From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters
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Gesture and attitude drawings
From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters
Gesture and attitude drawings
- Gesture drawings are sketches that are done very quickly with the primary aim of conveying the emotional or the intellectual activity of the character; are they happy, sad angry. And then below that with the action what are they doing? So here we have an example of some gesture drawings. And as you can see they're very scratchy, done very quickly. I didn't dwell on any of the inner details. You're not going to see any hair on these characters or anything that isn't your mean to getting inside their head. And some of them, more successful than others. I mean you can say this one's ok, it conveys anger. But this one much better, look at this guy down here. That's a really strong pose, it like we took this one here and just went way further with it. So the whole point of doing these quick gesture drawings is that you get this big library of poses that you can then draw on. So if I give you a scene to animate, that involves the character frustrated or overjoyed with happiness. You can…
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