Gesture Drawing Questions Answered (plus Giveaway) 

Hi everyone!! I hope you enjoy the video - let me know if you have any questions you want me to address in a video! Leave a comment below. And WOW!! 20K, guys! I love the the community that has grown around this channel - every week I get incredible, kind, inspiring comments and it is so amazing to me to know that like-minded figure artists like you can use this content to develop your work and share your perspective with me! Thank you so much for supporting this channel ❤

Just wanted to say thank you for tips for gesture. I was always focused on proportions and anatomy and it felt like the energy of the pose was gone. Somehow it started to click more and more by watching your videos. The process of drawing gesture is a lot more enjoyable and the goal is more clear vs before drawing blindly with no understanding. Thank you again!

Delighted for you with the 20000 milestone. And I love the input about drawing with the "wrong" hand. I do it myself sometime too. I find that when I use my left hand/right brain, the hand draws what they eyes see and the the logic that the left hand wants to add to the process is silenced/overwritten... So often I use the left hand as the draftman in a drawing/painiting.

Congrats on 20k! I'm glad RU-vid recommended your videos to me. I've been working on finding a more relaxed way to get ideas down on paper and your thoughts on how to do just that are giving me much to think about. I'm still struggling with letting go but it is getting easier to see the page and placement of objects within it working from scribbles into finer and finer detail. It's a fun journey.

Congratulations on your milestone! Thank you for your fantastic videos, I love your style.

Yes, I would love to win your drawing. I have watched you for over a year and have learned so much; with so much more to learn. Please continue to produce your videos,

Lovely to see how happy you are with the channel’s success. Very well deserved. Thanks for all the helpful videos!

Congrats. I very much enjoy learning and watching your energy while drawing.

I love your loose and easy way with sketching! I can only hope to be as skilled one day. I'll keep my fingers crossed for the drawing, having a signed piece of my very own would be the coolest~ Also, would love to see a nice, messy sketchbook tour from you one day, if you keep one. All the best to you and yours!

20K !! you surely deserve that and more. If most subscribers to your channel feel like me, i would say that you not only transfer artistic knowledge in a superb way, you also build our confidence, enhance our love for art and make us happier human beings. Which this planet needs more then ever. Thanks

Love your content. This channel should have 20 million subscribers. I feel like yours is such a naturally liberating approach, and following your example has really helped me free up my arm and line-confidence. Just wondering: did you do all those exercises the way Nicolaides lays them out, or did you take the technique and just run with it the way you wanted? Can one really do contour drawing at the speeds he prescribes? I can't seem to. What a beautiful and frustrating book. Siobhan is my favorite name in the world, btw. Hoping my first-born is a girl, because that's what she's getting! Keep up the amazing work.

A big milestone is 20K 👏🏻 how amazing it would be to win such a brilliant figurative art work of yours ❤🤞🏻

Thanks for sharing all this on your channel. It helped me a lot to making progress in my own drawings. Congrats to 20K! It’s definitely deserved.

🎉 congrats on 20k. This is one of my favorite channels I've watched your skill share class multiple times.

Hi Siobhan ... WOW! 20K 😃 What a beautiful achievement. Congratulations! Your videos are becoming dense of knowledge more and more. I also noticed, like another subscriber did, that you acquired more confidence in the last few months. 😊 Beautiful drawing and technique, like always after all. Keep up the great work. Roberta ❤

🥳👏👌Congratulations! I love your videos. Thanks for teaching us😁💝💐

I found your channel a few months ago when i started to learn to draw. Its been a great help as I struggle to make coherent shapes! Thank-you.

Hi, congrats on those 20K subscribers. Keep pushing, I enjoy all the videos.

So glad I found your channel! Your gesture drawing amazes me.

Love your instructional videos and your work! Thank you for the inspiration and encouragement.

Great work as always. Adding the interaction with the audience is definitely a plus. Congrats with your approach.. greets from Antwerp.

congrats on reaching 20k subs. that aside, I really enjoy the content on the channel because I am interested in drawing from life and that is one reason I like this channel. Thank you for sharing your advice :)

I'm glad your channel is doing well 🎉 good luck for the future.

Have you studied anatomy for artists? And are old master drawings an inspiration for you?

Thank you for posting these videos! I learn so much watching them

Thanks a lot Siobhan. I have a life figure drawing session coming up next weekend & this video was definitely what I needed. Also congratulations & thanks a ton for inspiring me to do figure drawing. Cheers. 😊❤🎉🍀🎨

Congratulations on 20k! I love to watch your drawing process.

Again, congratulations! You're vids are my go to inspiration for gesture and figure drawing. 💙

Congratulations! It’s funny that this video came out just when I needed more answers for gesture drawing

Congratulations on 20k! Your videos are so helpful 💜

Big congrats on 20k!! Your videos have been so helpful to me. One of my biggest struggles is still getting the proportions right. I struggle with measuring the models correctly, especially if they are in a more complex pose. Thanks again 🙏🏼.-Cathy

Huge congrats on the 20k milestone Sobian. Glad to have found this little community when I pickedup your digital art courses in Udemy back in 2019. Extremley much deserved as well. I always love your easy to approach teaching styles as well with your style of drawing.

