Wat gebeurt er als 30 seconden niet genoeg is?

Heroverweeg wat 'genoeg' betekent. Veel kunstenaars raken verstrikt in het idee dat ze in elk tijdsbestek van 30 seconden een 'schets' moeten maken, en dit wordt een onmogelijk doel als een 'schets' in jouw ogen eigenlijk een semi-volledige tekening in potlood is.

Ontspan; het gaat prima met je. Bijna niemand kan een "volledige" tekening in 30 seconden maken. Dat is eigenlijk het punt: door jezelf zo weinig tijd te geven, word je gedwongen om moordende beslissingen te nemen over prioriteiten, en je daaraan te houden. Het verlangt dat je voorkomt dat je wordt meegezogen in de "interessante" of "leuke" details die naar je toe springen als je naar een afbeelding kijkt, en dat je in plaats daarvan de richting en energie van de volledige figuur zo snel mogelijk in je opneemt en vastlegt.

Als alles wat je in je 30 seconden krijgt een enkele lijn is die de stroom van energie/het gewicht van de pose definieert, is dat een succes. Als je een paar "bubbels" naar beneden krijgt die bepalen waar de heupen en de romp zich ten opzichte van elkaar bevinden, is dat perfect. Je tekent gebaren zoals de meesters.

Haal diep adem voordat je begint met het tekenen van gebaren. Herinner jezelf eraan: je hoeft aan het eind van die 30 seconden niet iets te hebben dat voor iemand anders herkenbaar is. Je moet WEL proberen een duidelijke beslissing te nemen over wat je in die pose ALS GEHEEL ziet, en een of meer markeringen op je papier zetten die die beslissing vastleggen. Dit zijn geen tekeningen die je aan de muur gaat hangen, dit zijn oefeningen in perceptie die je doet om 'op te warmen' en jezelf in de juiste gemoedstoestand te brengen voordat je die langere houdingen probeert.

Er is geen vaker gemaakte fout voor nieuwe artiesten dan vast te lopen in de valkuil van 'details', onmiddellijk te springen naar wat 'leuk' of 'interessant' is of naar wat ze denken dat hen 'beter' zal maken in de ogen van anderen, in de schaduw te duiken of minuten of uren te besteden aan het nauwgezet weergeven van een bijzonder mooi stel ogen of handen, om er vervolgens achter te komen dat dat prachtige detail niet in verhouding staat met de rest van het lichaam, of in een bizarre hoek staat die de flow van de pose verstoort, of een honderd andere fouten die voortkomen uit het zien van de afzonderlijke delen in plaats van de stroom van het hele lichaam.

Er is een meer doorgewinterd oog voor nodig om het te kunnen weerstaan om in detail te werken en in plaats daarvan met veel meer algemeenheid te beginnen. Gebarentekenoefeningen kunnen u helpen daar te komen. In de klasmodus in onze tools zijn de serie houdingen van 30 seconden en 1 seconde die als warming-up dienen, ongeacht de duur van de les, bedoeld om je te helpen die langere houdingen met hetzelfde oog te benaderen om het geheel eerst te zien, om details in de context van een grotere lijn en stroom te plaatsen.

Mijn advies als u zich zorgen maakt dat uw tekeningen van 30 seconden nergens op lijken: maak u geen zorgen meer. Begin met het plaatsen van een enkele lijn die de richting van de wervelkolom vastlegt. Als je tijd hebt, kijk dan naar de plaatsing/hoek van de heupen, ribbenkast en hoofd. Als je meer tijd hebt, voeg dan wat lijnen toe voor armen en benen. Heb je geen tijd? Geen probleem. Je leert meer dan je beseft.

