my teacher at Los angeles citi college. Excellent teching techniques. Byron Ellis

The best explanation I've seen on KZfaq about gesture drawing

This is a very well-paced explanation of a method that gives not only the how but explains WHY you would do things in this particular order. Just enough information phrased just the right way! I won't gesture so haphazardly anymore. Thank you for sharing this!

Very helpful video, wish there were more done by this man.

Yes, thank you sir, very helpful. Now I must practice using the shapes you suggest to describe the model. 🙏🏼

Thanks for this!! It inspires me to keep practicing anatomy drawing.

Great video, really good to see it broken down step by step

Great video, you gave me good tips on how to get better proportions!

Thank you for the mechanical breakdown.

Excelente video. It helps me understand better the gesture drawing. Thanks.

Great video! All we need, is practice!

Amazing video. Wish my teachers had taught me like this.

Excellent video, very helpful. Makes it look so easy though...

Really good video. Thank you. It has helped me a lot.

This video has been VERY useful. Many thanks.

This video is AMAZING! Very nicely shot and edited and very, very, very helpful in that you demonstrated the "whats" and "whys" of your process with angle lines, geometric shapes, and video of your raised pencil over the top of the model to show us what you were looking at and what you were seeing in your mind's eye. This video made sense of a figure/gesture drawing class I took recently that left me more confused and frustrated than instructed. Looking forward to checking out your other videos!

You explain how to draw way better than my professor that I have for 15 weeks.

It looks like just your standard graphite pencil. A soft one, maybe 6b or 8b. And the point is achieved by sharpening your pencil with a knife. I use an X-acto knife. We do this to expose more of the graphite than would be with a traditional pencil sharpener.

Oh my, this is so helpful!

Thank you for an excellent video. Very informative.

loved it. Thank you for sharing.

that pencil measuring thing makes a lot of sense. i can't believe i never thought of doing that, granted i usually sketch from my computer.

Very well explained, thank you.

That's what this is... he's just breaking it down and walking you through the thought process you should have while doing it.

Very helpful approach. Thanks.

Great Video for those who draw from life !

This reminds me of the life drawing classes I took at San Jose State in the early 1970's. Maynard Stewart was the only instructor who was BRAVE enough to teach traditional life drawing! At that time, it was politically incorrect to do so.

Great lesson :D Thanks for the share!!

I've seen so many teachers on KZfaq,but he is the best of the best!

This was VERY helpful 🙌🏽 thank you for posting it. 👏🏽

Nice, keep up the awsome work

that's amazing , thank you very much

Awesome stuff. THank you.

Thanks! This is very helpfull.

This was very helpful You should do more

really helpful. Thank you!

Excellent! Merci beaucoup

this was really useful. I happen to live right down the street from otis - do you have figure/gesture drawing sessions that are open to the public?

This is very good tutorial video what I saw

Very helpful video thank you. I life model when I can but it’s difficult to find artist.

Thank you very much, this is nice.

This is so useful for capturing quick gesture drawings of my cats. I paint exclusively cats (and some other animals).

amazing thanks

thanks...great video..

Thank you for sharing!

very helpful video!

Thanks a lot sir u r the best❤❤❤❤

Beautiest! :-)

Awesome video, thanks a lot :)

thanks master chris !

really healpful...

Very helpful thank you

This is extremely helpful & really well explained. Thank you for uploading this!

how to draw an accurate image. His videos are very hopeful that he will produce many good videos on how to model and measure directly on models. thank you. see you again

Brilliant.

Very useful, thanks.

I think if I were to do this this would take me 15mins but would be more helpful then most other methods in helping me understand proportions and gesture.

It's amazing how still the model is staying.

this is great

i found everything i,was looking for :)

wow great explanation, thanks

for those of you who do not have a model on hand, ikea has these wierd doll thingies you can shape in all sizes. There are also a number of wesites which have practice models for gesture drawing

extremely helpful

Thank you very much

Subed!

Wonderful to watch! Really helpful!

what kind of pencils are you using, and how are you achieving that point?

lord this was helpful

really helpful

this seems so complex

Thank you

好詳細的解說

Thank you sir

Moby sunspot is the music at the start

more please

Does this sequence of steps apply to any pose?

wish i lived closeby..........damn...

I am an art one instructor. Could I have your permission to use this in my course? This is such a great demonstration. *****

hi~~~ i would like to request a video on how to draw a quick gesture in 30 seconds... thank you...

super

Hello.. Great great video. do you know of a good anatomy, proportion figure drawing books i could buy? I just got one online and it is not very good.The one i got is Anatomy for Artists. Quite ordinary and very shy drawings or too robotic feel.

Say if I were to draw a portait of anyone. Most people I see just start drawing instantly the eye/nose/etc. Why is that? And their drawings come out fine. Is this just a way to structure something and to make your proportions proper?

That's pretty much what this video is about. If you learn how to do it slowly like he shows you, then with practice you'll be able to do it quickly, like he then shows afterwards. Follow his instructions carefully, then practice practice practice.

POOPOO. Great video.

his techniche is really good, helful but what to do when you have heavy perspective, so ahrd to learn dis shit

I already draw dozen of gesture quick sketches, but still ugly. With this video, then, I know I really lack of method. Really helpful! Thanks..

one question, when you start drawing gesture drawing do you start with torso and waist or head first?

by practicing with dainty little teacups.