Gesture Drawing I With Chris Warner | Otis College of Art and Design

Otis faculty Chris Warner teaches helpful techniques for Gesture Drawing used in Life Drawing class.

[@ItsMrFresh]

I love this video. Seeing it done slowly first with in depth explanation and then a real quick sketch afterwards was the perfect way to lay out this video, and the shapes annotated over the top of the model were very helpful in getting me to understand how to break down the human body into those simple shapes. As a developing artist I often find it hard to see those basic shapes so this video has helped me a lot. Thanks!

[@jorexcalamba410]

Very true.

[@tleither]

I watch this over and over to remind myself of the process. I always want more. You are an accomplished draftsman and can communicate your method with concise ease. Kudos

[@virginia-marieparker6325]

I say with confidence that I’ve watched about 100 of these figure drawing vids. This ONE, without a doubt, has informed more for me than 98% of all of these. Thank you so much! I begin anew🏆👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️

[@PassionateAdventures]

Best explanation of gesture drawing concepts I have seen yet. Thanks a lot.

[@augustecomte3841]

Alphonso Dunn is very good.

[@doodlemancy]

This is a very well-paced explanation of a method that gives not only the how but explains WHY you would do things in this particular order. Just enough information phrased just the right way! I won't gesture so haphazardly anymore. Thank you for sharing this!

[@mellamoarts]

It looks like just your standard graphite pencil. A soft one, maybe 6b or 8b. And the point is achieved by sharpening your pencil with a knife. I use an X-acto knife. We do this to expose more of the graphite than would be with a traditional pencil sharpener.

[@zorrunamenteinefables5702]

The best explanation I've seen on KZbin about gesture drawing

[@TheGamingIndian]

Amazing how the model held the same gesture for so long. Incredibly helpful thing to have in a model also this video is exactly what i needed.

[@Karlostoven]

The best and professional explanation ever seen. The best XD

[@gr33nalchemist]

This was very well explained. I've been trying to get better at doing gesture drawings for ages, but couldn't find anyone who broke it down into easier to digest steps like this. Thanks very much.

[@iamu2247]

This video deserves WAAAAAY more hits. Thank you for sharing this with us 😀☺️🙃

[@pjlewisful]

makes more sense than any other video I've seen on the subject, and I watched ALOT!

[@bayroninter9396]

I was lucky to have Chris as my teacher at Los angeles citi college. Excellent teching techniques. Byron Ellis

[@introspectiveCreator]

Great video! I like how he uses a combination of shapes and lines for creating the gesture. I'm currently having problems with proportions in my gesture drawings. Something that does not happen when I construct the figure out of shapes and volumes as opposed to just lines. Thanks a lot for this video, it's nice to see how different artists approach gesture drawing :)

[@jofox8066]

Thanks for your his video - it was really very helpful indeed. I've worked on figure construction before and on a freer kind of gesture figure drawing but I haven't been able to put them together in real life examples. Now, finally I can see how it goes. It just clicked. Thank-you. You are a gifted teacher as well as artist.

[@ziltoidtheomniscient2398]

that pencil measuring thing makes a lot of sense. i can't believe i never thought of doing that, granted i usually sketch from my computer.

[@elsagrace3893]

Yes, thank you sir, very helpful. Now I must practice using the shapes you suggest to describe the model. 🙏🏼

[@brandonlillibridge8763]

i’d love to see your approach on drawing someone in an awkward position like sitting or laying down!

[@MegaDavidHa]

You explain how to draw way better than my professor that I have for 15 weeks.

[@gbenatar11]

Excelente video. It helps me understand better the gesture drawing. Thanks.

[@AthreeP]

Very helpful video, wish there were more done by this man.

[@Julie-kx5bs]

Excellent video, very helpful. Makes it look so easy though...

[@pentest]

Thanks for this!! It inspires me to keep practicing anatomy drawing.

[@naly202]

Amazing video. Wish my teachers had taught me like this.

[@Vercies]

Great video, really good to see it broken down step by step

[@DavidWilson-me6bs]

This video has been VERY useful. Many thanks.

[@fionaferg]

Thank you for an excellent video. Very informative.

