“A pincelada procura o li, a essência interior das coisas, as suas linhas interiores e invisíveis, os ritmos que animam e relacionam as coisas e seres…”
Shitao
“Without a sympathetic emotional reaction in the artist there can be no real, no penetrating understanding.”
Nicolaides
The Natural Way to Draw, p.24The impulse of the Gesture. The study of gesture is not simply a matter of looking at the movement that the models makes. You must also seek to understand the impulse that exists inside the model and causes the pose which you see. The drawing starts with the impulse, not the position. The thing that makes you draw is the thing that makes the model take the position.
