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Ok guys, so we will start with gesture and

simplificaiton. And in this part, we will

focus mostly in what is gesture and who

this technique for. And study natural poses

apply to or work because it's a technique that

help us to understand the movement lines.

And how they apply the different poses when we are

doing and studying and trying to make.

Because of the gesture to really

make all poses really, really dynamic

fast and

you understand all the

body movement completely.

And how to simplify

that body because we don't have a lot of

time for make those kind of exercise.

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Because they are really fast exercise.

And while we will be studying and

focusing on course in gesture. And why

it's all first part of the course.

Because from my experience, make

gesture and studying this

kind of technique

helping me a lot for make my poses more

dynamic and how simplify my work. Because

you need to think right now that when we

start to draw, when we usually work

more slowly than usual. And it's a bit

tidious and frustrating to people that

they want to draw more fast.

Or at least, they want to

sketch their ideas faster

and gesture usually helps with that a lot.

And help a lot also for simply the

different parts of the body to add

the information we need. And not make

everything confusing because

when we are studying poses,

we usually stop a lot in the different

details of the anatomy we are seeing and

the shadows and the skin and stuff like

that. So those stuff is really nice to

study. But when we want to show already

as or focusing on character pose, it's

really difficult to focus only in one thing

because we are having a lot of new

information that we are seeing.

So objective of this part really

focusing in what we will be

doing

in sketches.

And what we want to show in the lines.

And how to focus or might simplify

everything.

Especially because

In our work

when you are working in animation

or when you are working in storyboard,

the idea not is

stop in all the details you can't show

in a character because

you don't have time for that.

Especially when you are working for a

company, especially when you are working

in a project that have deadlines. You don't

have a lot of time for show your ideas.

So the better thing here is try to focus

on special ideas fast.

And they show me

clear for others because

you almost working alone.

That it's not really important for me here.

So for that reason,

we will be focusing everything in

gesture as base

of all. No less for improve

our sketches and line art.

So let's start

with first part of this course that is

gesture.

So what is gesture exactly? Gesture is a

form of study poses from natural in a fast,

simplificated way. And what that means

we are not focused in anatomy or details

here. So if you are looking at a pose,

you can't stop in only the face.

Or in the hair or in the clothes or in the

five fingers of

the hand. You know,

we need to focus in the general pose.

Here only matter is the movement

of the body.

So it's the only thing we need to look at.

Here the case is accurate.

Also because we don't have time

for look the pose. Because gesture exercise

we usually make when we are studying poses.

But we only have

30 seconds or 1 minute for do it.

It's a really fast exercise.

So here it is really important that

we focus in simplificate what we want to

splash in the paper and

how we are seeing. That is the most

important thing. So

gesture is

for not lost in the details.

So how can we face gesture? Or

how can we start with gesture?

Ok, I will put here an example.

And here we have a girl posing. Usually

it's better when you are doing your studies

for gesture that you have the body

completely. Why is that? Because

for person that already have experience

drawing body, they have an idea of how are

anatomy, or how are proportion. If you are

not that kind of person that have already an

idea of the proportion and you are starting

here, the better recommendation here is

take poses that will have all the anatomy

clear. For example, here we have a dress.

And we don't have really clear who works

this leg.

For me, not really a problem because I can

recognize what is the movement or the pose

of the leg by itself. But for a person that

don't have experience, maybe it's a bit

difficult. So right now, we will not talk

about that. But something important and

you need to have in mind.

But for now, we will work with

this girl posing.

And

how we can start with this gesture study.

In this gesture study, we need to

first have in consideration

what we are talking about.

That this exercise is about

30 seconds

or 1 minute.

You can also have exercise of

1 minute and half.

But the better is

that you work with

these two options.

And how we can

work

with that little time because it's really

short time. You, usually when you are

drawing, you are not going to spend 30 seconds

to make a pose. You usually spend

10 minutes, 20 minutes in drawing your

idea. Here comes the fact that

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in details that no art give you

last information we want.

