154 • GESTURE AND POSE WITH IDA HEM PART 1 : AN ART BOOK ART-ICKLE

What is Gesture? Let's find out, as we look at an Art-ickle called 'Gesture and Pose with Ida Hem', from the Art Book 'Creating Stylized Characters by 3dtotal Publishing'. This is part one of two, and focuses on: What is Gesture? Squash and Stretch, and Building up from a Gesture. Next week we'll be looking at the rest of this ickle Gesture and Pose with Ida Hem article, which covers Capturing Gestures, and Exploring Personality & Gesture. Topics include: What Do You Think Gesture Is?, The Line of Action, How We Don't Like Stiffys, How Gesture helps to create powerful Silhouettes, How Shapes Tell Stories, Bert Dodson and Trigger Words, Becoming the Character by Physically Posing, How Squashing and Stretching is like Pinching and Pulling, Comparing Good and Bad Poses, The process of Building Up From a Gesture, lil Art Tip of Visualising String being Attached to your Characters, Exaggeration is key for Dynamic Poses, Facing Your Art Fears, Body Language, Shifting Characters Weight via Contrapposto (Counterpoise), What Are T-Poses? And there's a click review of the book 'The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho'. I learnt a lot studying from this article, hope you do too :)