Figure Drawing: Mass Gesture Drawings -- Vine

At the beginning of each class we did a series of rapid gesture drawings.  These are designed to get the creative juices flowing while also training the eye and hand.  A mass gesture drawing attempts to capture the gesture of a figure through an exploration of its mass.  Often this takes the form of shadow and light.  The use of vine charcoal simplifies this while also retaining some linear quality.  All of these are vine charcoal on newsprint.

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