What we want from the pose is they now see,

the movement.

So for example, if I want to study gesture

here, I will only focus, for example,

in make the hair.

Recognize different

torso parts

for make

the pose.

The hip.

And the arms. And there it is.

So this is a really rough version of

what is gesture. But

how we can

start with this. What other objects or

what I need to look at for make my study.

The first you need to know is you need

to recognize the principle lines

of the torso.

The guidelines of the torso

because the head is really easy

to recognize.

Because it's just usually you make

like eyellipse.

You don't need to add details or something

like that. No, we don't care about that.

Here we are not studying faces proportions.

Here we are not studying the form of the

head. And what are the parts of the head.

The, the hair.

How looks the hair, you know.

Stuff like that we don't care about that.

We only care about the body pose and

body movement. So head is like eyellipse

and it's done.

And what lines we need to recognize here.

Well, the first line is

this one

that are in the shoulders.

It's really easy to recognize because

always the shoulders

will show us

how the line is. Except if the pose is

like something like this.

That maybe it's a bit difficult but.

But you have a shoulder that is

more up than the other one.

Not this is a problem really because

the curve of the

torso that is in the shoulders will be

something like this.

So not this is a problem really.

So

we have the line of the shoulders.

And what is the other line?

The other line will be in the hips.

And we can recognize it

by this bone where the leg

bone. We can say something like that.

And it will be something like this, ok?

In this case. So we have two lines that

will be organized. So it's like eyellipse

for the head.

Shoulder line

and hip line.

Ok?

And how we can

make the torso here?

Ok, we need to recognize also these parts.

So

we need to recognize also

the line of the waist

here.

And then we can

put everything together.

So here we have the torso. And

looks really easy at first to look at. But

what is important thing here to recognize.

The principal movement line of the body.

The edge of the body.

What is that? It starts in the head

and ends

in the floor.

Or in the feet.

So you want to

be more clear.

And that line

we mark

how

the movement of the body is.

So we are clear as

here like this, this.

And this.

So with that

information, you already have your

gesture done.

Because this

three information,

these three

principal lines.

This one,

this one,

and this one

will be the case for you to get

really fast

the pose

of the body you are studying.

And to get really fast gesture.

And then if you have ready time

for make extras, you can

have the legs

that. The legs here will be like,

something like this.

We don't care about their form

now. So we don't care. It's like

ok, this body and here.

We have the arms

and the legs.

And there it's done. That is

a really basic idea of how I study gesture.

With this information, you will be able to

make your first studies without problem.

So we have already

the basics for look at the pose

and study the gesture. But

also the gesture is not only that.

It's also a case for exaggerate

the pose we have

as a reference.

So how can we accurate this pose and

make it fast. So what we can do really fast

is taking the reference to

principal line and make something more

crazy.

Right?

Something that

makes the pose

a bit more

exaggerate.

And what

makes

this exaggeration.

Mostly the idea of this exaggeration is

give more energy

to this pose.

As you can see

pose is same but

a bit more

exaggerated this

curve.

If we compare

these lines,

and curve is more esthetic.

Until the pose is really dynamic

and have movement as the first look.

Have a really nice energy.

we can exaggerate it and give more energy.

And we can make that.

Trying to put

the curve of this line more big.

Something like this.

At first, it sounds a bit crazy.

But

in the gesture,

as you can see,

works.

Because again, the idea and now this have

the pose really perfect.

And attach it to the real anatomy

we are looking at.

It's only captured the movement.

And have the idea of how we can

exaggerate the body

for give the energy we want.

Until the pose is esthetic.

You can make pose esthetic

that look more dynamic than usual.

Give life to the character.

So we can feel the character have

a really crazy energy.

And it's only

stand up, you know?

And

have a really good energy.

Also the case for make the pose

really

that have movement.

These lines need also

be exaggerated. And also

always need to be opposite.

