Thursday, October 26th, 2006
gesture as an exersize.
it’s been awile and i have alot of backlogged posts to put out. over the past year i’ve been attending this gesture class. when you say gesture class and life drawing class i used to think they were kinda the same, i come to find out they are vastly different.
example: in ife drawing classes of the past you would have 30 sec poses and in that time you wanted anatomical accuracy, in the gesture class i get so much pencil milage trying to get the feel/action of the pose that at first i felt it hard to keep up. i mean come on a hour of 30 sec to 2min poses where the focus is on the expression of action by means of animation principles.(squash & stretch,etc.) believe it or not it changed the way i approached drawing completely. its all about developing a shorthand and exaggerating a specific but clear action, real Walt Stanchfield stuff. here are some examples from this past year, i hope to post more in the future, as i feel ive learned something new..
by the way i like to use a tombow brush pen because i can’t be too sketchy and indecisive, plus i can’t erase..
on Thursday, October 26th, 2006 at 8:13 pm:
These are awesome Louis! Really evocative and direct sketches.
on Thursday, October 26th, 2006 at 9:36 pm:
AWESOME LOUIS!
man i gotta start going to LD more often.
on Wednesday, December 27th, 2006 at 8:23 pm:
wow. these are pretty amazing.
got the afterworks book a few weeks ago, mostly because of your work in there. great stuff.
on Saturday, December 30th, 2006 at 7:01 pm:
thank you guys.
German, did you pick up book one or two?
Either way thanks for picking the book up.
lo
on Monday, January 1st, 2007 at 12:14 am:
I picked up ther first one. What I wonder is if its still possible somehow to get a copy of the Dumping Grounds Vol .1. Cheers