Gesture Drawing Week 5: Exaggeration

The fifth week of  gesture drawing focuses on exaggeration. The soul of this segment is: communicative accuracy > anatomical accuracy.This is a slightly confusing lecture because the lecturer Alex indirectly advocates rotating the model to maximize the idea of the pose, while Louis (who gives the critiques) advises against this.

On the surface this lecture was straight forward. If the model is slouching, then make them REALLY slouch. If they are reaching for something, make the arm a little longer to add emphasis to what it's doing. The second level complexity is to put yourself in the model's mind. For instance, if the model looks sad, then you need to think about which gestures convey sadness. Maybe it's turning the face down, or maybe it's to slouch the shoulders forward dejectedly. Adding these little details can help communicate not only what your character is doing, but also what they're feeling. This sounds like a pretty useful to to me at least.

The homework for this lecture was:
1. One hours worth of drawing using exaggeration to convey the idea of the pose
2. Draw the gestures for the second video in the lecture
3. Pick any animal and draw it focusing on the anatomy.

Here is my submission to the homework. For the third part, I chose squirrels.