Why is that?

Let me explain.

These are

little bit fast.

So

if we have a body

and a torso that

have this shoulder line

and this hip line,

same position.

We will have a really boring

torso. Because it's a really

neutral pose.

And nothing is happening here

as you can see.

Nothing interesting is happening here.

And that is boring.

You know? And usually

you can see these poses

in characters sign and model sheet. But

not this is necessary to make this kind of

poses in a model sheet. You can make

poses more

dynamic

and give them more life.

Instead, the

character is only posing in a normal pose.

For example,

if we have this,

we can make

something more

dynamic.

Like for example,

this line.

We can give some movement,

right?

Have the head.

We change the angle of the shoulders.

And then we need to change

the angle of the hips too.

And there you have

the model sheet pose

different.

And the base idea is the same that

it's presented character in a

more

neutral pose.

But with a little change of

the angles of the body.

Especially the torso that is

the one that gives

how

we will pose

all the wall body. You can have a really

big change of how looks

the character and the energy it has.

And it's only

a little change.

As you can see, we have this.

We only change the angle

for this to this and this to this.

And give a little curve.

So always think

about

the curves and how to not make the body

boring. All the boring things are

something like this.

Also have the curves

as dramatic. It's really important here

especially when you are

starting

because

the curves always give the idea

of movement.

So if we have a regular pose,

you can recognize that

It's maybe a simple pose.

But

why

is having movement

at the same time that is more like

an esthetic pose because we have

the line of the shoulders,

the line of the hips,

opposite.

And the body curve is something like this.

So at first, it will be a bit difficult

to you to start applying that

for your work because

it's something that you will start to think

when you are drawing or you want to apply.

So it's like ok, I am making my sketch.

So

you will be

start to think about those lines

and then start to

work with your

character pose after that.

Right?

And it will be a bit difficult also to

recognize and understand

how it works really.

because you will need to start to practice

a lot of this exercise.

But don't worry, we will be making

some more example here. And also I will

give you some exercises for make you in

home for practice this kind of gesture.

And for you, it will be really helpful

because you will start to understand

how to give more dynamic to the body.

Ok, so here we have another example of

pose reference.

We will start to think about

how we can find the poses that will

help us to practice gesture here.

First thing is that

the better images when you are

starting to draw in and you are

starting to study.

It's the one that you can see really clear,

the parts of the body.

Here I have an example

in that the girl have black clothes.

But we can see really clear

where are the different parts of the body.

Right?

Let me open this.

So we can see the neck.

We can see

the torso.

Right?

Hip.

The legs are also

really clear.

Right? So

my recommendation before you start to study

from poses

of real life or

image you found in internet

is that

the images need to have

the parts of the body really clear

because

we cannot study from

poses that have clothes

and

not will be a really big problem.

But, for example, if this girl have

some

skirt or something like that.

If you are not used to,

you understand

the proportion of the body,

it will be really difficult difference

how the leg will

connect this part with this part.

No, you can make something like. Ok,

the leg make this.

Right?

But you are losing information here.

So

it's better that

the image you use at first are

all with the real

clear part of the body. So you can see

really clear where it starts the arm,

how pose the arm. It's.

So the second thing to have in mind is

we need

for studying gesture poses that

no are esthetic.

You know, we need the body

in movement.

So we don't need image that

the body of the person are

unknown.

Only

sit

in a place or something like that.

Those images

will be helpful in another kind of

exercise like study

anatomy or

how the body

poses itself when it's

in a

esthetic form or something like that.

But

for objective that is

use gesture to give movement and

try to see how the body

gets

more exaggerated with the movement

and the action lines and those stuff.

We need poses that have energy.

So for example,

if there is no movement, but we can

find more

movement poses like this one.

Right?

You can see this and

it's already a movement.

So I think

it's stuff like this that the person is

jumping, the person is running,

the person is making

acrobatic movements.

