/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

I wanted to show what I meant by gesture. I think gesture has to show emotion, not just movement. And to make interesting poses it's best to start with scribbles and mess around first. It's hard to think of a pose in your head so I just drew lines until I found a pose I liked, and expressed emotion in the face and through gesture. I think this pose is more interesting than generic poses I see in the gesture general and Hampton books. This is my first proper gesture drawing so I want to see where this leads me, I will keep drawing more and add in more emotion.
The thing is gesture is impossible to replicate. The messy lines make up the picture. If you try to redraw it with clean lines it will lose all the movement from the original.

>>6224916
Yeah that's kind of my point. You need construction and in order to construct you need perspective. However Hogarth teaches you to draw from imagination, where perspective is needed when you make dynamic poses. It's best to learn from both but there's a limit to the poses you get from real life models. You can't get those dynamic movements unless you do from imagination, most of the time (unless you're referencing another drawing from imagination).