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Part 4, project 4 – research point

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

Historic and contemporary artists whose work involves the underlying structure of the human body. Two strike me immediately: Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) for his methodical and systematic observational studies of anatomy, some of which must have involved dissection; and Gunther von Hagens (1945 – ) who used the bodies themselves in his controversial art/autopsy exhibitions. This 2006 (revised 2011) review by Gareth Bate describes the beauty of the “athletically posed specimens like The Soccer Player or the piece called Elegance on Ice featuring male-female pairs ice skaters, or the stunning head composed entirely of red blood vessels which creates an exact structural likeness.” but also … Continue reading Part 4, project 4 – research point

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Part 4, project 4, exercise 1 – structure, body parts

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

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

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Part 4, project 4, exercise 1 – structure, body parts: Drawing hands

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

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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Part 4, project 4, exercise 1, structure – mouths and eyes

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

Again, there’s video help for this.   These are HB pencil, as per the demo but only the top one is from the demo itself, the other was a drawing by the demonstrator briefly presented to show where light falls on lips. Mouths are clam-shaped. These are ‘invented’ mouths using the same principles, this time with pastel and charcoal pencil (top) and HB pencil alone at the bottom. 31st July – may have added this to an earlier post. More invented mouths, one of them with an invented face and nose in slight profile which is not too successful. Charcoal … Continue reading Part 4, project 4, exercise 1, structure – mouths and eyes

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Part 4, project 4, exercise 1 – feet and noses

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

Best foot forwards! Both charcoal pencil on gesso-prepped cartridge. I thought having to abandon close vision glasses for this (flicking back and forth between even the short distance foot-to-sketchpad is tricky) might be problematic but actually it seems to lead to looser drawings as there’s no way to get tangled up in detail when you can’t see detail at close range. These sketches are preparatory, non-specific practice pieces not, as far as I see at this stage, a formal exercise. But given my lack of models, I can at least use myself and make a start on various limbs and … Continue reading Part 4, project 4, exercise 1 – feet and noses

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Part 3, project 4, exercise 3 – aerial perspective

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

Almost missed this – slip of the page or my head telling me only what I wanted to hear, that there was no such task? Anyway, after establishing I wouldn’t need to risk assess myself for sketching while strapped to a chimney, I had a look through my google photo store to see what I might have in there that would meet requirements and there was a fab little snap of a section of Brighton beach, the lower promenade, where construction was taking place and the sea and sky and the pier took up most of the space. Not a … Continue reading Part 3, project 4, exercise 3 – aerial perspective

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Part 3 project 4 exercise 1 – parallel perspective

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

Parallel perspective is the one that goes straight down the middle of the ‘page’ towards a vanishing point somewhere uncomplicatedly just ahead. The task is to draw an interior and, as luck would have it, I already did. It formed part of a series of indoor sketches and I chose to develop one of those on A2 cartridge. These were 5-10 minute round-the-house sketches; quick and dirty, as it were. I used Prisma colour pencils for this first one. This is white charcoal on pink sugar paper, looking through the doorway at my sofa. White charcoal again on purple sugar … Continue reading Part 3 project 4 exercise 1 – parallel perspective

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Part 3 project 4 exercise 2 angular perspective

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

This is the one that sweeps across your line of sight and off into the top left hand (or right hand) corner. I found a couple of suitable photos (my own) to work from. This first I took some years ago on a wild day in Brighton with the sea pounding up the beach. The second is more recent; a street scene locally. I thought I knew where this was but I realise I don’t! It’s somewhere nearby but my capacity to recognise views without the whole context is appalling. Driving along a regular route, I can only see what’s … Continue reading Part 3 project 4 exercise 2 angular perspective

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Part 2, Project 4, exercise 2

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

Composition. Building on yesterday’s ’round the house’ sketches, it wasn’t difficult to find an area that seemed to lend itself to framing a composition as it’s already framed. This drawing (white charcoal on pink sugar paper) focused largely on the sofa as I could see it through the doorway, but there are so many doorways, like a hall of mirrors (and with a mirror on one wall too), forming a dark tunnel towards the front room. They nest and parallel each other with shades of shadow and spots of light from glass and door knobs. I used black conte on … Continue reading Part 2, Project 4, exercise 2