Gesture Drawings

GESTURE DRAWINGS

This is another invaluable exercise that you hardly can spend too much time on. The point of these quick drawings from a nude or clothed model is to capture the essence of the pose. Weight, balance, expression and flow (or "action" as Glenn Vilppu would say) should be the focus, not correct anatomy or pretty lines. 

These are all 1 or 2 min drawings. 30sec to 2min is generally a good time limit I've found. With longer poses I usually start paying to much attention to detail, and the exercise becomes something else.
Since I seldom have access to visit a studio I often use digital references. One excellent source for this is New Masters Academy's video channel on Youtube. 

As ususal, when I don't draw with pen and paper, I'm using Mischief.