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meckeon
This is great advice. For a long time I've been worrying about not being able to have recognizable figure in 30 seconds. But now I realize its more about your perception of the figure and your decision making process than having something pretty.
Breeanna Seymour (unregistered visitor)
The 30 second poses are always super helpful to "loosen up" like you've stated. I find, to my sheer joy, that these short scribbles help me to complete the longer poses faster, which gives me time to get to all the fine details. I use to worry, thinking I was too slow, but have come to realized it's better to just do and let instinct take over. Thanks for the article!
Juan (unregistered visitor)
Thank you so much for the article :)
I just started my journey on gesture drawing (3 days ago), with the class mode. Of course I wasn't expecting results on this little time, but nevertheless I was getting frustrated with the 30 seconds poses.
I'll try to relax and just enjoy the journey. Let's see if there is some improvement after a couple of months!
Best wishes!
TomHuppe
wow, i wasnt thinking about it that way, thanks, that's a great advice
Estelle (unregistered visitor)
I asked this question at the end of a tutorial...I should have looked here first. I was concerned that I wasn't getting much down in the 30 seconds...it always ends with me trying to decide where the dots go, but I understand the pint of it better now. Thanks so much! What a great site!!
Kim - Site admin
It makes me so happy to read these responses and see that the site is helping people! :)
JER
Muchas gracias por el articulo estoy muy contento con el sitio, si es un poco difícil, pero disfruto el echo de hacer trazos libres y rápidos y lograr un boceto en corto tiempo.
Grégoire (unregistered visitor)
Thank you

I tend to linger 'cause I feel that the drawing is not completed it is missing something.

Thank you for your input
Jer Bot (unregistered visitor)
Noticing that gestures were available as an option, and the premade "class"es was interested me so much about this site. I discovered the power of gesture drawing years ago and it's been priceless to re-programming the way I approach the figure. The results i my lines flow better and it's easier to *feel* the post of the character. Great site and wonderful article. Thank you.
Sempervirens
Great advice, gave me a new perspective, one thing tho, What should i be capturing in this 30 seconds? the line that goes thru the center of the pose? or maybe the edge that defines the dominant side? thanks in advance!
Sanne - Site moderator
The 30 second gestures are supposed to capture the bare minimum lines to define the figure. That can look like this:

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Even though this doesn't really look like a person, I spent 30 seconds capturing the most obvious motion lines of the body; at a first glance, it's not too hard to recognize this is a person with an arched back holding up their arms in a dance gesture. Being able to capture a pose and motion in just a few lines is the main goal of 30 seconds.

A lot of the time, these 30 second gestures don't look like much and that's okay. They should warm you up and train your brain, not be totally detailed figures. :)
Sempervirens
They do look beautiful to me, gesture drawings have me hooked, i had never before been able to appreciate simplicity in drawing, and practicing gesture drawing really changed the way i look at things, thanks for the reply and advice, i am experiencing a problem tho, following this advice:
from Luis Escobar (another great online teacher) he mentioned to not approach gesture drawing with stick figures, he does the drawing in like 15 minutes tho and he is also a much more seasoned artist than me, the thing is when i follow his advice my "final artwork" ends up looking much better to my liking, i've been trying to fuse the method he presents with all the information i found on this site to get some speed into my process, i am not making any progress in this tho, the step to go from stick figures to a more meaty drawing pretty much kills all what i like about my drawings, i'm going to buy a camera and post some pictures for people to critique and i hope that will shed some light. Again, thanks for the reply and all this free resources you guys have! greetings from Mexico! :]
Divydelta
I didn't know about these videos! I just watched a few minutes and it already seems very helpful. I'll definitely watch more of Luis's stuff. Thank you!
Margaret (unregistered visitor)
I'm familiar with gesture drawing from years back. Still, it took a few days to get back into the "swing" of doing them. After that, I remembered why they're so important. Gesture drawing trains your eye to see the object all at once , and are really what set set up the conditions for more developed, good drawing.
Kratsbw5
I feel like this ended up being really helpful because I always feel as if I spend too much time on a sketch and end up going too much into detail that when I end up doing the actual piece it doesn't turn out as good as i had wished
Chronorust
These are the exact words I wish I heard years back. Getting back in the game and I'm already doing much better by not worrying. Thanks for the speech!
그레이스 (unregistered visitor)
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Gerry Capelle (unregistered visitor)
Thanks for the well spoken reminder.
Matilde Damele (unregistered visitor)
It's so true! Thank you for the useful advice
Roselys
Pourquoi on n'a pas de tutoriel pour faire les mains le visage , etc
Why we dont have tutorials to draw face , hands etc
Wjt7317058 (unregistered visitor)
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ViciousPony (unregistered visitor)
Great advice! i will take it into account, greetings from Argentina.
Sophbeanzee
Thank you for posting this, it was a maj boost of encouragement which I feel I always need and don't get all the time when I'm drawing or practicing. I'm always constantly bringing myself down and ik my diagnoses of mental health make it worse, but it comes horribly into play as a self-taught artists with only a couple of HS classes of that type of professional teaching.. The rest I've learned myself through reading a bunch of books by other artists and online teachers, and. youtube vids. I found this sight ]through a research period of how to draw gestures, and exercises for improvement on figure drawing and I've come back to this site over & over again and it's a wonderful reference. Loved reading this article!! Mindfulness in painting, drawing and art is always important!! ❤️❤️
Devil Darlinqq
I really needed this article! I've been trying to practice drawing realistic heads, and I couldn't get any details like the eyes, nose, mouth etc. down. I thought that it was way too quick, but now I understand that that is the point. For the first time today, I finish the 30 min class mode, and It was the first time in a while that I had fun while drawing. It was so nice and refreshing, and it really was fun! This site has helped me so much recently, even if I just got started, I feel myself improving so much! Thank you for this article, and thank you for creating such a great community! I hope to have many more practice sessions using this site!

