Famous Gesture Drawing Artists - Gesture in context.

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Famous Gesture Drawers Collected for my students. Honoria Starbuck, Ph.D. Dancer by Auguste Rodin

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Famous Gesture Drawers

Collected for my students.

Honoria Starbuck, Ph.D.

Dancer by Auguste Rodin

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Ryan Woodward, Animatior

Conte

In his book Conte, animator Ryan Woodward illustrates his path toward seeing, then drawing the main forms, rhythms, relationships, and action of the model.

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Ryan Woodward, Animatior

Conte

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Ryan Woodward, Animatior

Conte

Using Values Plus Lines is an efficient way to create shape, volume and direction.

In Gesture drawing lines can go outside the edges of the figure.

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What is this drawing?

Not once in describing the shape of that mass did I shift my eyes from the model. Why? Because I wanted to be sure that nothing evaded my grasp of it. Not a thought about the technical problem of representing it on paper could be allowed to arrest the flow of my feelings about it, from my eye to my hand. The moment I drop my eyes that flow stops.

– Auguste Rodin

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Auguste Rodin

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Auguste Rodin

Earlier work by Rodin

DE PROFUNDIS CLAMAVI1887-1888Pen and brown ink, brown ink wash, on a page from a copy of the original edition of Flowers of Evil

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DRAWINGS in the creative process.

Rodin was a prolific draughtsman, producing some 10,000 drawings, over 7,000 of which are now in the Musée Rodin, Paris.

His drawings were seldom used as studies or projects for a sculpture or monument. The draughtsman’s oeuvre developed in tandem with the sculptor’s. Although the works on paper can only be shown periodically, owing to their fragility, the role they played in Rodin’s art was by no means minor.

As the sculptor himself said at the end of his life, “It’s very simple. My drawings are the key to my work,” (Benjamin, 1910).

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THE THINKER1903BronzeAuguste Rodin (1840 -1917)

Why did Rodin do gesture drawings if his final works look like this?

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https://youtu.be/JU9oaD0e7uUPicasso morphs one drawing into another.What fun. Let’s try it.

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Picasso’s storyboard of a bullfight

• Picasso produced a series of etchings dedicated to bullfighting in 1957.

• 27 prints to illustrate the book La Tauromaquia o arte de Torear (Tauromachy or the Art of Bullfighting) by José Delgado, known as Pepe Illo.

• The Museu Picasso in Barcelona houses the prints.

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Quiz

1. Why did Rodin the sculptor create thousands of gesture drawings from the model?

2. Describe 3 types of lines used by Ryan Woodward.

3. Why didn’t Picasso stop drawing when he make the fish character?

4. Draw yourself in the style of one of these artists.

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Works Cited

Picasso, Pablo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU9oaD0e7uU

http://www.bcn.cat/museupicasso/en/collection/highlights.html

Rodin, Auguste

http://www.musee-rodin.fr/en/collections/drawings

Woodward, Ryan

http://ryanwoodwardart.com/my-works/conte-animated/

http://ryanwoodwardart.com/studiowork/storyboards-and-animatics/