Improve Your Figure Drawing in 5 Minutes!

In this short art tutorial, instructor Jessie explains the difference between drawing gestures and forms. Both are necessary to get better at figure drawing! Did you find this advice helpful? Let us know! 🤓

🕓 Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
0:08 - What is gesture drawing?
1:15 - How to draw human gestures
3:27 - How to draw human forms
5:07 - Combining gesture and form

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Artist software used:
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[yonnel]

I turly love your videos! They are not like the other tutorials that last 20 to 30 minutes of slow and long explanations. It's concise, fast, and stays thorough! Very interesting and even motivating! Thanks a ton for your work, to all the team!

[wheresjsn]

I desperately need this. My gestures always look off

[PhunkxnSpdr]

I have been trying to draw anatomy for a long time, I am a young artist who has been doing art since the age of 4 and this helps me so much. i have been trying to get better at gesture drawing and just basically drawing the body.I have had mental breakdowns because I honestly couldn't find any videos that would get to the point and actually help and this helped me so much crying tears of joy right now. Thank you some much 💗😭

[teslarunner]

Im in love with this tutorial. I was so confused about why gesture and forms are connected to figure drawing until this video, thank you so much

[gabrielbruce]

VERY helpful lesson and I'm so glad to see the Real Rosie!!

[gayrobloxgirl]

i really appreciate your video’s, ive been drawing all my life but i am terrible at basic things like anatomy, but your videos are really helpful and for some reason im able to stay focused when usually with other videos i cant :) tysm

[miabiton-gd]

thank you so much it helped me a lot with understanding what gesture means. btw your art is amazing

[chaoswolf]

Simple to understand and on Point. Why does everyone else make a science out of this? Oo

[toad]

Hi! I’m a digital artist and I’m very limited on digital platforms to illustrate on - I noticed that most of your videos include you drawing digitally, so I was wondering is there a way to maintain my storage while drawing digitally? I’m afraid of running out of storage because drawing is my passion. Thank you for listening!

[georgerabbitearl]

Thanks. I am good at gesture drawing but had a missing link how to move forward to form. With your explanation I get. Consider to take your course. Thanks for the video 🙂

[sylentnote]

This showed up just on time! I was trying to draw someone crouching and having a hard time

[toonami]

This helped alot. I'm finally able to bring weight to my drawings

[skillpalette]

appreciate your work it ultra amazing!

[HavenHopeArt]

Thank you so much, this was super helpful. 💙✨❤️

[kdmill]

Your lesson is accurate, but Norman Rockwell used photographs as his "models". True, he added the details to create the Americana in his pieces.

[Skitborting]

How do I know which part where the most weight is being applied. Thank you

[SpideyArtisan]

Does this apply to animal illustrations too?

[matthewgarner]

Question: What if I'm gesture drawing for a figure who's in the air, and is not applying their weight on anything?

[ColossalM]

surprise guest appearance from Patricia Taxxon

[TheRatWhoLived]

Please teach us how to draw naga! (Snake people)