The concept of "wrong in the right direction" was particularly helpful for my perfectionistic brain. Thank you very much.

I'm definitely going to watch this again over some days with some spaced repetition. It looks like you hit EVERY relevant point in one video, especially that mental stuff toward the end. There really is a point where Confidence has to become a DECISION and not a feeling you wait for.

Thanks Love Life Drawing. Keep bringing your good intuition and dynamics to drawing.🧑‍🎨♾️✍️

Perfect timing because this month of drawing practice is specifically about gesture!

Thank you! For someone whose learning this at an older age, this is helpful! I appreciate that you didn't speed up the drawing portion of the video.

I loved hearing your mark strategy! Sometimes I think just hearting an artist’s *personal* thought process can be sooooo helpful - thank you so much!!!

this was incredibly helpful; thanks! one of my drawing classes jumped into gesture drawing day one with no examples and i felt very unprepared. my teacher just kept telling us to move fast and make big, long lines, but i like this slower, deliberate, form-focused approach a lot better.

This whole video is great, but man, that last tip is so huge and such a big deal to internalize. Love the way you talk about drawing, keep up your fantastic work teaching figure drawing! ❤️

Thank you. You are such an articulate and easy to understand and listen to instructor. I made so many notes and sketches as you explained. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge with us and being so pleasantly encouraging. A fan in Venice, California.

Your video has helped me SOO much. Your tips and perspective are absolutely fantastic and unique. I’ve looked at many videos and the things you focus on truly provide clarity to the practice. Thank you

Thank you so much. I've been struggling with gesture drawings for the past few days and I feel like I made a breakthrough after watching this video. I've still got a long way to go but I feel like I can actually start making progress now.

I found your channel recently and I really appreciate your videos, They're helping me a lot to learn more even when I feel stuck and don't know what to focus on to improve.

This is the best tutorial on gesture drawing I have ever watched !! Thank you so much < 3

4:25 I swear i never felt so called out ever. It sounded like you literally have read my mind and directly answered my thoughts with this little joke.

You're a wonderful communicator and you know how to get to the essence extremely well. Thanks.

Great advice! Plus your drawings are so dynamic i love it

This is a lot of great advice! I've been doing a lot of gesture drawings lately.

You’re such a great teacher☺️

This is definitely one of the best drawing videos I've ever seen

This video gives me a great insight about gesture drawing, and just in time too! I've always been intimidated at the practice since it was so unfamiliar in my realm. I am a little self-critical to what I am able to do, and just play it safe, but that only limits my skill as an artist. Thank you so much for this video!

It's like an artist Guru. Thank you so much.

So helpful for overcoming my chronic overthinking! Thamks

thank you for this video, you explain this so well and your information has already helped me so much

One of the best channels about anatomy and fd!! Awesome

The limiting of types and quantity of marks was just a light bulb moment for me! Brilliant advice, thanks!

Wonderful! Thank you very much!

Great video, great gestures. Definitely saving to come back to again. Thanks, Kenzo 😁

Thank you this video really helped me a lot! This video was really clear and easy to understand! This video really helped me under What I need to work on and helped my understand that ever piece doesnt have to be perfect. Thank you so much!

Thank you so much I'll try these tips tomorrow for sure. 🥰

This was great. Thanks so much! Great tips!

always a wonderful lesson per video.

I need to watch this once a month for 6 months and see if it sticks! Helpful!

THANKS FOR REFERENCES BUD!

minute in and i already love your teaching style SUBBED

Great video thanks

OMG! Once again, everything in this video just hits me loud and sound because I've made same mistakes as described and I also need to push myself as an artist like you described....I look forward to our gesture class coming in early Feb. to explore. So delightful to always be able to go forward with your teachings.

Thanks this is very very helpful

Thanks, very helpful

you're the best. thank you

So very helpful

video için çok teşekkürler. şu anda bir tür bunalım halindeydim ve kendimi kapana kısılmış hissediyordum ama videon beni tekrar düşünmeye itti ve kafamda bazı şeyler yerli yerine oturdu. teşekkürler❤

I totally agree with what you said

sei fantastico! grazie per la tua generosità e l'estrema chiarezza di ogni spiegazione. il problema è che da giorni continuo a guardare i tuoi video e sto tralasciando il lavoro 😅...una specie di dipendenza, perché poi i risultati pratici nel disegno si vedono subito. grazie

Thanks! My drawings are stiff so this will help

Love you!!

