Honestly one of the biggest parts of good gesture drawing feels like the mileage. I've been doing 100 days of timed gesture drawing practice, and on day 50 it's getting very easy to see where the shapes, alignments, and rhythms are.
I completely second this. I've been doing gesture drawing for 7 years now. Probably once a week on average, but I often go through spurts where I do them online 3-5 times per week. The human brain is naturally very good at finding patterns on its own. After a while, you start to notice shortcuts and start taking bigger, more confident risks to get the whole gesture down in timed sessions. I've learned quite a lot about flow, anatomy, and form just from gesture drawing.
I'm a beginner trying to get into art, sorry but usually how long do you spend on gesture drawing? I'm not sure how long to spend for efficient practice
@@onlyfireg3119 2 hour sessions consistently will really level you up. During the week I can only really do 30-45 minute sessions but that just keeps me sharp for 2 hr sessions on the weekends. Focus mostly on 1-2 minute poses.
9:40 And without even trying Stan creates both a sense of depth (which he explains) and a core of shape design in making three distinguishable big, medium and small shapes (which he doesn't go into): Look into the 'triangles' formed by the 'creases'
this video helped me with every problem i had with gesture for some reasons. details, for starters i always had a problem knowing what details to add or not to add, i add too much its a mess, if i add too little what i drew made no sense, but thanks to this video i now know to try and look for important details only. accuracy, I've always tried to stick to the image as exact as possible, but now i realized that with gesture you can slightly adjust the shape into something that looks more appealing and interesting. depth, i never knew how to create depth in a gesture drawing, turns out the answer is just creases. Thank you for making gesture fun for me stan. -banana
as a beginner who has just started drawing recently, gestures affect the result a lot, especially when you try to break an object into simple shapes and fail to organize them based on perspective and break the flow, the outcome is weird, although sometimes it's hard to think about what shape you should break the part into... so art is not just practice but also the long-term of studying about a lot of things....Btw, thanks for sharing
This video is a god send. I love seals (it’s pretty obvious) and I’ve been meaning to learn and practice for my art- specifically gestures and such because I tend to be very rigid with it and it’s so time consuming whenever I draw bodies and poses @_@ I just want to say thank you so much for this video!! And for your existence!! You’re tremendously helpful to everyone here!!
cant help but feel Proko is truly the junction point for artist and these videos prove it more and more :D great lessons, im definitely getting the course when i have the time to go trough it xD
I've begun to study gesture drawing since I've noticed my basic structures look flat. This video gave me a good direction to take and I look forward to practicing drawing more seals!
I guess I am pretty close to understand what gesture really is. I am that type of person, that loves math, phisics, measuring etc. but has no idea how to do something more advanced. Perspective, construction, anatomy, all of that seems to be easy for me, but gesture is like different type of art, I understand your words, but it never really made any sens for me. Now, I am understanding more and more, but still it's like magic. Thank you for giving me another chance to get a little bit closer to learn gesture!
15:34 woah I had he exact same thought during this process. I've noticed something that I wouldn't have before, is this what they call progress? 😂 thank you for sharing these videos for free 👊
Cant wait for the the free hand perspective! been going through erik Olson's course at new masters academy on technical perspective and its driving me up a wall lol. slowly digesting it, it like 120 hours, but the only in depth source i can find atm.
thx dor the great tips! take some good rest and care of your self! i se tiredness in your eyes! you work a lot, but also don't forget to stop dor moment and enjoy life!
The way this video is edited and paced is exactly what the Drawing Basics course is like! This is most of a lesson from that course. If you enjoy it, give the course a look: www.proko.com/basics
as a (maybe) intermediate artist, idk if i should be watching this, ik gesture drawing but wanna get better, its not something i touched on much, well i did, but coming out of artblock ive lost a bit of skill, not much but i lost some character design knowledge and gesture drawing knowledge. im relearning the few things i lost skill in so i can get back on track.
I have been told my drawings are a lot like looney tunes. When you said "focus on the gesture, not the outlines" I was like "the outline is the gesture lol".
I am guilty of drawing outlines instead of gestures. Maybe I should take a break from quick gestures until I actually understand how to do them properly.
If you enjoyed this demo, check out my previous lesson on How to Draw Interesting Shapes - ruclips.net/video/ID8r0OhiYe0/видео.htmlsi=cHNiN9oTSNCt4nUU
Thanku so much sir.....💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛
Love your teachings!
"Focus on the gesture not the outlines" one minute in and I know now why my poses are stiff. Your videos are really helpful and easily understood
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yeah that work.dor me.too
Free reference?!
It's like the old days of the anatomy course again!
man... I love proko
We do what we can!
I'm very mad at you Proko. I have gone from wanting to be a concept artist, to wanting to be a seal artist
Looking forward to all your seal concept art now lol
I totally didn't expect that seals would improve my gesture drawing. I was mistaken.