[@MagicIse]

Really good video. Thank you. It has helped me a lot.

[@Lionhermit]

That's what this is... he's just breaking it down and walking you through the thought process you should have while doing it.

[@leamsi4ever]

Great video, you gave me good tips on how to get better proportions!

[@BorisMitendorfer]

Great video! All we need, is practice!

[@song4night]

I've seen so many teachers on KZbin,but he is the best of the best!

[@ikakosa]

nope :D vilppu is the best

[@questionmarke]

This video is AMAZING! Very nicely shot and edited and very, very, very helpful in that you demonstrated the "whats" and "whys" of your process with angle lines, geometric shapes, and video of your raised pencil over the top of the model to show us what you were looking at and what you were seeing in your mind's eye. This video made sense of a figure/gesture drawing class I took recently that left me more confused and frustrated than instructed. Looking forward to checking out your other videos!

[@brettinabox5607]

Making pre-measurements is not discussed hardly at all (except here!) I have been self-teaching for years and only in the last couple months have I noticed it and begun trying to incorporate.

[@elsagrace3893]

Oh my, this is so helpful!

[@sohinibiswas563]

loved it. Thank you for sharing.

[@angelcaban2387]

Nice, keep up the awsome work

[@rruckfules]

Thank you for the mechanical breakdown.

[@Unam-et-Solum]

Very helpful approach. Thanks.

[@artkills1]

Very well explained, thank you.

[@barrynotlarry]

Great Video for those who draw from life !

[@thetawaves48]

This reminds me of the life drawing classes I took at San Jose State in the early 1970's. Maynard Stewart was the only instructor who was BRAVE enough to teach traditional life drawing! At that time, it was politically incorrect to do so.

[@BeTheJookie]

Great lesson :D Thanks for the share!!

[@tenikaj1491]

Thanks! This is very helpfull.

[@fbpliegorrivero8869]

Excellent! Merci beaucoup

[@rowalaalbarti6470]

that's amazing , thank you very much

[@sactownj6559]

This was VERY helpful 🙌🏽 thank you for posting it. 👏🏽

[@OtisCollege]

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[@ADAMAKAGORE]

Awesome stuff. THank you.

[@chillbuddy4178]

Thank you for sharing!

[@rollinjointz]

thanks...great video..

[@user-nz8oc7pj5g]

This is very good tutorial video what I saw

[@kalel311superman9]

this is great

[@EmyArt]

amazing thanks

[@claudialenoir9783]

really helpful. Thank you!

[@williamsmith2919]

Very helpful video thank you. I life model when I can but it’s difficult to find artist.

[@stephengreico2810]

This was very helpful You should do more

[@tuongtran5353]

how to draw an accurate image. His videos are very hopeful that he will produce many good videos on how to model and measure directly on models. thank you. see you again

[@Marstar77i]

very helpful video!

[@bareknawazfarazi8767]

Thanks a lot sir u r the best❤❤❤❤

[@rafaellewis1263]

Thank you very much, this is nice.

[@Pegisus2501]

Beautiest! :-)

[@nickbernstein]

this was really useful. I happen to live right down the street from otis - do you have figure/gesture drawing sessions that are open to the public?

[@rjarts6969]

really healpful...

[@superman31172]

Very helpful thank you

[@prismsandpixels]

This is extremely helpful & really well explained. Thank you for uploading this!

[@temporalAcapella]

Very useful, thanks.

[@mrtnkelly]

Brilliant.

[@eugeniochellet8570]

thanks master chris !

[@jaromirkalab1444]

wow great explanation, thanks

[@shashankduggi]

Awesome video, thanks a lot :)

[@numbnutsszz]

extremely helpful

[@user-le3lg4qq9d]

Thank you very much

[@muskndusk]

This is so useful for capturing quick gesture drawings of my cats. I paint exclusively cats (and some other animals).

[@ccosm4587]

what kind of pencils are you using, and how are you achieving that point?