-Devi
MC (unregistered visitor)
Thanks for the helpful advice! I have been skipping the 30 second poses thinking I am just a slow drawer and that is okay. This article reminded me of the purpose and importance of the 30 second pose.
Agnesee
I've always struggled to understand what the point of 30 sec poses was. I watched a lot of videos but only this post cleared everything up for me!
Lena (unregistered visitor)
Thank you for this encouraging reminder!
Gregoire (unregistered visitor)
Yep
I trying to just to that.
Thanks
Steven9331
I joined the site recently and am working to improve my drawing skills. I find this approach very healthy, organic, mindful and realistic about how to improve the perception of the art creator. I enjoy this web site very much and have been very dedicated to my practice and building up art muscles through on line courses geared toward manga, perspective, and fundamentals. There are many resources and I am integrating these in a gradual manner strengthen my skills. My goal is to produce a manga book with my character and original stories. It has been about a month and a half and I'd say that although I have art knowledge my skills are practically non existent. My point is that I am seeing small measurable victories as I go on this journey to create my manga book. Still very early in the process the character is in beginning stages of development. I would never have thought that I could get this far about 2 months ago, however, with my drive, persistence, and all the available resources and my progress to date - I know that I will do this project, do it well and feel good about it! I want to say thank you for having the site, Line of Action with all of these great resources, ways to inspire artists like me (daily tracking journal, the gesture drawing practice and commitment to draw regularly, the resource of poses and book selections that are valuable references. So Thank You! I will continue to appreciate the site and recommend to those who have an art / drawing interest.
Martini (unregistered visitor)
Awesome possum! In deed as a begginer this is so truuue.

Thks a million
Thomas (unregistered visitor)
Very convincing. Good explanation!
My personal challenge is, to follows this recommendation in my sketching Work without getting in the fun/Details Trap.
Thanks a lot for the advice.
Vangelis
Speaking for my self, it's fear that holds me back mostly! I'm on a course to send him away if possible.
Debbifrost
I wish I knew this when I did a life drawing class. The teacher started with 2 minute then 5, etc, but never taught us gesture drawing!! The instruction was to draw as much as possible in the time.
Ben (unregistered visitor)
I had trouble with the first few in 30 secs because I tried to draw outlines, there is not enough time. It works if you draw them like an artists mannequin. The first thing I do is put a circle for the head, then the rough torso shape. Ellipses for limbs, circles for kneecaps, deltoids and elbows. Finally feet, rough size and direction.

If I have a few seconds left at the end I will indicate eye and nose position. I am happy if I can recognise which of the photos it was when I review the next day. The ones the give me most difficulty are pictures with sheets, or partly removed clothing. They can be hard to read.

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