Honestly one of the biggest parts of good gesture drawing feels like the mileage. I've been doing 100 days of timed gesture drawing practice, and on day 50 it's getting very easy to see where the shapes, alignments, and rhythms are.
I completely second this. I've been doing gesture drawing for 7 years now. Probably once a week on average, but I often go through spurts where I do them online 3-5 times per week.
The human brain is naturally very good at finding patterns on its own. After a while, you start to notice shortcuts and start taking bigger, more confident risks to get the whole gesture down in timed sessions. I've learned quite a lot about flow, anatomy, and form just from gesture drawing.
Thank for advice❤
I'm a beginner trying to get into art, sorry but usually how long do you spend on gesture drawing? I'm not sure how long to spend for efficient practice
@@onlyfireg3119 2 hour sessions consistently will really level you up. During the week I can only really do 30-45 minute sessions but that just keeps me sharp for 2 hr sessions on the weekends.
Focus mostly on 1-2 minute poses.
9:40 And without even trying Stan creates both a sense of depth (which he explains) and a core of shape design in making three distinguishable big, medium and small shapes (which he doesn't go into): Look into the 'triangles' formed by the 'creases'
Drawing seals is a brilliant idea!
this video helped me with every problem i had with gesture for some reasons.
details,
for starters i always had a problem knowing what details to add or not to add, i add too much its a mess, if i add too little what i drew made no sense, but thanks to this video i now know to try and look for important details only.
accuracy,
I've always tried to stick to the image as exact as possible, but now i realized that with gesture you can slightly adjust the shape into something that looks more appealing and interesting.
depth,
i never knew how to create depth in a gesture drawing, turns out the answer is just creases.
Thank you for making gesture fun for me stan.
-banana
That sign at the end truly made me cry
@@sleeper6548 I'm not an onion bro
-banana
as a beginner who has just started drawing recently, gestures affect the result a lot, especially when you try to break an object into simple shapes and fail to organize them based on perspective and break the flow, the outcome is weird, although sometimes it's hard to think about what shape you should break the part into... so art is not just practice but also the long-term of studying about a lot of things....Btw, thanks for sharing
Currently learning about gesture drawings and how to draw them. Perfect timing!
This video is a god send. I love seals (it’s pretty obvious) and I’ve been meaning to learn and practice for my art- specifically gestures and such because I tend to be very rigid with it and it’s so time consuming whenever I draw bodies and poses @_@
I just want to say thank you so much for this video!! And for your existence!! You’re tremendously helpful to everyone here!!
Is your name a reference to both seals and filipino bread? Because that makes my filipino heart happy
cant help but feel Proko is truly the junction point for artist and these videos prove it more and more :D great lessons, im definitely getting the course when i have the time to go trough it xD
This actually makes it easier to see the line of action
need more demo like this, where you apply gesture not on figure, but other things like animal, body part, etc
They are really fun to draw thank you for the advice
I've begun to study gesture drawing since I've noticed my basic structures look flat. This video gave me a good direction to take and I look forward to practicing drawing more seals!
I guess I am pretty close to understand what gesture really is. I am that type of person, that loves math, phisics, measuring etc. but has no idea how to do something more advanced. Perspective, construction, anatomy, all of that seems to be easy for me, but gesture is like different type of art, I understand your words, but it never really made any sens for me. Now, I am understanding more and more, but still it's like magic. Thank you for giving me another chance to get a little bit closer to learn gesture!
El hombre la leyenda el mito Stan prokopiko
15:34 woah I had he exact same thought during this process. I've noticed something that I wouldn't have before, is this what they call progress? 😂 thank you for sharing these videos for free 👊
YES!
i wanna learn a lot from you.. please keep uploading videos like this!
How has NO ONE made a full series of JUST seals? I feel like this can save people years on anatomy!
WHAT PERFECT TIMING!!! I was practicing my gesture drawing right now after looking a mike mattesi force series
This is soooo important and sooooo well made by stan I'm getting this course 100%
Can't wait to see you in there!
The seal theme is brilliant!!!
Now this is epic
Exactly, this is how you sell classes. Have me signing up
Very much so
You're easily impressed.
@@MauricioGarcia-yv2in Life in general is more fun that way
A lot of love to you from the Beautiful Islands of Trinidad and Tobago 💞. Great content.
This helped me out a lot for drawing better gestures. Really sealed the deal!
"It's a detail, but if it adds so much to the gesture, it's not a detail!" is my new favorite art mantra.
This information is going to be put to some serious use day ONE. This is a fundamental for SURE.
Cant wait for the the free hand perspective! been going through erik Olson's course at new masters academy on technical perspective and its driving me up a wall lol. slowly digesting it, it like 120 hours, but the only in depth source i can find atm.
