[0.000 --> 5.680]  Have you ever felt like your drawings are stiff? Maybe like this?
[5.680 --> 12.840]  These are my drawings from high school and as you can see, I learned my anatomy from
[12.840 --> 18.280]  studying dragon ball, but at the time I didn't really know how to draw better poses or to
[18.280 --> 24.000]  learn. And it wasn't until I went to art college that I learned a key technique that helped
[24.000 --> 31.600]  me to draw like this today. It helped me to draw poses that are more dynamic and expressive.
[31.600 --> 35.880]  I want to show you that same technique in this video where we're going to learn gesture
[35.880 --> 40.920]  drawing. So gesture drawing is a quick sketch that captures the feeling of a pose and the
[40.920 --> 47.920]  different forms in motion. And to get started, it's always good to study from life. When
[47.920 --> 52.000]  you study from life, you can learn about the form and how it looks and then apply it
[52.000 --> 57.240]  to your own characters. So you may be thinking, what's the best way to start on a figure?
[57.240 --> 63.920]  Well, the first way, a good way is to draw the line of action. The line of action is kind
[63.920 --> 69.400]  of the main line that describes the angle of the pose and the movement through the figure.
[69.400 --> 73.840]  After you draw that line, I like to draw the head. Start to block in the body. Here,
[73.840 --> 78.600]  I'm drawing in the angle of the shoulders and the next thing, it's good to think about
[78.600 --> 83.480]  where the weight is and where the balance is. So for this pose, I think the first leg
[83.480 --> 88.320]  is where her weight is. This other leg is kind of counterbalancing her torso that's
[88.320 --> 93.960]  leading to the right. So you can keep blocking out the forms and I'm using kind of long,
[93.960 --> 101.640]  flowy lines to really feel how the figure is posed and how the gesture is. And drawing
[101.640 --> 109.760]  in is an expression that gives kind of a personality to her and in little details and that
[109.760 --> 118.280]  is our first gesture drawing. So with that, you guys ready for the next pose? Alright,
[118.280 --> 125.080]  let's go. Oh, this is a pretty cool pose. She's got one leg on the wall for some reason.
[125.080 --> 130.560]  So we can start using the same process. I'm going to put into the line of action and
[130.560 --> 136.800]  notice there's a curve to her upper body. Laying her head and try to get the tilt of it.
[138.800 --> 144.080]  Angle of the shoulders. Now, I want to really establish that leg that she's standing on and how
[144.080 --> 150.080]  straight it is and draw her other leg against the wall. And it seems like her balance is kind of
[150.080 --> 157.360]  split between her two legs. So just really quick drawing in her kind of expression to kind of
[157.360 --> 163.600]  get some of her personality in there. She's like, I hate this wall. Some shadows that show the
[163.600 --> 170.080]  contact with the wall on the ground. And just really quickly, you can do a gesture drawing that
[170.080 --> 176.160]  kind of captures that feeling of the pose. And to talk about feeling, there's all kinds of
[176.160 --> 180.720]  gestures that you can study. So I wanted to do something different. So here's a sitting pose and
[180.800 --> 186.800]  for this one, what really caught my eye was her attitude, right? Like the way she, her head is
[186.800 --> 192.480]  leaning back. She's got it kind of got this cool vibe to her. So I tried to capture that first
[192.480 --> 196.160]  because I felt that that was kind of one of the most important things. And I don't think I quite
[196.160 --> 204.000]  got it. But that's okay. Sometimes you get it, sometimes you don't. If you miss, you can just try
[204.000 --> 210.400]  again. So I'm just kind of studying kind of how she's sitting. But for this one, I just really
[210.400 --> 217.680]  wanted to emphasize capturing personality. And so sometimes it's about drawing, but a lot of times
[217.680 --> 225.280]  it's about what you're showing that's not the lines. You're showing the feeling of a character and
[225.280 --> 230.880]  and the attitude. All right. So for the next pose, I thought we'd like take it into action.
