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🕑 Added 2023-08-30 16:41:52 +0000 UTC

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Loish

It really depends on what feels right to you, but 30 seconds is great for training yourself to do those really fast sketches and 1 minute is better for a little more detail! In sessions that I’ve done in the past, we usually started with 30 seconds and built up to 1 minute, 4 minutes, 10 minutes, etc. But starting with the faster ones is the best way to go!

Manju Mariya

Hi, I was wondering how much time should each gesture be sketched in ideally? Like 30 secs to 1 min?

Michael H

Loish—thank you! I remember sketching quick gesture poses based on our live models that were not more than 2-5 minutes long. This was during junior college life-drawing classes. The more poses we did (all on the same sheet of newsprint/often with vine charcoal) the better /more accurate they became. Your gesture sketches are a reminder of how beautifully movement can be conveyed!

Kat

this is so great! thanks you so much for sharing! i will definitely retry and keep mind your suggestions <3

Loish

Thanks! They are just shapes that help further clarify the pose, and give more of a sense of flow to the drawings. So sometimes that’s a shadow, and sometimes it’s a detail of the anatomy. But they’re mainly intended to just elevate these sketches beyond the rough stage and refine them a little further.

mangoburn

Thanks so much Loish, it’s really fun to watch you tackle the same sketches as we did. I want to ask about the “additional shapes” you added around 10:30mins into the video, is there a specific logic to what shapes to add? Some look like shadows-ish, a see a lot of kneecaps… just wondering about this…