1:15 that is one majestic seal.
Wow. Coming off the Anatomy course to the present day Proko is kinda jarring. You look and feel so much sterner now, damn
Great explanation of your thought process!
this is SO well explained!! this is the way i WISH i could explain my process, lol. thank you for sharing!
I may do anime art style but your videos gave me a lot of art exp.
thank you, this is just what i needed right now!! and thank you for free reference!)
I'm grateful for this video
This will also work good as warm up before figure drawing.
Hi Proko, your video inspiring me to make the right angle to make video too. I love your work, thank you!
Awesome! Thank you!
Dear sir
Your all Videos are very very valuable
Respect from India
Thanks!
5:30 Auto aim kicked in when drawing the eye on the seal! That was smoooth.
I love your videos and my drawing got significantly good with your teachings thank you sir
Glad they help!
The 20 people that disliked this video draw the outlines. Not the gestures.
Another great video out the gate. Love the content @proko you defo should be a guest on the podcast
Thanks Stan!
Amazing lesson. :) Love it
thx dor the great tips! take some good rest and care of your self! i se tiredness in your eyes! you work a lot, but also don't forget to stop dor moment and enjoy life!
Proko's the reason why my drawings don't look mediocre and flat as it used to be.
very helpful and entertaining to watch at the same time
Good Stuff Proko! Thank you for the brief gesture drawing video. It was helpful.
Proko's stark digital 100% white background scares me.
this channel is the best
The video editing is very engaging, I hope the Proko premium course is similar!
The way this video is edited and paced is exactly what the Drawing Basics course is like! This is most of a lesson from that course.
If you enjoy it, give the course a look:
www.proko.com/basics
Crazy tutorial I learned so much!!
so interesting and instructive, thank you.
THANK YOU FOR THIS! Had no idea how I was going to do my intro to anatomy without overwhelming everyone 😅🎉
I am so grateful you've chosen animals. For me, it is more comfortable, than humans=) Plus there is a lot of useful information, thank you so much=)
This is sooo amazing...thank youu !!
Isso vai me ajudar num futuro muito próximo😊
Thank you very much everything you said makes total sense to me
I have a question for you guys. How long should i focus on seals before moving on to people? Or is this just a form of warmup?
This really helped thank you man
Thanks for teaching
amazing video, gesture just never clicks for me, but ill keep drawing seals till something does
The Idea of the Seal was smart
Extremly highly amazingly helpful!!!
After I wachet dis vid I so good now tanks soo much ❤❤❤
I m so good
Sir I am big fan of you . I love your videos and I have learnt so much from you❤❤
This is great, thank you.
Thank you for the great ideas.
as a (maybe) intermediate artist, idk if i should be watching this, ik gesture drawing but wanna get better, its not something i touched on much, well i did, but coming out of artblock ive lost a bit of skill, not much but i lost some character design knowledge and gesture drawing knowledge. im relearning the few things i lost skill in so i can get back on track.
This video is amazing!!!
you have good tip in the video
Hey, important questions, why do you use a caryon color pencil instead of graphite, is it because it gives more control in movement.
cause it helps him stay in the sketching mood. ruclips.net/user/shortsBh59wG6Of_c?si=BgoxQUvxXxjEGnsM
7:31 looks like his chest is going *POO!* Like *WOW!!* Moving to this direction *flies away*
I love art
proko when my art is good enough I wanna be on your channel
Looking forward to it!
Very helpful
Brilliant!!!!
Yayy for seals!
Please please make a background foreground and midground please
This lesson's focused on the character but we'll definitely get there in these basics lessons where we have to incorporate those elements!
@@ProkoTV I can't believe my favourite teacher reply me thank you for your reply very appreciated sir
i need a hundred more videos about this by tmo.
Working on it!
@@ProkoTV the seal was a great choice. Helps me a lot
Red and blue pencil
May the science of happiness be with you.
Look at this Beard Situation. Stan be stylin 🙃😎
Quality? Quality.
Amazing channel🎭🎭🎭🎭🎭🎭🎇🎇
Seals. Cool.
What drawing pencil are you using?
Prismacolor Col Erase
Where can I find the course he talked about at the beginning of the video?where exactly?
www.proko.com/drawing
This is a lot like the Force method by Michael Mattesi
I have been told my drawings are a lot like looney tunes. When you said "focus on the gesture, not the outlines" I was like "the outline is the gesture lol".
I am still having difficulty discerning between following contours and following gesture.
How too create style with gesture drawings
I wonder if these are La Jolla seals. They seem to have that SoCal "look at me" attitude.
oof I am slacking on the course, time to get back to it D:
Nice
Interesting
I am guilty of drawing outlines instead of gestures. Maybe I should take a break from quick gestures until I actually understand how to do them properly.
what about the comicon videos?