The second free gesture set: a compact, drill-sized pack for daily warm-ups. Load it into the drawing timer, pick an interval, and spend twenty minutes finding the line of action before the rest of your work begins.
Gesture drawing is a habit more than a skill, and habits fail on friction. Part two of this free gesture series is deliberately compact — small enough to work through in a sitting, structured for the drill rather than for browsing. What's in this pack
Gesture-suitable poses: figures with a clear driving movement, a readable line of action and enough asymmetry to be worth drawing quickly. If you worked through the first free gesture set, this continues it with fresh material so your warm-ups do not become memory exercises. If you did not, it stands perfectly well on its own.
The scale here is intentional. A drill pack should be finishable. There is real value in getting to the end of a set, knowing you have drawn all of it, and coming back tomorrow to do it faster. The drill
Gesture drawing has a method, and most people who say it does not work for them are skipping it.
1. Thirty seconds. One line. Find the movement running through the figure from head to the weight-bearing foot and draw only that. No contour, no head, no hands. 2. One minute. The line of action plus two masses — ribcage and pelvis — with their opposing tilts. Still no detail. 3. Two minutes. Add limbs as tapering forms and mark the joints. The pose should now be recognisable from across the room. 4. Five minutes. Construction: solid forms, correct proportions, contour that describes the turn of a surface.
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