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My gesture drawings

By Swen | Sunday, June 26, 2016 at 8:27am
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The Daily Sketch

Hi everyone,

I was inspired to share some of my daily gesture drawings. This used to be one of the aspects of figure drawing and character design I struggled with the most, so I went on a journey to master it. During that journey I quickly fell in love with act of capturing the life of the human figure on paper and nowadays gesture drawing is one of my favorite activities.

For more of my work you can look here: http://www.swendly.com/gesture-drawing-demonstrations.html

Enjoy and any questions or comments are welcome.

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Submitted by Swen on

Many artists have asked me how I reached my current skill level in gesture drawing. The motivation to go on a journey to master this subject came because of the frustration of doing hours and hours of gesture drawing and still struggle when I had to come up with believable poses for my characters. How could this be? What was I doing wrong?

​In this eBook I describe the struggles I went through during this journey and how I overcame them. I hope that my story will inspire those of you who are struggling to learn gesture drawing and help you to endure the learning process, because there is a great reward waiting for you at the end!

You can get the eBook here: http://www.swendly.com/how-i-learned-gesture-drawing-ebook.html

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Submitted by wontobe on

Is there anyway to tell what lens to use to make a shot like this work with real people? Using these skills shown here in a storyboard but not letting the cameraman guess what will get close to your image.

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Submitted by Swen on

Thanks for your question wontobe! I'm not an expert in lenses, but some kind of wide-angle lens should give this effect.

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