I stumbled across this site today, aptly named “The Daily Figure” where this artist posts… err….a daily figure each day. Pretty nice…it certainly reminds me of the early gestural drawings we had to practice in art classes. If you’ve never taken an art class before…gestural art is the practice of just using lines and quick strokes to capture the motion of the object you’re drawing. Often we were told not to look at our paper but just concentrate on the figure and just let our pencils do the work.
Anyway, these figures are beautiful. Especially if he’s just doing it straight up without any reference models. I envy folks who can do body poses and expressions, it’s always been my area of weakness.
This gestural drawing exercise wasn’t half as hard when you were a young college student staring at a nude lady in class. Trust me.
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