{"id":5400,"date":"2020-06-04T13:50:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T20:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eu.shop.wacom.eu\/us\/?p=5400"},"modified":"2026-06-05T09:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:29:14","slug":"gesture-drawing-for-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/gesture-drawing-for-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Gesture drawing for performance"},"content":{"rendered":"Gesture drawing is about getting the general sense of how the body moves and how the parts are anatomically connected.\u00a0 It involves quickly capturing the action, form and pose of a subject. Improving your gesture drawing is essential to improving your overall character design. By understanding a few fundamentals, you'll be able to practice efficiently and get better at your art.\n\nIn the video below,\u00a0 professional storyboard artist, Mike Morris, uses his <a href=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/us\/gesture-drawing-for-performance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wacom One creative display<\/a> to share insights about the practice and underlying philosophy of acting and performance for gesture drawing.\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9iAiN-3G7qI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5408\" src=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/06\/morris-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Morris\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/06\/morris-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/06\/morris-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/06\/morris-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/06\/morris-480x480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/06\/morris.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>About Mike<\/h2>\nMike Morris is a professional storyboard, comic and animation artist and longtime Wacom friend.\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AnimikeArt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professional storyboard artist, Mike Morris, gives insights about the practice and underlying philosophy of acting and performance for gesture drawing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2326,2325,2317],"tags":[56,695,696,697,698,699,671],"class_list":["post-5400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animation","category-back-to-school","category-digital-drawing-painting","tag-character-design","tag-conveying-expression","tag-emotion","tag-fundamentals","tag-gesture-drawing","tag-line-of-action","tag-mike-morris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}