Gesture Drawing

What is gesture drawing?

• A rigid, detailed realistic drawing of what you see

• Capturing the action, form and pose

• Drawing of objects

• Drawing signs made with hands

Egyptians depicted the human figure.....

• as very colourful

• always in motion

• as static, and in rigid postures

• realistically giving the illusion of 3D form

The Laocoon is an ancient Greek Sculpture of the Hellenistic period, which

• is static

• shows extremely exaggerated proportions

• Conveys dynamism and movement

Gesture drawing can be helpful to study and understand, human figure drawing.

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• False

Which ones are examples of gesture drawings? (You can choose more than one answer)

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Draw a gesture drawing of a person running

Gesture drawing is only for humans

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(You can choose more than one answer) Gesture drawings can be made ....

• by using only lines

• very quickly

• very detailed shading

• by drawing a person sitting down

One way to go about gesture drawing is to

• observe angles and curvature of posture

• use a ruler

• observe the colour and tone of the skin

• observe the light and dark tones