GESTURE DRAWING e-book

This is my book of sketches made in the life-drawing room at Pixar over 4 years. I studied the approach to Gesture Drawing where the pose is used as a springboard for the imagination. Story and character are the focus rather than anatomy.

Available as a digital e-book on Gumroad here


Practice is, of course, paramount to success; I would attend drawing classes twice a week at Pixar. When I worked in France with no regular art classes I still practised gesture drawing every day sitting outside cafes and drawing the people in the street. I have a book collection of these too available here

2013 Gesture Drawing Class

I've  realized I haven't posted any sketches from Gesture Class since last year when I put out a book collecting my first 2 years of class sketches.  This year I've filmed some of the other artists gesture sketching and posted them to Vine.

Terry Song

Domee Shi

Stanley Moore

Here's a selection of some of my own efforts

Gesture Drawing News

Alex Woo and Louis Gonzales were recently in Toronto to lead a Schoolism Gesture Class. They are also putting together an exciting book project on their approach to Gesture Drawing. Here are some of my latest sketches from our regular sessions.

30 sec-1 min. warm ups

Pushing the pose & extrapolating character

Inspired by John Carter of Mars

 We usually don't require models in costume but this lady had a great belly-dancer outfit.

Quick sketch

Latest from Gesture Class. Rapid warm ups- 15 second poses!

 30 seconds seemed leisurely by comparison!

 . . . and some fun stuff with 1 minute poses

Line of Action

In Gesture Class I've been advocating capturing the line of action/basic shape in a broad colour stroke then working in on top of that with a finer pen.  It seems to generate more spontaneous interpretations of a pose.

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