Drawn to Life - Volume 2

24 Plight of a Gesture

Hello. I’m a Gesture. It is my purpose in life to get drawn in a way that brings out not only the basic “ story point, ” but also the subtle nuances of the pose. All my acting ability goes into my poses.

It is relatively easy. First I think of what I want to do, then almost like magic my body just moves into the pose. All the parts of my body know instinctively what to do. It is, of course, a contrived pose, that is, I am not really doing it — I’m just “play-acting.” Nevertheless, I sum up all the necessary forces to pull it off.

I realize that when an artist is drawing me, the pen or pencil does not automatically or involuntarily assume the gesture like my body does. The artist has to figure out how my body accomplished ...