Hampton, part 3
My figure drawing work continues. This week’s work spans two segments of the book, so I apologize for the big swing. In these first couple, we’re rounding up the gesture section. Gesture drawings are about curve, animation, capturing the spirit of a movement. These drawings should be fast, and should never look stiff. Mine still look stiff at times, but I can see progress in my work at the beginning of the book already.
The next section starts anatomy lessons. In a way, anatomy works against gesture. Gesture is flow; anatomy is rigid and constraining. But knowing anatomy will help locating landmarks on a figure, getting proportions correct, drawing something that looks human.
