/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3522441
>>3522441
Gesture is basically movement captured within a drawing. Now some of your sketches clearly have movement but they are little bit disproportionate and most of them are stiff. Let's have the basketball player in the right hand side of middle row. If he is jumping in the air his body has loaded up energy and as he bursts to air his entire body is at work - now he looks like he is falling from an skyscraper feet front.

His entire body should have drawn on top of a curved line that translates into movement and is in essence gesture.

Your limbs are quite stiff as well - you have tried to connect forearms and biceps together with a joint which is how they simplified work. But this speaks of no movement or energy. It looks like two loafs of bread with the tips touching each other. You should have a fluid simple curving line (either S curve or C curve) and draw the muscles on top of that. Think as if a wire would go from your shoulder into your wrist. Now when you move it's not a stiff bone but a wire that is being pulled and bent. We need to exaggerate that so it has curvature and energy, because rendering blocks of muscles on top of that will downplay it's effects.

This is very difficult topic to explain and you may spend 10 years reading the subject until it finally clicks. Or it may well happen faster than that. But look for curvature and sort of stored movement energy within your subjects.