3 Tips for Gesture Drawing

This video explains 3 simple tips that you can think about, and to try to achieve in your drawings. These 3 tips will dramatically improve your gesture drawings, and your figure drawing overall. Gesture drawing is all about recording your response on paper, and the way you approach doing these really short 1 minute or 2 minute poses is all about making sure you get that response down on paper as directly as possible..

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