Gesture Drawing is a fantastic exercise for visualizing the dynamic and aesthetic aspects of the human body and infuse your drawings of the figure, with life and movement. It is also a very fun way to put to work the material learned in anatomy courses and practice drawing with different techniques.
Materials
Charcoal sticks and charcoal pencils. Pastel sticks and pastel pencils in red earth, brown, white and possibly dark gray or blue.
You can also bring colored pencils any graphite pencils.
Erasers, sharpeners, and of course, staring paper such as strathmore Drawing series 400.
Previously, on "Open Drawing Sessions"...
In this page, you can find a list of past Open Drawing Sessions for sale.
This page will be updated weekly with the recording of the latest Session offered, giving you the possibility to purchase classes you might have missed.
Roberto Osti teaches figure drawing and human anatomy for artists at the New York Academy of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Formally trained as a medical illustrator before becoming a fine artist, Osti has contributed his work to many science and art publications. His paintings have been exhibited in galleries in Europe and the United States. He is the author of Basic Human Anatomy (2016), an art instruction best seller and classic reference book. His latest book , Dynamic Human Anatomy has been released in March 2021.