ABSTRACT
In the following drawings you can sense the fi rst impression was so strong that the guidance system had little correcting to do. The artist is James Fujii.
20 Pantomime (Drawing) Preparation Each week I try to reproduce some student’s sketches with my suggestion drawings beside them, with a commentary on what goes through my mind to come up with a “storytelling ” gesture. When those thoughts are written down, it seems like it must cover quite a span of time. While I am sketching and talking it takes but 10 or 15 seconds, but when just sketching, it usually takes but a split second to ferret out the manner in which the constituent parts tell the story. In doing this I am not suggesting that you have to think like me to make a good gesture drawing. Individuality is one of our chief contributions to creativity, so you will develop your own line of investigation. That will make all of our drawings different, but will assure that they have all been thought through to entertaining conclusions.
