About the video: Gesture Drawing
Overview
“In this lesson, I will demonstrate how to achieve dynamic figures through gesture drawing. The key aspects I will cover are the line of action, opposing curves, and balance. ”
In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Gesture Drawing, which is part of the Domestika online course: Specialization in Concept Art: Creative design of characters and scenarios. Learn to create immersive worlds and expressive characters through the concept art, with an approach to narration, environments and characters design..
Partial transcription of the video
“ Gesture Drawing Now, we’ll touch on figure drawing specifically gesture drawing. Gesture drawing is very important in my process as I like to get fluidity and movement in as early as possible. The things I’ll cover are line of action, opposing curves, and balance. Let's get started. Firstly, I'll talk about the line of action. Now, with gesture drawings, you're trying to capture movement. When it comes to figure drawing, the more detail you add to the figure, the stiffer it starts to look, it loses the energy, like a little napkin sketch might have. When it comes to drawing figures, for m...”
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Course summary for: Specialization in Concept Art: Creative design of characters and scenarios
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Category
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Areas
3D, 3D Modeling, Character Design, Concept Art, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting

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