tilting

SO! still studying michael hamptons book and drawing my bro whenever i can. i thought i'd share a "neat" little thing i do that helps me figure out the gesture of a figure. it's a kinesthetic thing.

the body is a balancing act, and that's one of the things i try to represent in my gestures. depending on the lines i use, it represents a certain "tilt" of the mass... when i'm drawing a figure, i actually use my hands to figure out what this tilt is. i pretend im holding the line that represents the mass of the figure, and tilting it to figure out its direction.

just a little something that helps me anyway