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Hey, all. Recently I discovered the tutorials of Walt Stanchfield. He taught Disney drawing classes and I became *super-excited* as I read them. He REALLY knows what he's talking about!! So, on my quest to continually improve as an artist, I'm going to be working through these classes, one a week. ^_^

The first one deals with gesture drawing - "Abstracting the Essence" as he called it. Very interesting stuff. People look past gestures because they aren't impressive or super-detailed, but they are vitally important to producing a good drawing. The drawing is built on the gesture, so the detailing and shading (the parts most people notice) won't help the drawing that much since the *initial conception* of the drawing was flawed. The better a gesture is, the better the final drawing will become.

These sketches are just a few of the pics I did. These came out alright. Most were unreadable, which is why I'm working on this to make it better! Haha!

You can see the reference pics I used here --> [link]

EDIT: The PDFs are no longer available for download.

Pencil: 1 min each

Description
Hey, all. Recently I discovered the tutorials of Walt Stanchfield. He taught Disney drawing classes and I became *super-excited* as I read them. He REALLY knows what he's talking about!! So, on my quest to continually improve as an artist, I'm going to be working through these classes, one a week. ^_^

The first one deals with gesture drawing - "Abstracting the Essence" as he called it. Very interesting stuff. People look past gestures because they aren't impressive or super-detailed, but they are vitally important to producing a good drawing. The drawing is built on the gesture, so the detailing and shading (the parts most people notice) won't help the drawing that much since the *initial conception* of the drawing was flawed. The better a gesture is, the better the final drawing will become.

These sketches are just a few of the pics I did. These came out alright. Most were unreadable, which is why I'm working on this to make it better! Haha!

You can see the reference pics I used here --> [link]

EDIT: The PDFs are no longer available for download.

Pencil: 1 min each