Now for MacOS as well!

Gesturize is a training application designed to help artists of any level improve and refine their drawing skills. By purchasing Gesturize you will get both the Windows and MacOS versions for life, including future updates to this product.

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If you want to try Gesturize - Artist training hub for free before choosing to buy it, you can get a trial version here

About Gesturize

CREATE LIBRARIES

You can create custom libraries from your references, and use them coupled with any available training. A library can be created choosing a folder or the individual files. Once a folder is selected, all files in it and it's sub folders will be loaded and added to the library for future use.

TRAINING SESSIONS AND CUSTOM TRAINING

Use pre established sets of training sessions or create your own custom training for every day of the week. You can choose between Standard, Class, Fixed or Custom training:

• Standard training: choose a time interval as well as the libraries you want to use and get drawing until you decide to stop.
• Class training: choose among different class lengths, ranging from 30 minutes to 3 hours. Each class has different sets of sessions assigned to them, starting with quick drawings and diving into longer ones later on.
• Fixed training: choose a number of images, a time interval and start drawing until there are no images left.
• Freeplay training: Train for a set amount of time, and you decide when the images change.
• Custom training: you can assign custom training to each day of the week, and each day consists of a list of customizable drawing sets.

Each set has a name, amount of images and timer for each image, all configurable beforehand. You can also assign different libraries to different sets, in order to allow complete freedom in the way you want to train.

Custom training can also be exported and imported. Use this to create backups or share your training with a friend!

POSE FINDER

Pose Finder is an advanced feature that finds similar references in your library based on the pose you want. To tell Gesturize what similar poses you want to find, you can either use a reference image or pose a stickman skeleton for a fully custom search!

DRAWING STATISTICS

Gesturize offers statistics for each type of available training. This way you can track the time you spent training in each mode when the timer is enabled.

Using the graphs you will be able to know:

• Today's time spent in a certain mode
• Total amount of time spent in a certain mode
• The amount of time spent in a training mode in a specific day in the last 14 days.

FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE

The app offers two main themes, light and dark. But if you feel like you want more, there are options to change almost all of the colors used by the base UI. This way every user can have their custom flavoured theme.

What's new in 1.6.0

Most requested features

Here are some of the features added based on your feedback and suggestions (Thanks!)

• Added a "change image" button that changes current image without losing current training slot.
• When going to the previous image during training with random enabled, it now actually goes to the previously displayed image and not the previous image in the whole list.
• Drag & drop is more efficient now and gives more visual feedback when initiated.

Everything else

Here is the list of new things added. Ranging from quality of life to full on new features!

Study hall and general training

• Added possibility to enable/disable training random playback before starting a session (in custom training too).
• Added button to remove all selected libraries from session (instead of removing one by one if you have a lot).

Library

• Searching libraries now hides empty groups in order to save space.
• You can now expand/contract all groups.
• When viewing a library or a single image in the gallery, you can now open that in the file explorer.
• You can now pull a random image from any library without entering training.
• When browsing content of a library you can get a random image from it.
• You can now open the library menu (the three dots) with right-click (insane).

Pose finder

• Added pose finder info/tutorial with the full explanation of how it works (take a look!).
• Added possibility to choose which libraries end up in the database for ease of use.
• When a new library is added, pose generation will now only add the new library instead of regenerating the database from scratch.
• Added mouse controls to pose finder skeleton (rotation, zoom, pan and mirror).
• You can now choose generation type and the amount of background processes to use in order to improve database generation performance.
• Database creation can now run in the background so you can train while Gesturize extracts the poses (just make sure not to use the max amount of background processes).

Settings

• You can now see where Gesturize stores data and you can delete it if you want.

Bug-fixes and optimizations

Next you can find a list of bugs and problems that were solved this patch. Make sure to notify me if you find more that haven't been resolved yet!

• Fixed some visual bugs for dark and light themes.
• When adding multiple folders as separate libraries, the imported libraries ended up with an empty name.
• Fixed name sorting order bug in the libraries.
• Sometimes in training camp the play/pause button would have the wrong icon.
• The popup menu for selecting libraries in the session was sometimes too tall, hiding confirm and close buttons.
• Dragging and dropping the libraries would work with any mouse button press, now it only works with left click.
• Gesturize would crash when selecting class mode with length of 90 minutes.
• Loading screen would sometimes get stuck after selecting images/folders for libraries.
• Image EXIF data was not handled for library thumbnails, resulting in them sometimes having the wrong rotation.
• Other minor performance improvements.

System requirements

• Windows 8/10/11
• MacOS 11 or later (Apple Silicon only)
• Supported images: JPG, JPEG, PNG, BMP