![]() ![]() Understanding and applying gesture to your daily practice is a crucial step in your artistic development. That means if you buy something we get a small commission at no extra cost to you( learn more) Those observations might not make it into the sketch (my eye-hand reaction is nowhere near as quick as it needs to be to gesturize) but they make it into my visual appreciation.Tips Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links. ![]() As with so many other things in life, it's Practice, Practice, Practice!īecause I am not in a hurry at the bird feeder, being quite content to sit and wait and watch, when a bird alights on the feeder the gesture drawing gives me an opportunity to appreciate the portion of the bird that is being sketched it lets me hone in on the uniqueness or specifics of the bird. Perhaps because Liz shared her bird feeder page with us, I found it easier to make my sketches smaller and fit lots of gestures for multiple birds on two pages. ![]() On the other hand, the Red Foxes were moving too quickly for me to sketch much although, yet again as I look now at the drawings there is more there than I initially realized.Ībsolutely the best part was going outside to our deck and gesturizing the birds that came and went at our feeder, plus some birds hanging out in the bushes and trees, and a squirrel or two on the ground. Having 2 minutes to gesturize the Pintail Duck was a luxury and yielded satisfying sketches because I was able to capture multiple positions. Also noticed that in an effort to focus on the quickness of the gesture, the size of my drawings are huge, often filling the page and all mostly much larger than the size in the videos relative to the full screen. Well this was definitely interesting! In looking back at the gesture drawings made from the videos I'm pleasantly surprised to see they actually bear some faint resemblances to what I was looking at. That one was really a challenge.Īll in all I think gesture drawing is a great practice for every session or as a warm up. The fox video was very hard to follow as the baby fox was so active. The 2nd page is from the video with Liz at the bird feeders in Sapsucker Woods. The mushroom or toadstool, whatever it is, leads to a great question as to finding out just what it is and why it puffs out a brownish powder, questions that lead to other questions that need answering. I've included 2 pages the 1st page has to 2 parts, the top half shows gesture sketches from a window overlooking my bird feeders (that have been taken over by red squirrels) I've tried to capture a few gesture sketches of red squirrels, chickadees and woodpeckers, the bottom half of the page is from a walk in my woods this morning showing scenes from a tree trunk with moss and some kind of mushroom that dried out and puffs out powder when you flatten it, another scene is of geese flying overhead. I see the importance of getting the gestures down as accurately and as quickly as possible because the subjects move so quickly, such as the song birds and squirrels that frequent my yard. I found that with my attempts at gesture drawing I tend to try to do some refining of my sketches rather than continuing on to the next subject. ![]() It just occurred to my mind that I tend to pick tinny small creatures to sketch. Also, they were far away and small in size, I believe this made me sketch tinny sketches :/ Real-life sketching was a bit hard because they were flying away at the minimal movements. I've never noticed / or better said / never thought of it until I was sketching their closed wings while standing. I have noticed the uniqueness of the house sparrows's black marks on its wings - both males and females. There were lots of branches between us, but I tried to get her eye while looking at me :) Luckily, I noticed a Dove in her nest above my head. I've didn't give it much of thought before. I also was able to focus on their gestures while drinking water, specifically speaking, how their bodies' bend and how it rise while drinking. Their heads, their legs, their "closed" wings and "opened wings. I thought of sketching the shapes only - then I went deeper to observe each part of their anatomy. I kept my camera and phone away (cause I have this tendency of photographing and videoing the birds to be able to sketch them later) I forced myself to just sketch with my pen or pencil. Gesture drawing did help me observing the birds - Yet, they were too fast to be sketched. ![]()
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