This is great. There isn't any new knowledge to be found here as one that has been watching these videos for a year now, but having sound knowledge concisely reinforced every now and then can be just as helpful as stumbling into something new at times. I have a long and interesting relationship with gesture drawing. When I was first encouraged to do gesture drawings years ago, it pretty much discouraged me from continuing to practice for a long time. The idea of doing 30 second drawings that never looked like there were getting better was disheartening, especially when I didn't understand WHY I should be doing them in the first place. It's only been in the past year, thanks to channels like this one and sites like Line of Action, where I started to understand that WHY: gaining the ability to see key areas - or landmarks - for drawing a pose and doing so with increasing ease. It seemed insultingly simple, but it actually helped transform my entire artistic mindset. Since then, gesture studies have become something of my go-to way to practice, but I still struggle with issues that plagued my sessions years ago. I too often get lost when it comes to my mark-making for key areas of the figure, and I still feel like my practice can be a bit mindless at times. That's not to say I haven't improved, but I don't always feel like the time I've put into my gesture drawings are translating into my skill set, even when I occasionally stumble into a gesture drawing I really like. But I do enjoy it now and am more committed to the marathon-like mentality needed to get better. Long(er) story short, this video has helped me to remember that I don't need to rush things. A gesture drawing doesn't HAVE to be a 30 sec to 2 min speedrun; I could probably improve by taking more time to focus on my lines and building confidence in the marks I'm making. As always, I appreciate the work you're doing! P.S.: I'm looking forward to the Fresh Eyes Challenge in January. I actually took part of the initial challenge when it debuted on the site, but never got around to finishing. I think the recent refinements to the posing model should serve to make the practice more enjoyable, and the added live aspect sounds exciting!

Thank you

really neat vid, thanks

Quite a scene you've drawn of those two at 13:07 lol - if I had just started the video here.

Love this. Just found you...😊😊😊😊

Excelente gratoo

It is very good for me to learn illustration art.. Greetings Nugroho from Indonesia

My favorite art teacher from college would have us do all our out-of-class practice with pen on cheap printer paper. He said it built fearlessness because you can't take back a stroke.

우와 감사합니다. 잘 따라 연습하겠습니다.

Hey, I just want to say that these tips are extremely helpful for beginners, thank you so much. A general follow-up (unsure if anyone will read this, given the video's been published year ago): When you talk about intuitive proportion, are there any exercises or advice you have for reliably getting proportions correct? One thing I suffer from is exactly what you'd mentioned-- head too big, legs either too short/too long, arms too long, etc. Just wondering how I might be able to reliably intuit proportions or train myself to better understand that. Any tips appreciated.

Brabo!

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I’ve youre delivery !

Great tips. thanks! I like the poses you draw from. Where do you get those reference images of the models from, please?

Man 1st view... 🤩🤩🤩

I need to hear the part where artists say “ IT TAKES TIME “ because I tend to get very frustrated. But I am getting somewhere 😊

Squash and stretch? I heard that before from the Force drawing channel. Mostly from Mike Mattesi and Swendly Benilla.

Do you have a source for photographs of models posing? I have been unable to find a good source of photographs to practice from. The video BTW is very helpful and well done.

I have an essential question for all of us here. If drawing requires miscle memory does it mean i also have to be bodysmart like an athlete to unleash my talent in creativity? Also will playing physical-skill-based games show me my muscle memory to know if i could draw well or good or terribly?

Hi! I'm a digital artist but do you think doing gesture is on paper is more efficent in building the gesture drawing skill or does it not make a difference? :)

Sir ! From where do i get those reference Photos ?

I need pelvis! I need pelvis! (Pelvis deconstruction, like you did with ribcage)

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Love the videos! This might be asked already, but what pencil are you using? I know it's charcoal pencil, but what brand or grade is it? And the paper is newsprint, correct? :) Thanks for any info in advance!

It really needs a strong intuition to learn figure and it's not easy at all.. It's like when you think you have master some gesture move, then the other you'll go like you never learn it at all.. Like you suddenly forget how to draw.. Also when we want to draw gesture, why is it so hard to visualize in mind, like our mind is very blank..

Is it worth copying another artist's gesture to try to understand the process?

What pencil do you use? because it looks thicker this the pencils I use

like the video

I can see a lot of Steve Huston in your drawings.

As much as I like gesture drawing, much of the world's greatest masterpieces don't display it, or at least it is heavily subdued. Vermeer, Rembrandt, even Norman Rockwell doesn't use it much. It seems that art teachers, and comic book illustrators are where you see gesture the most. Am I wrong? I have seen it displayed on advertising from time to time, such as a sign poster or playbill.

Now, The real hard part is taking ALL , remember all of them and then put it into practive. Then fail into even do the most simple thing correctly.

WHAT

This is not gesture drawing. The true gesture drawing is done within 60s

love this video! as always as other videos

You use a white pencil like to block the black marks you don't like Can you please tell me what it is and where to find it thanks you are very helpful and excellent quality of sharing thanks again