/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3034286

> hopefully, a book to help me improve on my gestures?

"Figure Drawing for Artists: Making Every Mark Count" by Steve Huston.

It's doubly valuable because Huston is both very experienced teacher tied through his whole life with ArtCenter which is one of the top art schools in USA AND accomplished painter on his own, being shown in galleries and whatnot.

Book is very good because it shows stuff that /ic/ talks about in disconnected way or not at all, and I mean the whole talk about doing gesture studies and construction.

Huston emphasizes (and rightfully so) gesture/structure priority, but in his workflow you naturally can fill your gesture with structure and he doesn't shy on both of those.

He also says some IMHO very important stuff about perspective in figure drawing and how to keep it, but without that heavy and unnecessary VP approach. It's even different from what krenz shows in his box method.

Anyway, read it, I think it is for you and generally seek for his videos on youtube, there's a lot of goodness in what he says, you just feel the years of experience from him. Even his Proko interview that isn't about techniques per se is golden.