You're doing something right. Thanks for helping 20,000 struggling artists!

hey Siobhan I love that particular pose and had drawn it several times in the past.. of course yours is far better than mine :) Thanks for your work 🔥🔥🔥

Your videos are very encouraging with great tips for loosening up in figure drawing.

Great drawing, Siobhan. Those are tricky legs! I also switch to my non- dominant hand from time to time. It yields some interesting outcomes and very different mark making. Thanks for the video.

Congratulations on your milestone

LOVE your work!

Hello Siobhan, Congratulations to the 20K! Love from Nina in Finland

I am choosing the frame in my mind already 😅you were such a great help always and you deserve 200k 😊

Hi Siobhan, Thank you so much for making this video as well as all your very educational and inspiring videos. I have learned so much from them! So happy for your success, you deserve it! Thanks again!

Hi Siobhan, I have a question, when I draw my figures I like to ground them, whether that is through the use of lightly sketching in the furniture the model is sitting on, or using heavy shadow lines under or to the side of the figure, however no matter how hard I try my figures always still look like they are floating in mid air. I was wondering if there is a solution to avoid my figures appearing to float? Thankyou. Also I would love to win that awesome drawing, fingers crossed, good luck to everyone :) .

Love your style and info. Found you on Skillshare and loves your classes there.

I'll enter :-) I love your artistic style a lot and your videos have really helped me explore that area of stylized and intuition based art, outside from the more mathematical areas of drawing. Thank you!

I am really enjoying your channel. I have been wanting to get back to figurative drawing and painting for long time, and your videos have been the kick in the backside I needed. But being separated from working on the figure and life drawing for so long, I am finding I am finding some difficulty with keeping proportions and not overworking the facial features (especially with smaller sketchbook drawings).

I think she's looking my way..........Thoughts from Ireland.

Love your channel - I’m learning soooo much - thank you!

Hi Siobhan, delighted to be here for your fantastic achievement. I don't usually comment but to have a gesture drawing from you would be fantastic. I'm still trying each day and hopefully one day I can come close to your outstanding work. Cheers and have a wonderful time picking the winner. Good luck to all. God bless

I just wanted to thank you for all your lovely videos.

Hi, what a beautiful opportunity to have your drawing. I hope to win. 😍💕

Congratulations! Well deserved! Your videos are great, well thought, well presented and full of pertinent information. I have another question, or should I say remark. I find my "blind scribble figure studies" way more interesting than when I do the same study while looking at the model and my paper at the same time. Which technique is the best, according to you, to improve ones drawing very quickly? How about blind contour drawing studies ? I find those extremenly difficult to do ? Is it better to do contours blindly or looking at your paper and model? Last but not least, do you reach plateaus where you think you are not advancing or even think that your drawings are getting worse? Also the drawing you are giving away is very nice, very soft and elegant lines. Great!

Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉😊

You are doing great Siobhan! 🙂

Thank you!

Will figure drawing be a great starting point for learning to draw?. I have been learning how to draw for a while now, but my drawing path has been a bit disorganized because I am not sure how to apportion the proper time for each of the fundamentals. This ends with me slacking off or feeling demotivated. I am quite interested in the course you have on Udemy, to see if it will be a great starting for me or at least give me direction.

Awesome and congratulations to the lucky winner who gets to hang her on their wall 🏆

Hi! Thanks!

First of all congratulations for your 20K subscribers..In this ocean (of subscribers), I am also a drop.. What I feel about gesture drawing, which was rightly explained by you, instead gestures, I tended to draw figures at very initial level, I think there are two ways to solve this issue.first, create gestures without leaving the pencil on the paper..second, only point out lines, somewhat arrow types to indicate actions..I don't support charcoal drawing for practice..i experienced that charcoal was a great cheating medium..it looks artistic, a self-delusional feeling of achievement..the best is of course, a fountain pen but it is too difficult.. I like the advice about drawing with non-functional hand..let me try and fail.. I dont know whether it is okay to say or not, I have watched lots of youtube channels, some are really useful, many of them just try to confuse students, and a few of them are absolutely dangerous in terms of understanding drawing..You are really very sincere, honest and your overall appearance is very pleasing...you are very underrated also. I have watched many videos of yours, I like the way you handle pencil, some subtle tips and I think personally you are a very nice human being..

Wow, Jessie has such super eyes:)

When attending life drawing sessions and getting the most out of these sessions should I practice speading up my process at home? I’d like to be considered in my mark making but feel panicked when attending sessions. Glen Vilppu , who I also follow on RU-vid stresses he isn’t drawing fast. I’m amazed how quickly some people can draw and yet other equally accomplished are slow. Is a life drawing session with timed poses purely an exercise or do “professional” artists intend to produce finished pieces? I’m not sure my expectations are realistic.

先生の線は無駄なく見事なのですが、合間にいれていく陰影が素晴らしいです。 木炭、ペンシルを立てたり、寝かしたり動きも様々ですが、 陰影の描き方に何か原則のようなものはありますか？

hove your drawing！

Hi Siobhan, it's been a long time since we've chatted on Instagram. I haven't been drawing for a few months now and as usual your videos encourage me. I hope all continues to go well for you.