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Gesture Drawing with Mark McDonnell

Mark McDonnell teaches life drawing at Disney and Dreamworks. He’s posted a small series of videos on his blog to help share some of his tips and lessons. See them at his YouTube channel.

  • http://www.nextdayflyers.com/ Offset Printing Services

    These are some helpful videos. I think I'll be able to learn quite a bit from Mark. Thanks.

  • camilografico

    excelent!!!!!

  • richard fox

    i thought the model reacting like a pavlovian dog
    to his cell phone was hilarious, and very
    unprofessional.

  • http://www.askaforensicartist.com/ Forensic Artist

    I think that was the pose timer, not his cellphone :)

  • danjodon

    Wow, great tutorial. His gesture drawings were sick.

  • BoogieFingas

    Thank you for this link, excellent tutorial, happy to hear its one of many more too :D. Makes me want to sketch all day, best feeling in the world.

  • http://www.facebook.com/aj.reinhart Aj Reinhart

    Very cool warm-up tut from drawn.ca!

  • ajreino

    Very cool warm-up tut from drawn.ca!

  • Roz

    What a fantastic model – no posing prompting! He just gets on with it and gets into wonderful poses – I WANT ONE!

  • http://comingupforair.net/ Matt

    Was that a cellphone or some sort of pose-timer?

  • Keith Isola

    sorry I completely disagree and I feel this is the reason why comics and animation have lost favor over the past 10 years; there needs to be respect for the science of the elements. An object looks like what it is; respect the object/subject in your warm up also; stylize in your portfolio; your take “style” is subjective and an excuse to hire and not hire who we like; but the physics of the fold; the discipline of the ink render or texture map or pencil or acrylic render is always necessary to explore.

  • http://twitter.com/JimJanek Jim Janek

    not sure what you mean, could you please be a little less vague? “the science of the elements?” sounds self-referential.

  • markmcdonnell

    Thanks you for the kind comments and for my favorite website for posting a blurb so everyone can have access to the videos.

    Richard,
    The ringing is actually the timer as these were short poses.

    BoogieFingas,
    That's the nicest comment I have gotten yet. Thanks and I'll met you out there doodling the day away.

    Keith,
    I think I understand what you are saying and . . . I agree. I think you do have to take it seriously and study folds and such realistically as well as rendering the light realistically. Then after those years of study you can continue the path and work on lighting and such or try something new and explore in various mediums and such. I chose to do the latter after many years of study and apply my thinking process to the medium I work in, Animation and Entertainment. So, I agree with you and I made a distinct choice to grow and adapt to my craft.

    Best,

    MAC

  • Keith Isola

    ??”An object looks like what it is; respect the object/subject in your warm up also; physics of the fold” [or laws] screws are screws; bolts are bolts; not frazetta bolts disney eyes or shultz dust clouds. hope that's clearer jmo:)

  • http://www.pantoufledeverre.blogspot.com/ wd_kimmy

    It was the timer, not his cellphone…

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1798064441 Tom Pollin

    Learnt a lot here

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    Thanks and I like it