[@swordsmanGFX]

really helpful

[@hendrikhanshavermoudt7520]

for those of you who do not have a model on hand, ikea has these wierd doll thingies you can shape in all sizes. There are also a number of wesites which have practice models for gesture drawing

[@samanthathomas1825]

Those are good, but you have to be careful, because the poses that you can put them are often very unnatural, and because they tend to be held up by a metal rod, it is difficult to learn about where the weight of the figure is going through.

[@hendrikhanshavermoudt7520]

Samantha Thomas its just an cheap alternative, they did help me practice foreshortening and things in certain angles since the are always in the exact same position. I got mine from an art supply store, and it was a little more expensive then the ones from ikea, but the articulation is a lot better then the one from ikea. If you are going to talk about things that are inaccurate, just look at the build of the thingies, its far off from an actual human.

[@oKingLexx]

Theabillitytochangenames Isfrigginawesome There are many resources at artists.pixelovely.com/practice-tools/figure-drawing/ for photos of figures to practice.

[@alaouiismail4128]

i found everything i,was looking for :)

[@pedrovida23]

Subed!

[@SridharanBalaraman]

Wonderful to watch! Really helpful!

[@skwidvishus1188]

Does this sequence of steps apply to any pose?

[@lemonchicken507]

Thank you sir

[@mutesadhuarts4040]

Thank you

[@nale_7715]

lord this was helpful

[@sabrinama3468]

好詳細的解說

[@winsonxie3179]

I think if I were to do this this would take me 15mins but would be more helpful then most other methods in helping me understand proportions and gesture.

[@xKingLDx]

this seems so complex

[@PhantomDrawing]

It's amazing how still the model is staying.

[@Rookblunder]

lol, thats because she's not real......:)

[@betterthanjustiny3228]

PhantomDrawing not really I see her moving

[@ipotatosenpai7002]

Dang, models work hard

[@TehCream]

That's pretty much what this video is about. If you learn how to do it slowly like he shows you, then with practice you'll be able to do it quickly, like he then shows afterwards. Follow his instructions carefully, then practice practice practice.

[@vaijantisinghbfasculpture4372]

super

[@smalltugz]

more please

[@JillianDominique]

POOPOO. Great video.

[@meandartin1195]

+Jillian Dominique im diggin it

[@nbaroc1]

+Jillian Dominique HI WELCOME TO EB GAMES

[@roseorange2593]

Hello.. Great great video. do you know of a good anatomy, proportion figure drawing books i could buy? I just got one online and it is not very good.The one i got is Anatomy for Artists. Quite ordinary and very shy drawings or too robotic feel.

[@xortegaccaedu]

Bridgeman, and vilpu are good for structure, and breakdown.

[@crazyspooks10]

Say if I were to draw a portait of anyone. Most people I see just start drawing instantly the eye/nose/etc. Why is that? And their drawings come out fine. Is this just a way to structure something and to make your proportions proper?

[@tarajoslin749]

I am an art one instructor. Could I have your permission to use this in my course? This is such a great demonstration. *****

[@chriswarner9036]

Certainly.

[@tarajoslin749]

Thank you so much!

[@fluxstandard8364]

Moby sunspot is the music at the start

[@m.sakai_yt]

one question, when you start drawing gesture drawing do you start with torso and waist or head first?

[@m.sakai_yt]

I do start draw spine first but the thing is after drawing the spine where do I start with

[@m.sakai_yt]

oh okay well thanks for the advice though but what about drawing contour lines it self after you've made your gesture lines?

[@m.sakai_yt]

well thanks and I should take more lesson on this gesture drawing as well

[@m.sakai_yt]

alright

[@ManelRuivo]

+Makoto Sekai (Nagashima) the most important are the lines of action. its not aways the spine. dont think too much in finishing lines, but stabilish the forms, proportion and movement.

[@PuppyInTheWonderland]

hi~~~ i would like to request a video on how to draw a quick gesture in 30 seconds... thank you...

[@DrDeeAye]

wish i lived closeby..........damn...

[@RamaOhara]

I already draw dozen of gesture quick sketches, but still ugly. With this video, then, I know I really lack of method. Really helpful! Thanks..

[@MegaDavidHa]

he didn't use the eraser not once! I always do =(

[@TehCream]

by practicing with dainty little teacups.