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Day 9 (2): how to improve?

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Day 9: Stuck in progress..

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Day 8: Copied master drawings and tried out the techniques. How to keep the flow of gestures? Describe volumes while use shadows as re-enforcing gesture lines.

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Day 5 & 6: Caught up in busy schedules. Haven’t been able to make much progresses.

Today’s thoughts:  “What is gesture?” I asked myself many times during practices. I see some saying that it’s what you “feel” about a pose or the “flow” of a pose. I found that too vague. I tried understanding it as what nature has evolved us into, the structure evolution shaped to support every living being, like the human spine and the stretches of tree branches flowing in “Ss”, intermittent “Cs” or spirally or even how river swirls. However, this became difficult when limb movements do not extend the gesture of the torso or when poses are static. How to make the poses in whole then? Let the study continue..

Tomorrow’s plan of actions:

• Study Karl Gnass’s videos about “Spirit of Pose”
• Gesture drawing x 0.5 hrs
• Draw from cast x 1

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Day 6&7:

Today’s thoughts: “What is gesture?” I often ask myself when practicing. Some say that it is the “feeling” or “flow” of a pose. I found that too vague. I tried to understand it as the structure evolution has shaped every being into, like the human spine, swirling waters and stretching tree branches. These flow in “Ss”, intermittent “Cs”, or spirally as the optimal supports for movements. However, it became difficult when limbs do not extend the gesture of the torso or with static poses. How to make the pose whole then? Let the study continue…

Tomorrow’s plan:

• Study Kark Gnass’s videos “Spirit of the Pose”
• Gesture x 0.5 hr
• Cast drawing x 1

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Day 6 & 7:

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Day 4: Trying to capture gesture on cats

Then back to figures to see if I can capture the flows better

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Day 5 (2): more gestures, and trying to carry gestures into lines and shadows with more finished forms

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Day 5: solidifying gestures, checking out progress with a more finished cast drawing.

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Thanks Chi, Joshua!

Yes, capturing gestures is fun and challenging! I feel that it’s like capturing the transient feeling of a pose and put them down in lines that no words can describe.

I will alternate between structured/mechanical trainings of the basic forms and loose/free capturing of gestures. Hopefully they will reinforce each other and lead to some improvements :).

 

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Day 4 (2): Figure gestures

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Day 4 (1): Gestures on Animals

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Day 3: further back down to the basics – Drawing torso beans

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Day 2: Simplified Torso Forms

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