Proko – The Gesture Course – Michael Hampton
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Gesture drawing is a fundamental skill that bridges the gap between abstraction and representation. It’s about capturing the essence, movement, and story of a figure with intentional lines. By focusing on the why, what, and how of gesture, we can create drawings that are dynamic and expressive. Using the 16-line approach you’ll learn how to draw any difficult pose. You’ll be comfortable depicting the body dynamically including hands and feet!
A Course to Give You a Blueprint for Gesture Drawing
Core Concepts: Focus on the skeletal design of the figure, emphasizing asymmetry, rhythm, and the distribution of weight and balance.
The 16-Line Approach: Explore a methodical way to start gesture drawings using intentional lines and wrapping lines to indicate form and volume.
Tackling Complex Poses: Gain techniques for handling difficult perspectives, including foreshortening and effective exaggeration.
and more! Check out the What You’ll Learn section below
Why Does Gesture Matter?
When artists struggle with gesture, their drawings can look stiff and lifeless, missing the flow and movement that make a pose feel alive. Weak gesture skills lead to static, dull compositions, make it harder to plan complex scenes, and limit the ability to show action or emotion clearly. Focusing too much on gesture might sometimes throw off proportions, but ignoring it completely breaks the natural balance of a figure and weakens the artwork’s ability to tell a strong story.
What is Gesture?
Gesture captures the skeletal design of the figure, focusing on the eight main parts: head, neck, torso, pelvis, arms, and legs. It highlights natural asymmetry and fluid rhythmic lines within the body. By studying these elements, we can illustrate how weight and balance are distributed, which is essential in gesture drawing.
Who am I?
I’m Steven Michael Hampton, and I’ve been teaching drawing and anatomy for 25 years. I’ve worked with Art Center, Anatomy Tools, LCAD, Blizzard Entertainment, and Lucas Film. Drawing has been my life’s passion, and I’ve approached it as a technician/illustrator, a fine artist, and an art historian. I’m intrigued by how the technical aspects of drawing support both entertainment and fine art conceptual practices, and how drawing, often seen as a lesser genre, fits into art history. I’ve earned degrees in illustration, fine art, and art history, and I’ve completed my PhD.
What you will learn
1Gesture Fundamentals
Learn the relationship between abstraction and representation to start your gestures off right.
2Skeletal Structure and Gesture
Discover Hampton’s 8 parts of the body and how it can make learning proportions and the skeletal structure easy.
3The 16-Line Approach
Draw the 16 line figure that will let you draw any pose with rhythm and asymmetry. An excellent entry point to develop a gesture.
4Difficult Poses
Practice tackling difficult poses and learn techniques to take them on without fear!
5Practice Strategies
Get practical tips on creating proportion charts, conducting master studies, and drawing from varied sources to improve your skills.
6Master Studies
Learn from masters of the past and present as we analyze figures from classical drawings, modern comic books, and video games.
7Distribution of Weight and Balance
Focus on how weight is distributed across the body and how to capture balance effectively in your figures.
8Hands and Feet
Get insight into how to simplify some of the most complicated and expressive parts of the figure.
9Alternative to Gestures
There’s more than one way to draw a gesture! We’ll practice the shape method that will help you with figure constructions and advanced modeling.
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