154 • GESTURE AND POSE WITH IDA HEM PART 1 : AN ART BOOK ART-ICKLE

What is Gesture? Let’s find out, as we look at an Art-ickle called ‘Gesture and Pose with Ida Hem‘, from the Art Book ‘Creating Stylized Characters by 3dtotal Publishing‘.

This is part one of two, and focuses on: What is Gesture? Squash and Stretch, and Building up from a Gesture. Next week we’ll be looking at the rest of this ickle article, and cover Capturing Gestures, and Exploring Personality & Gesture.

Topics include:

• What Do You Think Gesture Is?,
• The Line of Action,
• Ida Hem’s Retro Cartoon Art,
• How We Don’t Like Stiffys,
• How Gesture helps to Create Powerful Silhouettes,
• How Shapes Tell Stories,
• Bert Dodson and Trigger Words,
• Becoming the Character by Physically Posing,
• How Squashing and Stretching is like Pinching and Pulling,
• Comparing Good and Bad Poses,
• The process of Building Up From a Gesture,
• lil Art Tip of Visualising String being Attached to your Characters,
• Exaggeration is key for Dynamic Poses,
• Facing Your Art Fears,
• Body Language,
• Shifting Characters Weight via Contrapposto (Counterpoise),
• What Are T-Poses?
• And there’s a click review of the book ‘The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho‘.

I learnt a lot studying from this article, hope you do too :)

LINKS
• Ida Hem Website
• @IdaSomethingHem – Ida Hem on Instagram
• Burning My 20,000 Gesture Drawings
• Proko Figure Drawing Course
• QuickPoses Gesture Drawing Resource
• Click Look Video of the art book ‘Creating Stylized Characters by 3dtotal Publishing’