Friday, September 18, 2009

Gesturing with Shapes


For this week's gesture drawing class, Louis Gonzales had us draw with thick markers.   His goal was to get us to think in terms of shape and silhouette, instead of line and anatomy.  It was a fun exercise, and one I recommend trying.  The line work in these drawings was done after the fact in an attempt to push and pull the poses... although most of my line work just ended up tracing the shapes.  Im guessing we'll be doing more of these exercises next week.  I'll leave a bunch without lines so you guys can see the purpose of the exercise.



18 comments:

David Bernal said...

Beautiful!! Cant wait 4 more!
and thanks for the advice of the markers, gonna try it out :)

J said...

Such a great exercise! Awesome drawings to boot!
You amaze me.

B! said...

cool exercise

Edward Ernest said...

Awesome stuff here!!! I love your style.I am working my way into the animation buisness. I was wondering if you can check out my blog when you have a chance and comment on my work.

Ryan McLelland said...

Awesome stuff Alex. It's Ryan from Ain't It Cool - get in touch with me...would love to talk about something with ya...rdmclelland@hotmail.com

howardroark said...

fantastic! keep up the good work :)

tunaf1sh said...

these are rad! im totally digging this excercise

Anonymous said...

Your gestures look all the same, enough already!

Your blog is almost nothing but these gesture posts and they look exactly the same.

Alex said...

Amazing work Alex! I'm already trying to incorporate some of the things you are doing into my work. Thanks for posting your sketches!

How heavy was the paper you were working on? And what markers/pens did you use? I ran in to some trouble with the markers tearing up my page a bit. Thanks again!

David Wolter said...

Great gestures! I hope you don't mind - we pinned some of these on the wall for inspiration for our gesture drawing class. Beautiful work!

rad sechrist said...

These are amazing. Huge fan of your stuff.

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Leigh Fieldhouse said...

Hi Alex, I tried giving this exercise a go, I think I am still sticking in too much detail instead of concentrating on the basic shapes.

Is this one of the exercises you give to students who enroll in your schoolism class?

-Leigh

http://leighfieldhouse.blogspot.com/