Gesture drawings are quick, energetic, all-encompasing overview of form in their entirety. The drawings are usually no more than 30 seconds to 2 minutes, and are often used as structural studies for longer drawings. You will also use gesture drawing in thumbnail compositional studies.
When you begin gesture drawing, you will focus on the entire form or structure of your study and dismiss surface details. This make take you away from your interest in objective drawing, but gesture is the most efficient way of extracting the unique arrangement of forms and essential character of your subject.
Examples of Gesture
Honoré Daumier
Riot Scene (1871), pen and ink wash
Henry Moore
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Moore
Sheep Study (1972), etching
The Artist's Hand V (1979), Lithograph on paper
Etching by Henry Moore of an elephant skull, produced in the 1960s and printed as an album in 1970.
Eugene Delacroix
Lion Devouring a Hare (1851), red chalk
Lion Attacking a Boar (1851), red chalk
Alberto Giacometti
Artist's Mother (1951), graphite
Untitled (1956), engraving
Annette Sewing (1954), graphite
Rico Lebrun
Claus Oldenberg
Pat Reading in Bed, Lenox (1959), crayon
Bicycle on Ground (1959), crayon
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