Que se passe-t-il si 30 secondes ne suffisent pas ?

Reconsidérez ce que signifie « assez ». De nombreux artistes se laissent emporter par l'idée selon laquelle ils doivent produire un « croquis » toutes les 30 secondes, et cela devient un objectif impossible si, dans votre esprit, un « croquis » est en réalité une image semi-complète au crayon.

Détendez-vous ; tu vas très bien. Presque personne ne peut réellement réaliser un dessin « complet » en 30 secondes. C'est en fait le point : en vous accordant un laps de temps si court, vous êtes obligé de prendre des décisions acharnées concernant les priorités et de vous y tenir. Il exige que vous vous évitiez de vous laisser entraîner dans les détails « intéressants » ou « amusants » qui vous sautent aux yeux lorsque vous regardez une image, et qu'à la place, vous absorbiez et capturiez la direction et l'énergie de la silhouette complète le plus rapidement possible.

Si tout ce que vous obtenez en 30 secondes est une seule ligne qui définit le flux d'énergie/le poids de la pose, c'est un succès. Si vous obtenez quelques « bulles » qui définissent l’emplacement des hanches et du torse les uns par rapport aux autres, c’est parfait. Vous faites du dessin gestuel comme les maîtres.

Avant de commencer votre pratique du dessin gestuel, respirez profondément. Rappelez-vous : vous n’avez pas besoin d’avoir quelque chose qui soit reconnaissable par une autre personne à la fin de ces 30 secondes. Vous devez essayer de prendre une décision claire sur ce que vous voyez dans cette pose DANS L'ENSEMBLE, et faire une ou plusieurs marques sur votre papier pour enregistrer cette décision. Ce ne sont pas des dessins que vous allez afficher au mur, ce sont des exercices de perception que vous faites pour vous "échauffer" et vous mettre dans le bon état d'esprit avant de tenter ces poses plus longues.

Il n'y a pas d'erreur plus courante pour les nouveaux artistes que de rester coincés dans le piège des "détails", de sauter immédiatement vers ce qui est "amusant" ou "intéressant" ou vers ce qui, selon eux, les rendra "meilleurs" aux yeux des autres, de plonger dans les ombres ou de passer des minutes ou des heures à rendre minutieusement une paire d'yeux ou de mains particulièrement jolies pour découvrir quand ils ont terminé que ce beau détail est disproportionné avec le reste du corps, ou sous un angle bizarre qui perturbe le flux de l'image. la pose, ou une centaine d'autres erreurs qui proviennent du fait de voir les parties individuelles au lieu du flux du corps tout entier.

Il faut un œil plus expérimenté pour pouvoir résister à travailler dans les détails et commencer par beaucoup plus de généralité. La pratique du dessin gestuel peut vous aider à y parvenir. En mode cours dans nos outils, les séries de poses de 30 secondes et d'1 seconde qui servent d'échauffement, quelle que soit la durée du cours que vous choisissez, sont là pour vous aider à aborder ces poses plus longues avec le même œil pour voir l'ensemble en premier, pour placer les détails dans le contexte d'une ligne et d'un flux plus larges.

Mon conseil si vous craignez que vos dessins de 30 secondes ne ressemblent à rien : arrêtez de vous inquiéter. Commencez à tracer une seule ligne qui capture la direction de la colonne vertébrale. Si vous avez le temps, faites des bulles dans le placement/angle des hanches, de la cage thoracique et de la tête. Si vous avez plus de temps, ajoutez quelques lignes pour les bras et les jambes. Vous n'avez pas le temps ? Aucun problème. Vous en apprenez plus que vous ne le pensez.

Action! Cartooning

by Ben Caldwell

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Commentaires

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 - Administrateur du site
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 - Modérateur du site
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)
拨云见日,豁然开朗
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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