Gesture Drawings (BIG DL)

[Sakievich]

Now that I'm instutionalized with my BFA Illustration from Brigham Young University, the BYU animation program has asked me to teach a couple sections of gesture drawing for their animators. Each class is three hours long and they put them back to back (the secretary was very proud of this), so I'm drawing 6 hours of gestures twice a week for a total of 12 hours a week.

One is a freshmen course, VA131, in which we develop concepts of drawing quickly utilizing skeletal figures, adding volumes (cylinders, egg shapes, wedges, etc.), line quality, merging the volumes together, etc.

The other is an upperclassmen course VAANM 350R, in which we continue to develop those skills from the freshmen course while adding in extended poses (10 and 20 minutes) and oppurtunities for what I call "adapted figure drawing" (i.e. exageratted poses, creative poses, character designs) where we use the model as a reference to develop something else.

They are done with conte crayons 2B, conte pencils 2B, and smooth newsprint.

I've picked a number of my drawings from this semester to share. Let me know what you think. The drawings are from 10 seconds to 10 minutes, with one ten minute pose that I continued to develop after the model had changed positions.

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[jetpack42]

wow, thanks for posting these up! They are great! I'm going to try and eye them over and absorb in the next few days! shweeeeeeeet!!!!!

[emily g]

Oh man, I didn't know you were teaching up there, too. I think it would be really fun to teach a class. I stopped by Seegmiller's painting class and joined in the other day, but I've just been too busy to go back.
I need my figure drawing . . . it's my favorite thing to do.

emily

[Sakievich]

Gotta love figure drawing, even in a shorthand method like this.

[killing.people]

fucking awesome, the line quality is insane. nice work.

[wcr]

Really, really nice.

Gotta ask: what's the third one from the bottom?

[Sakievich]

The guy is bending forward with his hand over his head, I think I had 30 seconds, or until I told the model to change.

[Main Loop]

Wow, your website is awesome! what kind of surfaces do you work on for gouache?

[Sakievich]

Gouache sketches were done on Canson Canva Paper, it has a simulated canvas texture on the paper. I also like to stain it, before I use it, with a light wash of acrylic paint, very light.

Here are some pen sketches from class this evening.

A couple are from a trip we took to a natural history museum to draw the dead stuffed animals a couple weeks ago.

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[Main Loop]

the canvas paper, is it regular paper with canvas texture, or is it like that painting paper that comes gesso-primed?

really great loose pen gestures.. fun to look at

[Sakievich]

canvA paper by canson

http://www.dickblick.com/zz089/12/products.asp?ig_id=587

that's what it is.

[dark pop toy]

you dont happen to know ryan woodward do you?

[Sakievich]

yeah, he normally teaches the 350R class that i'm teaching, he's off starting his MFA this semester.

http://www.ryanwoodwardart.com/

there's Ryan's site, he's worked on little films like Spiderman 2 and the Iron Giant.

[Main Loop]

oh ok cool i know what that stuff is.. thanks

[dark pop toy]

yeah, he normally teaches the 350R class that i'm teaching, he's off starting his MFA this semester.



wow that's very cool.. yea i thought your style looked very familiar and was wondering if there was a connection =) apparently a very close one haha.