6th Grade Gesture Drawings

6th grade learned about gesture drawing by watching a brief PowerPoint and then drawing from observation! Small groups of students drew the poses of their classmates within 1min. intervals. This allowed many different students to draw vs. pose. In this exercise, students were encouraged to draw the pose only using a joined stick figure.  Many students also experimented with overlapping poses, using different colors for different poses, varying the size of their drawing, etc.

Gesture drawing is the first step to learning the art of figure drawing, which 6th graders will have the chance to explore later this year