My first advice to any aspiring artist is to get proficient at gesture drawing. Once you have a figure mannequin worked out, you need to play with it, and learn how it moves. Gestures are the fastest and best way to do that.
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Who was the artist that you said at 7:19?
Also David ur one of my favourite artists
You rank no.1 on my list
I just got one of your books
The dark knight golden dawn
Joe madds work makes me wanna throw in the towel lol
rofl…I slowed the playback speed so I could see the movements better and he sounds either drunk or sleepy!
Thanks for sharing your talent!
Owefull lessions. Thank you sir.
THANK YOU BRO THIS Reilly help me can you make a other one
First I like to say you have talent! But this is not true gesture sketching. This is a group of memorized poses from your years of experience your demonstrating. For the novice artist this would look like magic. Gesture is sketching/drawing is normally taught from observing a live model to quickly get the essence of the pose as fast as possible with a few key lines.
where DARK SOULS's Pointeth Downward?
Really appreciate the teaching style. Your videos have been very helpful. ive been struggling with the planning stages of my drawings for some time now.
Thanks, David. I'm so glad I found this channel. Your figures look like Bridgeman's "wedging" construction. I'm a big fan of teaching with Bridgeman & Loomis, but especially Bridgeman bc I feel like the act of merely copying it is effective. If we get an artist who is weak on gesture or construction I make them copy Bridgeman 3x. It never fails to yield improvement. I think it's how he puts the figure in a box & makes u imagine it as lego type blocks & columns
1:50 looks like brigmanns book on figure drawing
hey Mr. Finch do you have a video explaining how to draw characters that are interacting eg; in a conflict or in a conversation, etc.?
PS: just saw this vid and it gave a lot of good pointers so… thanks
画得太好了
You are my favorite artist 😌
@David Finch I recently became a fan of your artwork and if I may ask you could do a tutorial on how to do a compositional sketch with a superhero team of some kind of course, if you were to do that type of composition you could make the team the X-Men and the big character could be Juggernaut as if his big hand is about to engulf the entire team and crush the life out of every single team member, just a suggestion or if you were to do the justice League for your composition you could make them fight Darkseid as he’s a bigger more lumbering type of villain and I thought either way it would make it easier for tutorial purposes if you didn’t have to like you said in this video draw a billion different buildings.
I feel cheated I did not know you were on youtube until a few weeks ago I had my first Monday draw last week and it was awesome you even answered me live I will see you Monday dude blessings…
Do you have a video that shows what basic shapes are easier to use when drawing a human
Put basic shapes on the gesture drawings?
video opens on unrealistic, muscular adonis bodies "i'm a professional comics artist" …. yanno we probably coulda guessed! thanks for the gesture tips!
Cool
I don't like drawing from life because people tend to misinterpret why I am glancing at them and it creates awkward moments.
Drawing the tubes without the circle ends.
Rick Leonardi is my favorite Comics gesture guy 🙂 Spiderman 2099 man! Along with Al Williamson to the Ink, that was classy combo.
What’s the name of your pencil?
You were one of my largest influences when I was a teen. I would study your panels for hours, so getting these videos from the man himself is kind of a dream come true.
It looks so easy :c
I actually tried this gesture drawing with quickpose image reference
It went well but still pretty tricky and I think too much during
Whether this is indendrd for reference or not it's quite a good direction I would like to go into
This guy knows what he's doing.
Thank you so much, you helped me with my final gestures project. Grateful we have artists like you who generously shares their skills.
what pencil is that
Thank you so much David.
Loomis and who else?
Simplified block and cylinder figure.
Joe Maduriera is pretty good, but Frazetta is just like….in another realm….Superheroes and all that…yeah…we get it… body builders with capes … sure they have a place….but fantasy comic art is the nexus of comic art. Not superheroes with super strength who are now omnipresent in all the universes and all powerful and all this and all that ad nauseam. I dunno, having grown up with comics in the late 60s forward, part of the fun of superheroes was finding their super weakness, which today they have none. Death itself can't kill them, which makes the entire genre lame as f*k. Why tell the story – you KNOW they can't die. Because if they do, they'll be respawned – guaranteed. Oh well, comics have gotten way, way, way too complex, and quite frankly STUPID AND Politically Correct over the years. I love comic art. I now hate comic books – the direction the big two have gone – that being Marvel and DC. The greed has sucked comic books dry, pretty soon, you won't be able to draw a comic character without paying royalties – don't laugh – look at the music industry if you don't know what I'm talking about. Corporations are psychopaths. That's not a joke. They are psychopaths. They have no concern over anything but profits. They'll promote, cancel, ban, censure, copyright, trademark, steal, swindle, and patent as long as it makes profits. And of course, mass murder. They have zero conscience. You think "defense" contractors like JPL, Boeing, Raytheon etc cares how many people are killed in wars? Nope. They just make the bullets – and suck up the profits from bullet making.
14:30 what kind of sorcery is that?
They're like little Bridgman drawings.
Teacher what up ive havent seen you for a long time or you good love your tips make my art tock and you or a good teacher be cool looking for you more…
I have learned all this but couldn't put it together! so thank you I now understand
Thanks you for this. My gesture drawing is really bad. Really working hard for it.
I can’t do it no matter how i try..
not with my left hand…
I love David Finch. He bought his Gnomon courses long time ago. Even in this course he did say that reference is a bit of a waste. Listened to him and got stuck. (This video might be an extract from the Gnomon Video)
While he said "Reference is tedious", he also said to go out and look at people, to look at comic books. For drawing in the environment he did say to check comics, magazine and life.
One way or another, you need to build your image bank in your head to be able to draw poses on command like he does and reference is the way go to. Now reference can be from the web, go sit in a café, comics, magazine, from life drawing classes, etc.
He worked for a long time in the industry and this is why he can just draw from imagination like this.
Maybe discrediting reference is okay for a pro artist like he is, but for a beginner, use life, use comics, use reference. Build your Visual Library.
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how many times a week must a pro guy try to practice skethes? thx.
Another awesome tips. Thank you☺️💕🙏🏻
Omg thank u, i spotted something that I was wrong on drawing gestures, thxthx
The title is miss leading, this is technically not gesture drawing. This is form blocking and analysis of form more than it is a gesture. Gesture drawing is far looser and only defines the movement and dominant line through the body ..
You’re style is good but miss representing a technique.
These are basically drawing a simplified skeleton.
You have no idea how much this has helped me out
They're like Michael Hampton's gesture drawings.