Those type of

photos,

images, poses from people doing his stuff,

it's the stuff we need to find

for all reference for start

studying gesture.

So this another important point.

Ok? So that is an important thing because

we have this image for example.

And it will be more easy to understand

how is the line

of movement,

right?

And apply

everything we

learn it until now.

From how to

search

the edge line and the movement line

and the line shoulder, the hip show.

The hip line.

And it will be more easy to exaggerate

this also

because we can

do something like this,

like this. And open more gesture.

Move the head,

exaggerate.

The principal line of movement.

And for example, put the arm

more behind.

And there we have a

more exaggerated version.

But again, it will be more difficult

if the pose is esthetic.

Ok?

The esthetic pose will be really helpful

when you are studying anatomy and the details

of the anatomy.

For example,

in this kind of poses.

Right? We have

the body

in a slow movements.

So

the objective here is different than

search

how to make more this pose dynamic.

So

we need to focus on this kind of photos

and this kind of stuff.

And another kind of recommendation

and tips, I will give you these more

personally. You can

take it if you want. But

I will recommend you, you do it

is how we proceed when we are studying this

kind of exercise.

The first thing is that we

need to have a timer.

For start to

counting how many seconds

we take to make this exercise. Like

you need to put the timer in 30 seconds

or in 1 minute.

And when the timer sounds, you need to

know that you can continue your exercise.

You need to change

to make another pose and another

gesture exercise. You need to

go forward, right?

So it's really important that you

don't lie to yourself.

And if the timer sounds and you don't

finish your pose, don't worry. You need to

continue practicing and you will reach

your objective

really soon. So at first, it can be

a bit difficult and maybe you will have

fear to hear that

sound. Or maybe you will be focusing how

many time I have for finish this pose.

Or I need to run or some stuff like that,

don't. Don't do that because it will be.

Your head will be focusing in the time

you have and not in the pose.

You need to do.

So

this I think you will need to learn with

practice again. So

don't worry. It's I think

that will help you a lot.

And you must

do it

for try to make

this kind of exercise. And you will

get

a really big

compensation after that

because you will start to

get those drawings more fast.

And you will start to

have a really nice movement of your hand

and stuff like that.

So I will recommend you

that this exercise

make it with timer.

And when the timer sounds,

you change a pose.

And the other recommendation and

just something that

will be a big difficult

at first

but it's really important for

make all these

learning part

success is

don't

erase.

Not erase, no.

If you are doing this exercise

in paper because it's more easy to you

to have your sketchbook and

you will practice in your sketchbook.

Not have a rubber for clean your lines, no.

Here,

we not use this because you will lose

a lot of time. Remember we have only

30 seconds or 1 minute for our sketch.

So you can't stop.

You can't start to,

for example,

I will

clean this.

For example,

I start to draw something.

And I start with the head, right?

And I start, oh no. I made bad head. Oh ok.

I start again.

And for example. Oh, the head. Ok so

we continue and we make the line.

Oh, I made my bad line.

Oh no, not again.

And no. The time finish it. The time you

are erasing and the time you are

changing again and again and again

the lines. So

the best thing to fix that is like not

erase. Don't erase. No rubber, no.

Don't clean your lines again and again

and again. Because you need to learn

from your mistakes.

So

get used to them.

Don't fight against them

in this way. You need to fight against them

with learn from them like.

Ok.

I am making the head.

I make the shoulder line for example.

Oh no, the angle is bad so

you can change here again.

And then you follow your drawing.

And it's ok because

you have the mistake here.

But from this

you did this other one that it's ok.

So you have here

the improvement. So

not it's a problem to have the mistakes

in the paper.

Right?

So try

to not use

the erase. Not use the rubber.

Try to learn from your mistakes. Try to not

only think you did something bad

because we will always make things bad.

You will be drawing 10 years and you will

still make mistakes.

So don't worry about those because

it's like if you find that you are doing a

mistake and you fix it.

