Learning to Fly

Learning to Fly
Painted 06/29/2014

Friday, May 30, 2014

100 Brush Pen Gestures

I set out to ink a hundred figures with the brush pen. I used http://www.characterdesigns.com/ and Louis' blog as a stylistic reference <http://louislearnstodraw.blogspot.com>. He, in turn, learned from Michael Hampton. I won't pick up the brush pen again until I'm ready to practice shading.

The point of gestures is economy of line. It becomes a balancing act: too few lines and it becomes difficult to intuit what the figure is doing, too many lines and it becomes a tangled, impractical mess. Develop a technique whereby, with as few lines a possible, you can record a gesture to dig up years later and know how to fully articulate.


 
  
  


  

  

  

  




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