Drawn to Life - Volume 2

20 Pantomime (Drawing) Preparation

Each week I try to reproduce some student’s sketches with my suggestion drawings beside them, with a commentary on what goes through my mind to come up with a “storytelling” gesture. When those thoughts are written down, it seems like it must cover quite a span of time. While I am sketching and talking it takes but 10 or 15 seconds, but when just sketching, it usually takes but a split second to ferret out the manner in which the constituent parts tell the story. In doing this I am not suggesting that you have to think like me to make a good gesture drawing. Individuality is one of our chief contributions to creativity, so you will develop your own line of investigation. That will make all of our drawings different, ...