With this type of drawing, describing shape is less
important than showing the action or the dynamics of the pose. Gesture drawings
are not drawings of objects as much as they are of movement,weight and posture.
Gesture drawing is spontaneous and created quickly. In your Journal please
expound on the what you were to learn as explained in class (learning
objectives) in addition write about the experience of drawing gestural figures,
how did it affect your perception of the human figure. You will only have 7
days to respond to this journal.
Gesture drawing was a very unique experiences—most
of my life I was told to pay attention to details, focusing on the finer
aspects of my drawings. That is not to say gesture drawing completely abandons
detail, but rather, emphasis is shown, as described, to movement, weight,
posture, and proportion. Contour lines are not as defined as in other drawings.
Often times, artists use this method to warm up, just as one would in sports,
to get a feel for proportion, and to build muscle memory. In class, we were
told that there are three phases to gesture drawing. Phase one is more or less
quickly drawn “scribbles,” where the artist usually takes less than a minute to
complete the drawing. Phase two starts to include contour lines to get the
figure of the body, but these are free flowing and still are not very defined.
Phase three, the last step, is a full definition of the figures.
The experience was very fast paced—we were given
only two minutes to complete our drawings. My first drawing (included in this
journal entry), I was unable to get to the arms of the figure as I was not
acclimated to such fast paced drawing, but I ended up getting it near the end
of the class. Of course, I started out with a wire along the legs of the figure
as taught and started to put in bubbles, which was difficult for me at first.
The second drawing I was able to complete—there are minimal bubbles, but that
was because the wire (the arch of the back) was so big. This assignment was
great as I was able to pick up a new technique to add to my (small) repertoire or
drawing techniques—I had no idea that artists had a “warm up” activity. Also,
it will help me in future drawings where proportion is necessary to get the final
drawing to look like the subject.
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