[231.440 --> 239.600]  So we got this guy in the Spaskeball player. And I'm noticing that for this pose, he's got this
[239.600 --> 247.520]  really cool angle to his upper body and legs. This gesture is really about the action. So it seems
[247.520 --> 252.960]  like he's running towards the left. And I'm using the folds and his clothes to kind of show the
[252.960 --> 259.600]  movement. It's like the folds are, his clothes are dragging behind them kind of flowing to the right.
[260.320 --> 266.000]  And it's okay to draw through. You can draw over. You don't have to erase. And I think that keeps you
[266.000 --> 272.080]  in the flow of things. You can adjust the pose. And here I'm trying to focus on good silhouette. So it's
[272.080 --> 282.320]  more clear. The arm is away from his body. And so now I've wanted to try something a bit more
[282.320 --> 289.120]  challenging, a group pose. And so there's kind of a lot going on. But we can attack it the same way
[289.120 --> 295.360]  like we've done the other drawings. Kind of lay in the ground and going from one person
[296.640 --> 304.400]  and just laying in these two characters. And what I'm noticing about these poses is the guys in
[304.400 --> 309.920]  the front are kind of, their lines of actions are going towards each other, right? They're in
[309.920 --> 316.320]  opposition. There's conflict between them. And so I wanted to capture that. So starting with this
[316.400 --> 324.720]  this guy who's blocking, drawing in his face. And what I'm noticing is he's got this really
[325.280 --> 330.720]  outstretched arm, right? So I'm kind of feeling that as I draw that stretch. I'm using a lot of
[330.720 --> 336.560]  straight and flowy lines up to his hand, noticing the twist of his body that flows all the way down
[336.560 --> 344.160]  to his legs. So I want to capture that. Straight legs straight by. And then using another line of
[344.160 --> 351.280]  action from that arm to his back arm, it's kind of stretched back away from his body.
[352.480 --> 356.720]  So we're working on this other leg. It's more relaxed because the other leg is pushing. So this
[356.720 --> 362.400]  one's a little bit more relaxed. So we have that contrast between the legs. So even though this
[362.400 --> 368.800]  pose may seem kind of basic, right? It's kind of like a lot of straights. But there is some kind of
[368.800 --> 373.920]  subtlety between, you know, each leg one is straight, one is relaxed. Same thing with his arms,
[373.920 --> 378.160]  one is kind of reached out. And the other one is should be a little more relaxed.
[379.280 --> 384.080]  So I'm going to work on this guy in the front. And I've noticed that from his torso down to his
[384.800 --> 390.160]  foot, there's a really strong gesture line, that line of action that I wanted to capture. As he's
[390.160 --> 395.840]  kind of jumping up and reaching up, I want to capture the way his head is tilted and looking up.
[397.200 --> 402.720]  And here I'm drawing his arm kind of overlapping with the first guy. They're kind of getting in contact,
[402.800 --> 408.720]  right? And the photo is the ball is covering his face. It's like he's hiding. But remember,
[408.720 --> 413.760]  we can adjust it. So here I'm pushing the ball out, trying to picture what it's like if it was
[413.760 --> 421.360]  outstretched to kind of clear up his face. And then, so here are the two guys in opposition.
[422.640 --> 426.640]  What's kind of cool is these guys in the back. You know, the story here is it looks like they're
[426.640 --> 433.280]  slowing down, right? They're leaning back. Their line of action is kind of away from the front two
[433.280 --> 439.920]  guys. And this last guy in the back, his leg is really far forward so he can slow down.
[441.440 --> 445.920]  And so there's a bunch of different ways that you can study poses. We look at standing poses,
[446.560 --> 452.640]  and the balance and the weight. We look at sitting poses that convey attitude and personality.
[452.640 --> 459.360]  You can study action poses and movement and how clothes react to kind of the action of the scene.
[459.360 --> 465.120]  And so I hope this video was was exciting. I felt like I was a DJ and as I was drawing it,
[465.120 --> 470.400]  I had a lot of fun. And so these poses can help you draw your own characters and make them more
[470.400 --> 477.280]  expressive and dynamic and have a lot more personality to them. So have fun, give it a shot.
[477.280 --> 482.720]  And let me know what you think of the comments and I'll see you guys soon. All right, see ya.