It's because you are learning,

you are recognizing the mistake.

And you are learning and making

again

the line.

So

you recognize that.

So that is

something that you are learning.

It's a point that

giving you that you are learning.

So don't worry about those things.

And talking about these.

These are the four mostly important points.

They have another one that will help you

mostly if you work in paper.

And it's only a tip.

Because

in digital media it's

more easy to fix it.

But when you are working in paper, not this

we see.

But we can imagine we have this paper

here.

Okay? So when we are studying poses

and this is another "a must"

complete body poses.

This is not an exercise for you have only

the

bust.

Bust of a person that finish here

because no have sense

for the kind of exercise we are

studying or making.

So

complete body poses.

And what make this a bit difficult in paper?

Because

when we are starting to learn,

we usually start to draw in a

character a bit more better than

being in the paper. Like

the proportions we make,

not make the character

can be all in the paper.

So we can't like the head big and then

the shoulders and the torso and

stuff like that. And oh.

And drawing and I find that the legs

not entering the paper.

So we put the legs.

Or

maybe not too exaggerated.

But

always happen again to that

we are making the character drawing.

And we find that we make the legs. And,

and the feet not entering the paper. So

the person only could

not

put the

body parts please.

We need to

learn

how many space we have

for make our drawing.

So the tip I will give you is like

make guidelines.

Only this.

And you know you can't

make

your drawing more big than this. And

that make also you

know you start from the head.

You can start like your head here.

Right? And

make the torso.

Right?

And if we need a bit more space,

it's not a problem because we have

a bit more space.

So

these will be a really

helpful thing to have in consideration

especially for those that drawing in paper.

And they can't put ctrl+z

for fix the mistakes.

More easy. So don't worry.

Or the person that is using paper can't move

the layer so

it will be more easy to you guys

to have this

in consideration for make your drawing

in proportions. And without

putting part of the body.

We put this here.

Ok? So this is

the important points

about gesture

studies.

And I will start to give you some examples

for study gesture. So let's go.

So here we

start with some exercises

for make in home.

I will lend you in

all the class material, some exercises for

make in home too. So this will be short

example for how you need to work here.

So the first thing we need is timer.

We have already reach it here.

And we have the pose.

So we need to apply what we learn.

So don't worry. We need to start and

with the timer, you have your paper.

Your sketchbook, anything you have for

job. And need to focus in the pose.

We can watch the pose, look at it.

Find the important things.

The line of movement to show the line,

the hip line. And after we find those

things, we need to focus in the rest of the

body like that. Arms, the legs, stuff like

that. We have 1 minute.

So let's see what we can do

in 1 minute.

Ok, ready for start?

Let's go.

Ok, so

compared with the other sketch,

we have

a bit more time for analyze what is happening.

In the pose like these line,

these line,

the movement line.

So we can

focus not only in watch

the pose and

drawing.

We have 30 seconds more

to analyze what's happening

in the pose.

And try to

put them in sketch

and try to exaggerate them.

So it's a funny exercise.

You will get more used to it

because

really

with time and have it by

patience with this,

you will get

used to it. And will learn too many stuff.

A new stuff for how to practice and what to

see in the pose for make this exercise.

And how to optimize

what you are seeing because maybe you are

losing in the face of curve. But the face

of curve not will be in this exercise so you are

losing time is her face when you

will not drawing her face.

So it's important to focus here.

So I will meet you

to make

this exercise again.

With the timer.

And I will put like

1 minute,

30 seconds,

and 1 minute

for you.

You can stop the video here,

watch the images and make them

in your paper.

Ok?

Let's go.

And there it is.

So this all is

the really basic of gesture

and simplification.

This is the first part

of this course.

And the next incoming part is

how to clean the lines

that goes really close to these

like hand, with hand

because it's really important

clean your lines and make them

not a miss.

For make this kind of exercise,

I am not lost

time making your sketch.

So, so let's go for the next part.