Line Quality

Concepts: 

Push /Pull

Weight - Light / Heavy 

Weight - Thick / Thin

Uniform / Broken

Pure / Lost and Found 

Edward Hopper (Texture)

Edward Hopper (Pure)

Kathe Kollwitz (mood)

Brice Marden (Broken/ lost and found)

Van Gogh

SPRING 2015 Gesture Drawing

Eugene Delacroix

Lion Devouring a Hare (1851), red chalk

Dancer, 1808 - 1878, crayon over charcoal on laid paper

The Prodigal Son, 1808-1879, pen and black ink with wash on laid paper

Two men, Daumier, 1808 - 1879

Three Dancers, Degas

Gesture Drawing examples, from "The Natural Way to Draw", Kimon Nikolaides 

Giacometti, TÊTE D'HOMME, 1960 black ballpoint on paper 

Richard Serra on Drawing

Richard Serra on Drawing

info on these drawings to come soon :

tacita dean

Rene Magritte 

David Hockney

Jean Cocteau

Piero Della Francesca

Rembrant , woman carrying child downstairs, reed pen with brown wash

 Vincent Van Gogh

Wild Vegetation, Vincent Van Gogh

 Vincent Van Gogh

Pieter Breugel the Elder

 5 second gesture drawing , get the entire unit down to describe an the pose

Gesture drawing of an animal, lines are fluid and constant 

apx 15 - 30 sec gesture drawing

Master, Honore Daumier, Study of female dancers, Gesture Drawing 1808 - 1879

Notice the curves in the line and how the figure and pose is described well in this sketch 

Gesture drawing, overlapping method

Gesture drawing of objects, notice the line enters the form, are expressive

Camera Lucida

David Hockney on the Camera Lucida

Inventing

Live Model Drawing