Get the Hang of the Gesture - For Beginners and Reentries

🎨 Course Title: Get the Hang of the Gesture - For Beginners and Reentries

Course Headline

"Learn how to draw beautiful and dynamic gestures with a working easy-to-follow step-by-step approach."

Course Description

"Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic." - Keith Haring

The essence of figure drawing lies in the Gesture. Often confused with mere scribbles, gesture drawing is a focused, deliberate, and incredibly enjoyable process. In my other bestselling course, I guided you through the intricacies of figure drawing, and this time, I'm diving deep into the heart of it all - the Gesture.

This course is designed to take you from the basics to a more advanced understanding of gesture drawing. I will lead you in small steps through the entire drawing process, ensuring that by the end, you'll have drawn and understood a variety of static and dynamic poses, ranging from simple to complex.

Key Features:

• Warm Up Exercises: To get your hand and mind ready for drawing.
• Tricks of the Trade Tutorials: These will cover essential concepts like foreshortening, twist, turn, and more, along with necessary anatomy to enhance your gestural basis.
• Preparation Tutorials: A crucial part of the course that will equip you with all the knowledge needed for the following modules.

Throughout the course, we will draw from a wide array of reference images, and you'll gain insight into the entire process. The Tricks of the Trade Tutorials will delve into important drawing concepts and anatomy, ensuring that your gestural drawings not only look great but are also anatomically accurate.

We'll analyze finished drawings to understand what works and where there's room for improvement, and I'll guide you on how to enhance them. Additionally, we'll use painting brushes to capture the volume of the gesture and then draw over it with a fountain pen.

I have compiled a selection of timed poses ranging from 30 seconds to 5 minutes, which will challenge and improve your skills. Please remember that this course features reference images of nude models, so I expect mature conduct during the course.

By the end of the course, you will be equipped to execute beautiful gesture drawings, which can stand alone as pieces of art or serve as a solid foundation for further development.

So, let's embark on this creative journey together - I look forward to seeing you inside the course!

Happy sketching, Udo Rutschmann