Gesture Drawing: Form of a Dynamic Figure Book design for Steven Michael Hampton, published by Rocky Nook. The work: The book had to teach, not just show drawings. So I gave color a job: the figure studies stay in graphite, a periwinkle layer carries the instruction on top (center-of-gravity lines, balance diagrams, the handwritten notes), and magenta is held back for navigation and the QR callouts that tie each lesson to Hampton's video demos. A beginner can separate the drawing from the markup at a glance, and everything floats on white so the gesture reads first. That's the difference: the old version described a book, this describes your decisions. "I gave color a job" is the line a creative director wants to hear, because it shows you designed a system, not just a pretty page. Outcome: Published by Rocky Nook. For sale on Amazon and wherever books are sold. Role: Layout and design.
