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Gesture drawing is a powerful warm-up that helps artists capture movement, proportion, and energy before focusing on details. Short, timed poses encourage whole-picture thinking and fluid mark-making.

One of an artist's greatest tools to communicate life in a drawing is gesture. It's the movement from one form to another. That's why it follows the natural flow of human anatomy. The first place to ...