January 8th Gestures

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January 8th, 2026

Gestures for today. I do want to stick with this for a month but thinking about how that'll affect my gallery and the file size of my website hm, much to think about, specifically how to optimize things. Of course I didn't optimize putting the gestures and study on the same page, maybe I'll try that tomorrow? I don't know I'm figuring things out. This time my arm didn't get as tired from doing the gestures in fact I barely felt tired unsure as to why feel like my arm adjusting after doing it once is surprising but oh well means I can get to doing study and stuff faster.

After I did the gestures on the 5th I watched some videos on gesture drawing by Michael Hampton, I don't know if it affected how I do these gestures that much but I was trying to think more about C curves and S curves i'm just still as uncontrolled as before. I feel like watching the videos might've helped me mentally though, like idk after I did the ones on the 5th I got really depressed and when I was watching those videos it got me feeling better about how they came out and this time I felt perfectly fine after the gestures. Who knows.

I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to think of interesting commentary for each of these gestures I do honestly. I suppose I don't have to share my gesture drawings a lot of people don't share their practice work, I'm choosing to though just in case anyone ever looks at these and decides to leave feedback and critique in the comments, never know. Not sure about if I'll leave my practice stuff in the art archive there's a lot to consider, i guess maybe it could just depend on how much actual art I get done this year I don't know things can change over time.