CHAPTER 1 GESTURE DRAWING
An Introduction to Gesture Drawing
The figure drawing process begins with gesture drawing. At the end of this book, you will see numerous examples of detailed and highly rendered figure drawings. But before all the anatomy and shading was added, each of these drawings began with a simple gesture drawing.
Gesture drawing is one of the most important, but least understood parts of the figure drawing process. In this chapter, I will demystify gesture drawing and teach you a practical process that you can use as the first step toward more finished drawings, and this process will help you understand the figure as a ...
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