Time: 30 seconds- 2mins
Per drawing
The main purpose for this type of drawing is to help develop an artists ability to draw human/animals when in motion. The idea is not to take too long with the drawings, sometimes as little 30 seconds, sometimes 2 minutes. It can be done using a model, but often the artist will just draw people going about their day, in the street, at a venue, or even athletes.
For this task find a spot where you can watch other people. It could be a corner of the classroom, it could be a cafe in town or out in the street (my favourite is in an art gallery). Pick a person and try and draw their gesture/posture/movement before they leave your sight. Sometimes you will not have time to draw all of them, so you will need to make a snap decision about which aspect you want to focus upon- their arms, their posture/back positioning or their leg stance to name a few. These drawings are often studies that can be referred back to when creating a more finished piece of work, but you can also build upon them in your own time to turn them into finished pieces. You could even draw a detailed background first in one medium (perhaps a street in watercolour) and then go over the top with drawings from life (gesture drawings done in pen). What would that contrast say about the subject matter you are depicting? How else could you use gestural drawing?
Below is an example of gestural drawing done by Rembrandt. Here his quick sketching was trying to ascertain the posture of the two adults, their arm positions, and the size of the child.
(Rembrandt 1635-1637(no copyright))
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