Drawing 1 Minute Poses (Gesture Drawing)

[@Drawing-Life]

Happy New Year friend 🥳 !! Well .... how was your 2022?? Ready to move right on to 2023? Me too! Let me know in the comments how your year was - did you see real progress in your drawing? Did you have any major drawing breakthroughs?? Share below, I'd love to hear how it was. I'm leaving this year with one last gesture drawing that aptly sums up how this year felt - a tangle of lines! Sending you much love joy and peace for the New Year! XOXO ❤

[@w00olf]

Happy New Year

[@Drawing-Life]

@@w00olf Happy New Year to you !! 🥳 , nice to see you in the comments, hope you are doing well! Wishing you a creative and successful 2023 :)

[@je4nette]

Your mark making is so beautiful. When I draw, it feels like I'm just making outlines of anatomy. Yours is free and energetic.

[@Drawing-Life]

That's so very kind of you say, thank you! If you can get to life drawing, that will really help to free up your mark making. And of course, practicing gesture drawing :) ... I appreciate your comment though. The main the reason, or intention, behind this channel, is to support you drawing in a way that is about the energy and feeling. Figure drawing is not just about a rigid template or just about anatomy. It can be also about expression. Ultimately, balancing both approaches will result in a powerful drawing skillset, so I hope this helps you! :) ❤

[@cripsudroiid452]

Simetría,talento y perfección 👽

[@jenniferD223]

Siobhan, I discovered your videos this year and they have honestly helped me so much. After not drawing for many years I have had the opportunity to attend life drawing sessions. With your helpful tips and this wonderful time to be able to completely focus and draw on this energy, I have gained confidence and been able to add a lot of expression to the work. Thank you so much for taking the time to make these videos. May 2023 be kind to you. I am ready for it too and hoping to tackle it head on with positive energy! Warmest wishes, Jenny x

[@Drawing-Life]

Wow thank you Jenny, that means so much, and makes all these videos worthwhile just to hear that!! I'm so excited for you as you delve deeper into life drawing, it is such a powerful and rewarding practice. Excited for your year ahead! Thank you so much for this wonderful comment. :)

[@Gilren1]

Dear Siobhan I wish you and all of the viewers a very happy new year - I love your videos. They are not just helpful in their content, but so pleasant to watch - and to listen to. :)

[@Drawing-Life]

@Gilren1 ah that's so wonderful to hear, thank you so much!! This is very good feedback to hear - i'm my own worst critic haha, thanks a mil for watching and being here. All the best for the new year :)

[@KarenDodo9]

Happy New Year Siobhan, thank you for these incredible lessons (just seen this one now)

[@maryleemackichan8711]

Thank you for sharing your work and wisdom, and Happy New Year! When I was in a life drawing class early in 2022 I fell in love with it and felt I was making progress. I've struggled to put a drawing practice in place once the class ended. Hoping to find a way back into drawing in 2023...maybe just need to wait until my dog asleep and draw her? :)

[@rolfarnquist8343]

Yes! Thank you Siobhan for all the time and effort you put into creating these instructive and inspirational drawing videos. I have learned so much! Happy New Years to you and yours as well!

[@Drawing-Life]

Ah happy new year Rolf, thank you so much for all your support on this channel, it means so much. Have a wonderful new year!

[@CreativeSteve69]

Dear Siobhan Wishing you had a great 2022. Hoping you have a great 2023. I discovered your channel through the digital drawing udemy course I was doing from you that you created. I still gotta go back and finish it soon. I also have been slowly getting back into drawing again after so many years of break. :)

[@Drawing-Life]

Hi Steve, that's great to hear! I didn't realize you had taken hat Udemy course! Wow, awesome :) Was it the background design course? I need to update it though, so don't worry about finishing yet haha! Wait till I've updated. So glad to hear you're getting back to your drawing, it does take time, and can be a slow process to fully get back into it. You'll look back though and see a huge improvement and it won't seem that it took as long as it did. Keep me posted anyway! Wishing you the very best for 2023. Thank you for your support on this channel, it means so much, I really appreciate you watching the vids 😊❤

[@trfox5625]

Happy 2023. I’m looking forward to starting this class. I want to start figure drawing. As a graphic designer, photographer I have some drawings skills but nothing in human form. So I want to be able to quickly draw images like this by the end of 2023.

[@Drawing-Life]

Happy 2023 to you to, good luck with all your art endeavors this year, sounds like exciting times ahead, hopefully you can get to some live figure drawing sessions - you'll find it's incredibly supportive to your other creative work, especially design. Also, just wanted to say, drawing short gesture poses are a wonderful way to be expressive, and as such it really won't take you a year to learn! more like a few minutes - once you "get it" 😅

[@BironelStudiosPress]

Happy New year Sensei. I completed an animation course with you. That course and this channel has helped my art grow a great deal. Gassho! (Thank you) Wishing You a healthy, peaceful, creative, prosperous 2023!

