THIS Improves Your Gesture Drawing

Drawing shapes is easy, but making them dynamic…that’s another story. In this lesson, I demonstrate my process for identifying the gesture of your subject and then designing dynamic and interesting shapes to support that gesture.

CHAPTERS:

00:00 - Intro
01:11 - Demo 1
05:53 - Demo 2
12:13 - Demo 3
15:43 - Outro

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Instructional How to Draw videos for artists. My drawing lessons are approachable enough for beginners and detailed enough for advanced artists. My philosophy is to teach timeless concepts in an entertaining way. I believe that when you are having fun, you learn better. I take pride in producing high-quality videos that you will enjoy watching and re-watching.

CREDITS:

Publishing - Alex Otis

Music Used with Permission
Intro - The Freak Fandango Orchestra

Additional music by Epidemic Sound

[Sara-pkwv]

"Focus on the gesture not the outlines" one minute in and I know now why my poses are stiff. Your videos are really helpful and easily understood

[RezaKaviani]

Free reference?!
It's like the old days of the anatomy course again!
man... I love proko

[noxzus]

I'm very mad at you Proko. I have gone from wanting to be a concept artist, to wanting to be a seal artist

[capnbarky]

Honestly one of the biggest parts of good gesture drawing feels like the mileage. I've been doing 100 days of timed gesture drawing practice, and on day 50 it's getting very easy to see where the shapes, alignments, and rhythms are.

[AdamV]

I totally didn't expect that seals would improve my gesture drawing. I was mistaken.

[TheSantifive]

9:40 And without even trying Stan creates both a sense of depth (which he explains) and a core of shape design in making three distinguishable big, medium and small shapes (which he doesn't go into): Look into the 'triangles' formed by the 'creases'

[artofnocula]

"It's a detail, but if it adds so much to the gesture, it's not a detail!" is my new favorite art mantra.

[Im_Banana_]

this video helped me with every problem i had with gesture for some reasons.

details,
for starters i always had a problem knowing what details to add or not to add, i add too much its a mess, if i add too little what i drew made no sense, but thanks to this video i now know to try and look for important details only.

accuracy,
I've always tried to stick to the image as exact as possible, but now i realized that with gesture you can slightly adjust the shape into something that looks more appealing and interesting.

depth,
i never knew how to create depth in a gesture drawing, turns out the answer is just creases.

Thank you for making gesture fun for me stan.

-banana

[huyphamquoc]

as a beginner who has just started drawing recently, gestures affect the result a lot, especially when you try to break an object into simple shapes and fail to organize them based on perspective and break the flow, the outcome is weird, although sometimes it's hard to think about what shape you should break the part into... so art is not just practice but also the long-term of studying about a lot of things....Btw, thanks for sharing <3, I hope to watch more tutorials from you

[kai-en]

That bit were he flew away on that chair-rocket got me laughing hysterically 😂 But no seriously.... I could never get my head around when I saw the pros drawing gesture on YouTube. "the energy flowing this way" "that line intersecting this way because blah blah" felt like a yoga class. Honestly I couldn't understand what's up with all that "flow energy" talk... I just couldn't see it. Thanks to that seal and Proko amazing explanation finally I can see this "energy flow" business much much better. So thank you Proko and Seal for helping me out so much ❤

[mira-wall]

Watching you sketch is like ASMR
So satisfying seeing confident lines and shapes completed

[metaman]

Currently learning about gesture drawings and how to draw them. Perfect timing!

[Pan_De_Seal]

This video is a god send. I love seals (it’s pretty obvious) and I’ve been meaning to learn and practice for my art— specifically gestures and such because I tend to be very rigid with it and it’s so time consuming whenever I draw bodies and poses @_@

I just want to say thank you so much for this video!! And for your existence!! You’re tremendously helpful to everyone here!!

[akifaiman]

This actually makes it easier to see the line of action

[sabersight]

cant help but feel Proko is truly the junction point for artist and these videos prove it more and more :D great lessons, im definitely getting the course when i have the time to go trough it xD

[smaydaartsdesigns]

That's a great exercise idea to learn gesture drawing, I enjoyed drawing along!

[damianzieba]

I guess I am pretty close to understand what gesture really is. I am that type of person, that loves math, phisics, measuring etc. but has no idea how to do something more advanced. Perspective, construction, anatomy, all of that seems to be easy for me, but gesture is like different type of art, I understand your words, but it never really made any sens for me. Now, I am understanding more and more, but still it's like magic. Thank you for giving me another chance to get a little bit closer to learn gesture!

[varundate]

i wanna learn a lot from you.. please keep uploading videos like this!

[Azidust]

They are really fun to draw thank you for the advice

[kikolektrique]

WHAT PERFECT TIMING!!! I was practicing my gesture drawing right now after looking a mike mattesi force series