This task is very much about movement and the use of gesture. I found some suitable images via a Google search and made sure I used quick strokes to execute the flow of movement in each. I will also admit … Continue reading Part 4, project 3, exercise 4 – energy
This exercise requires the production of six poses and again I’ve used myself and mirrors. I did rather forget about some aspects of the task through focusing on getting the shapes as near to right as possible, and although I … Continue reading Part 4, project 3, exercise 2 – essential elements
Various body parts. Dominant hand drawing, charcoal pencil. I still find foreshortening tricky and getting the shape of hands right. Non-dominant hand drawing from a photograph. Pastel and charcoal pencil. Those glasses don’t really sit right but I’m quite pleased with the intimation of head movement towards the right shoulder. See also https://conboyhilldrawingone.wordpress.com/2019/08/09/part-4-project-4-structure-drawing-hands/ https://conboyhilldrawingone.wordpress.com/2019/07/31/figure-and-form-mouths-and-eyes/ https://conboyhilldrawingone.wordpress.com/2019/07/29/figure-and-form-finding-my-feet/ Continue reading Part 4, project 4, exercise 1 – structure, body parts
The task is to use a model and to block in basic shapes as they sat. Lacking a model, I am using internet images and my own photographs. Rather than detail, I’m aiming at form using more gesture than measurement. This suits my way of perceiving shape; too much attention to that kind of detail and I lose track of the whole. Quick sketch of a seated figure via Bing. This is a sculpture listed by American Legacy Fine Arts, the artist’s name isn’t given. I’ve used black conte. I didn’t get the angle of the head, either from the … Continue reading Part 4, project 3, exercise 1 – basic shapes
Continuing from an earlier series of preparatory sketches, this is a tracing of the photo I took of the pose. My aim was to ‘feel’ the shapes and angles – head tilt and vertical neck line and how that is … Continue reading Assignment 4 – seated figure
Line drawing. Influences: David Hockney’s simplicity of line even in his paintings, and Henry Moore’s circular wire-frame marks. I am including Egon Schiele because of his expert economy of line although I abhor his subject matter; nevertheless he comes to my conscious mind enough to suspect that his techniques are woven into my impressions. Finally Paula Rego whose robust figures draw me for all sorts of reasons, including the volume she achieves with lines and marks. Hockney. This tiny clip of a clip illustrates just how simple lines can be and still suggest shape, volume, and texture. The pillow is … Continue reading Part 4 Assignment 4 preparatory work seated figure
I have never quite ‘got’ Fibonacci because I have never needed to but a recent image brought it right into focus. In the absence of real world moving models to draw, I’ve been using the live stream from NASA’s JPL laboratory where they’re building the 2020 Mars lander, and while everyone is dressed in white one piece coveralls, boots, hoods, and masks, they move, they gesture, they bend and stretch, climb and curl up into small spaces. Two days ago they formed a tableau that reminded me of a piece of classic art but I couldn’t recall what it was. … Continue reading Fibonacci’s spiral and the Golden Ratio
This came up earlier in the module but I hadn’t seen it discussed with reference to paintings that didn’t strike me immediately as employing this technique or method of focusing the eye and drawing attention to areas of demarcation. This very readable discussion by Dan Scott refers to John Singer Sargent’s painting of Madam X; how he used very blended and light brushwork for her skin and much darker, broader strokes for her hair, dress and background. Everything is about the posed elegance of this socialite who, by all accounts, had as much of an opinion of herself as Sargent … Continue reading Negative space and chiaroscuro
I have found a way to do this, a compromise between my sense of exploitation when using (and it’s that word) the bodies of others for my own purpose and making do with static figures in photographs caught in movement. … Continue reading Part 4, project 3, exercise3 – stance
After some dismal attempts in Part 4, exercise 2, I’ve taken myself to YouTube hand drawing boot camp. This is the first video: The demonstrating artist makes very precise photorealistic drawings which I’m unlikely to be doing. However, her way … Continue reading Part 4, project 4, exercise 1 – structure, body parts: Drawing hands
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