Realtime Gesture Video: Heinrich Kley (Patreon)

Last week I took a closer look at the work of German Illustrator Heinrich Kley (Conté Tier). He was a very skilled artist with an academic art background, which gave him a wonderful understanding of the human figure and the anatomy of animals. 

With all his training and experience, he could create wonderful, whimsical characters, blending human and animal together. 

In this week's realtime gesture drawing video, I have taken what I learned from Kley and applied it to horse/human mash-up! 

To warm up, I sketched some loose gestures of horse poses from Pinterest, to get myself more familiar with how horses moved and where I could find their rhythms and lines of actions. 

I used 2 references for each of these poses, one of Amanda and one or a horse at an angle I felt I could blend with Amanda's pose. What I learned from Kley, was to combine the human's pelvis with the horse's shoulder girdle. Quite challenging in places but I was happy with how they all turned out! 

Something completely new for me! I do NOT draw horses and I do NOT centaurs! But using the gesture process and a bit of inspiration from Kley, I had a lot of fun coming up with this original gestures. 

These gestures were created in Photoshop, so that I could edit if I needed to! I knew it wasn't going to be as straight forward as my regular gestures! 

Each of these gesture took around 5-6 minutes. 

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• What do you think of the human / horse combos?! 
• Do the feel connected and flowing?
• What tips or tricks did you find most useful from the examples?
• What other animals would you like to see blended with human anatomy?

- GG

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Model Reference: Amanda Achen