[@Drawing-Life]

Yes!! that's awesome, I remember you in the animation course :) So good to know you're here too!! Thanks so much for this comment, and for supporting this channel it means so much. Wishing you a creative, exciting and fulfilling 2023! OSSU!

[@StanislasNanchen]

Happy new year, dear Siobhan! And thank you for the videos; the dynamism in your drawing is always wonderful. I am luck to have in-person life drawing every week, so my drawing improved this year. (still not so great 😅).

[@Drawing-Life]

Ah! Great to hear from you :) thanks for this comment!! Wow, so wonderful that you can get to life drawing each week. If you post on IG let me know, i use @drawinglife.io for posting work, as much as I can, not on there as often as here. Good luck with your work and art in 2023, wishing you a really creative and successful year. Thank you so much for your support here, and for watching the vids. Really appreciate it 😊

[@rosemarybunch6846]

Dear Siobhan, thank you for this last video for this year. Unfortunately, I was not artistically very productive this year ... too many personal things going on. But you were a good companion with your engaging and inspiring videos. With your art you always bring some peace and positivity to my often discouraged thoughts. So, thank you for this. I wish you a happy and peaceful New Year and may your channel grow even bigger! Roberta ❤

[@Drawing-Life]

That is so amazing to hear Roberta!! Thank you for this beautiful comment. I hope next year is a wonderful year for you - I can relate to that feeling of having too many things going on, a lot of my other work got sidelined this year for me due to things going on! , so hopefully we both find a bit of stability and ease in 2023! So good to know you're on the other end, watching these videos. I'm sending you all the very best wishes of the new year. ❤😊

[@mikertist347]

What I love about your work is the variety! Different parts of the pencil are used, at different paces, with pauses and different pressures applied. All of that variety is bound to be dynamic. That is what I plan on trying to incorporate. Thanks again!

[@Drawing-Life]

Hi Mike, ah you get it!! That's exactly what I try to explain, about mark making - experiment with different marks is a great way to get dynamic drawings, and brings a natural rhythm into your drawing. Thanks of rthis comment :)

[@davidtidsall9266]

Happy new year Siobhan. Your channel is one the places I go for peaceful inspiration. Keep up the good work. This year I took gesture drawing into abstract mark making exploring line quality as part of the abstract expression. I keep my drawing practice going as it feeds most other art projects.

[@Drawing-Life]

that's wonderful! I'm always amazed at how a regular drawing practice - especially figure drawing - feeds into other art, even digital art. It unlocks that part of our brain I guess!! Thanks for your comment, so lovely to hear from you, and thanks for always tuning in to the vids, really appreciate it! I'm envious of your abstract mark making exploration - sounds awesome and something I'm going to aim to work with myself in the new year. Have a great 2023!!

[@baharehzamani9399]

Thanks dear Siobhan, wish you a great 2023, you were so helpful in the past year and I always look forward to see your precious content here✨🙏

[@Drawing-Life]

That means so much! Always love to see your comments, thank you for watching I'm just glad that you find the videos useful!! That's awesome. Wishing you a peaceful, prosperous and creative 2023!! 😊

[@JackFate518]

Happy New Year and many thanks to you. Your channel is inspiring and enjoyable and informative. I hope you'll have time and strength and desire to keep making these videos.

[@Drawing-Life]

That's wonderful to hear!! Thank you so much :) I'l do my best to keep making them - be sure to let me know if there is anything specific you'd like to hear discussed or talked through. Happy new year to you! :)

[@brianhenry3297]

May the road rise to meet you. All the best for you and yours for the next trip around the sun. XX

[@Drawing-Life]

Back at you @brianhenry3297 ... struggling to remember an appropriate response as Gaeilge.... so "back at ya" it will be ☘ Have a great year!

[@lyracatiyu8361]

Happy New Year! It’s 2023!

[@Drawing-Life]

Happy New Year!! 🥳

[@Amanda-xh8dc]

I’ve had an interesting year in terms of my drawing practice. I was very productive in the beginning, but went through a couple months experiencing doubt and artist’s block. I’ve recently overcome that, and now feel hopeful that I will stay more consistent in the new year. Thanks for the videos, I’ve found them very inspiring!

[@Drawing-Life]

Oh yes artist block and doubt is tough!! I know exactly how that feels I can definitely relate, I'm so glad to hear that you overcame it and are back to drawing. Keep drawing! Keeping a regular sketchbook is definitely something i aim to do this year. Will be thinking of you and sending good drawing vibes! :)

[@Amanda-xh8dc]

@@Drawing-Life thanks I really appreciate that! I will keep good thoughts for you as well!

[@f81456]

Happy New Year!

[@Drawing-Life]

Same to you! :)

[@andreagrey9780]

As always love the videos. I look forward to the new year and hope to see more of your show.

[@Drawing-Life]

Ah thanks Andrea!! Happy New Year to you and to yours. Hope you have a creative, successful and wonderful 2023! ❤

[@andreagrey9780]

@@Drawing-Life I posted a quick sketch on Instagram based on your video. I hope you like it.

[@Drawing-Life]

@@andreagrey9780 Ooh! I'll go check it thanks!! :)