Sunday, March 9, 2014

a week of Gesture drawing

Teacher: Niall Laverty

http://nialllaverty.blogspot.dk/

Working with gesture and character design.

Every gesture have to be "translated" to the paper and clarify what's going on. It is not just a model doing a pose you draw - it is a character with a story.

To create this "story" you have to decide on a clear shape, a strong movement/line of action, and how the "Essen" of the drawing would be strongest by using a specific media; soft material or hard material - simple or dark and detailed - what to focus on?

A good exercise to create a simple shaped character is to make cut outs in paper.
This makes you think more about the bigger shapes.

 
 
A big deal was to create characters but at the same time use the model as the main reference for the pose. We used reference by using a character from on of our  earlier comics.
 
 
Other exercises: straight and curves, dynamics, simple shapes ect-
 






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