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Gesture Drawing

Title :Gesture Drawing

Media: Charcoals, papers, few moving pictures 

I was to learn how to move my hand to make a body movement. I wasn’t asked to draw details but just a proportion of the body by using bubbles and frames. Two dancers’ moves were captured and we were given 2minutes for each drawing. Drawing or sketching a move must start with a frame of the body. The whole shape of the body should appear first, and then added with bubbles and joints. It will be smoothed as we find the right line. Folded body will be seen through other parts of the body. It is pretty unrealistic; however, the drawing was to find the right proportion of the body according to different body movements.

At first, my drawing somehow didn’t balance the body proportion—head was relatively bigger than its trunk, legs were unrealistically long. However, as we tried more drawings, I was able to get a concept of how body proportion is arranged. Human figure perception was affected with almost naked dancers. I was able to understand muscles’ difference as the body moves, bones were popped out when certain moves were made, and joints of the body.