Gesture Drawing
Capture the dynamic human form in our online gesture drawing workshop
Analyze and simplify the human figure to its most essential elements
This beginner's gesture drawing workshop will help you explore the human form. Without focusing too much on technical anatomy, you'll learn how to make logical assumptions about how the human body works to draw clear, streamlined, and appealing gestures.
Why study gesture drawing at CG Spectrum:
- Lessons are crafted by an industry expert
- Flexible online format
- Learn techniques used by professional artists
- Gain 30 days access to an online community channel on Slack where you can network, troubleshoot, and collaborate with your workshop mentor and peers!
Our workshops fill up fast—register now to secure your place!
What you'll learn
This workshop consists of 10+ hours of self-guided study content and two live, one-hour mentor-led sessions. Starting with flow and the lines of action, learn how to make poses feel dynamic but grounded. Explore graphic shapes using silhouettes and negative space and discover centrelines, proportion, and direction along with compression and extension.
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Develop an understanding of what gesture drawings are and how to create them
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Learn how to use basic shapes to represent forms
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Understand how to work with the flow of action even in a still pose
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Learn how to combine separate parts of anatomy into a single strong pose
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Understand how to simplify drawings without losing the important elements needed to convey and communicate
Highly recommend this school!
My teachers were very helpful and I have learned so much about the industry. The highlight I think is the community they nurture—I have great relationships with other students, alumni, and mentors from my time at CG Spectrum.
Experienced, successful and friendly mentors.
CG Spectrum has pushed me closer to my dream of being a concept artist. The mentors are amazing, which really is their unique selling point! Very glad to have taken both the illustration and concept art course, and the advanced concept art course.
Utterly brilliant!
If you really want to learn how to properly make concept art and illustration or just improve your art, then this is one of the best courses that you could do. The amount that you learn from the tutor and the assignments is huge - it would take many years of self-led practice to learn what is taught here. Fantastic experience!
Studying concept art and illustration through CG Spectrum has been wonderful!
From helping me in achieving a better workflow to improving on designing things out of my comfort zone, the course has given me more confidence as an artist. You can tell the mentors really put a lot of thought and care into helping you create your best work, as well as preparing you for success in the industry.
My experience at CG Spectrum was second to none, and taught me so much more than I initially anticipated.
My mentor took me from being barely computer literate to an animator working at a studio in only a year and a half. The information and level of teaching at CG Spectrum will absolutely not be found anywhere else.
They give you the right tools for the right job.
I enrolled in the Concept Art and Illustration course without any art background (theoretical and practical). Thanks to my enthusiastic mentors, Eric Wilkerson and Brian Huang, and knowledgeable fellas in group chat, I was able to improve my skills in a short time.
It's one of the best discoveries of my life.
Never been so happy to study before. I've learnt so much in such a short time, and not only with the awesome mentors here, but thanks to this big community too! Thanks, CG Spectrum!
It's been extremely helpful for my portfolio and my confidence as an artist!
I've learned so much about not only animation, but the thought process an artist goes through when creating a piece.
The most important quality of CG Spectrum is that they concentrate on training their students in a specific discipline.
They know that the industry is full of experienced and trained people, and their goal is to find jobs for their student and not just pump out useless degrees. Instead of having a small understanding of the whole production pipeline, students have a competent and full understanding of specific parts of the pipeline. I honestly believe that these guys have built this institution to get people jobs and help grow the industry into something even more amazing than it is now. Big props to CG Spectrum.
I've never improved as an artist so quickly.
Great course. They teach you what you need to know and don't waste your time with stuff that just fills out a course. It was specific to what I needed to know. The classes are very personable and the mentors are industry professionals that never hesitate to put in the effort to help you out. I definitely would recommend this to people interested in getting into the industry. It's set up so that industry professionals (who are still working in the industry) are teaching you. They are at the top of their game. You get the connections as well as the skill and insight into the industry. These guys tick all the boxes in my opinion.
