Ooo, I love the action. Even the way you sketched this one lends to that feeling of motion. I wish my own sketches were this lively.

It's actually pretty easy, BUT you have to give up some measure of contgrol. Seriously, if you do a sowrd fight or even football, first you start woith a curved line, the more curved the more active. Then you out the head at the top, the ribcage below it, and the hips, and so on, then think does the curve carry through the right, or left leg? or the tail, perhaps? So then that gesture line is waht adds the life. THinks "Gesture, Construction, Anatomy, Technique, (GCAT), and from there movekent will flow. Took me a while tp "push it" and I still hold back often tikes, but for a life or death fight, or any adrenaline moment, it's gotta move! Hope thiws helps.

Ooooo, and giving up control has always been an issue with me. I was the stubborn kid in life drawing who refused to do gesturing...but it's something I need to get out of so that I CAN do awesome lively stuff like yours. Your work is proof that you can have those very organic and sketchy lines and still make something look professional, deliberate, and tidy. And that's very rare.

I shall try harder, and I thank you for your advice. One day I shall implement it...when I'm brave enough to try a really actionish piece.

Seriousklym, because the control is what you give up inthe beginnining. You aciev it in the end though with the constriuction (making spomething plausible out of the first gewstures), then Anatomy (To make comsthing true from the construction). and then technique (to make the anatomy and the pic beautiful) Soetimes in a drawing but especially a paonting, at the 70-80 percent mark, art will go through a stage of "the uglies" push through, keep going forward, but then sometimes you ahve to scrap your attemtps and start fresh. Speed over love.

Scott

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