The Figure Drawing – Rapid Sketche

When drawing the figure, you will find that the most spontaneous and immediate drawings you will produce are during the gestural drawing stage, which are normally between 1 and five minutes. This is because rapid sketches encourage the act of capturing the essence of the pose; forcing you to focus on gesture and movement, which will help you to develop a sense of rhythm and flow in your drawings.

What’s more, by working quickly, the short poses will force you to observe and analyse the subject more efficiently so that you can experiment with more spontaneous different ways of capturing and expressing the most important characteristics of the model’s form, posture, and action.

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