2. The gesture sketch is important
because:
Mature artists use gesture sketching routinely.
A gesture sketch can be a beautiful artwork in its own right, but it's
also the first raw marks under a highly finished painting.
Gesture sketching can be used as a warm-up and refinement
exercise, just like practicing scales for music, or floor and barre work
for dance.
Gesture sketching is used for active thinking -- Most artists plan
their artworks in a gesture sketching style.
Gesture sketching is essential, not just because it is taught as a first
step in drawing, but because it is central to the art making process.
4. Line of Action
It should take you about two short seconds to assess and make your
line (or two lines) of action.
The line of action is the first, fast, simple mark - or two - that conveys the
extent and direction of the pose.
18. Drawing III and Advanced
Line Quality
Develop Beauty of the Marks
Be able to portray parts of body in space,
perspective without losing loose quality
Adding potential: add a vibration that effects
movement, tension, atmosphere, strength, delicacy,
etc. The marks can be used like idea pathways,
suggesting direction as the drawing moves beyond
the gesture phase.
Add relationship and rhythm
