Gesture drawing

Originally posted on

20/10/2012 

My morning started early enough for me and my granddaughter to drive to a farm not too far away where I spent a few hours gesture-drawing with a group of like-minded individuals.  I loved it!  :-)   

Wikipedia:
... "Drawings longer than two minutes are usually not considered gestures, as they inevitability allow the artist more time to measure and plan the drawing, or to begin to define the form with modeling. Once the artist begins measuring, erasing, shading or otherwise improving the drawing with a second pass, they have ceased to gesture draw and begun rendering.  They will be improving the complexity of their current drawing, but they are no longer practicing their ability to draw correctly in from an instant impression."...

Then we proceeded to a life-drawing session and although the measuring part of a two hour pose is a little bit too left-brain for my taste I was happy with my rendering of our model.  

2 Responses to Gesture drawing

	Julie ford oliver  via reynelkruger.com	17 months ago
	Just returned from a figure workshop where we started the first half hour each day with gesture drawings. FUN!

	Reynel Kruger  via reynelkruger.com	17 months ago
	It is so good to see you here Julie. Thank you for your comment. :-)