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Gesture in Architectural Drawing

Gesture is a translation of the essential characteristics of those shapes you draw. The Kienetic abstraction of a whole form.

Gesture - Architectural Drawing

It captures rhythm, flow, movement in space.

If you try to draw a gesture with outer edges, you are missing the point of a gesture drawing.

Values in Gesture

The capability of lines to portray in Lights and darks.

Values in Gesture

You need to feel visually the Rise and Fall, the Heights, Widths, Depths, Lengths, Masses and Volumes of the form as though you were crawling randomly over every inch of space or the form.

Values in Gesture

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