46 Going Into That World!
In a few plainspoken words (plus some typically expressive gestures), Glen Keane told an interviewer on television recently that, “When my pencil touches the paper, whooosh! I go into that world, and if I’m in that world, you (the audience) will be in it too.”
In that brief statement, Glen voiced what our Gesture Class is all about, i. e., trying to enter the model’s intention for the pose (or to make one up of our own) and to relate that to the (potential) audience. Glen said it all there, but sometimes truths have to be elaborated upon to be fully accepted or made personal. That is why we have endless classes on acting, drawing, writing, pantomime, and a library full of books on these and related subjects. The big ...
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