Gesdro: Gesture Drawing

Capture the motion, not the outline. Gesdro is an iPad app built for one thing: short, focused gesture drawing practice. ■ CG pose references, made for this app Two figures, male and female, in standing, walking, stepping, crouching and seated poses, each shot from front, three-quarter, side and back. Every image is framed identically, at the same subject size, so your eye never has to hunt for the figure when the pose changes. (The exact count is shown in the app's credits screen.) ■ Switch the same pose between Body and Skeleton One tap swaps the reference for a simplified artist's skeleton: the rib cage and pelvis masses, the joints, the axes of the limbs. It shows beginners what the "Simplified Figure" step is really asking them to find. ■ Two step-by-step patterns ・Basic: Line of Action, then Simplified Figure, then Cylinders ・Big Shape: Line of Action, then one big mass Each layer…