This week was a really tough week. I had a lot of homework to do and a lot of it was a real challenge. So let me share some of that with you.
I really love my clothed figure drawing class, there is just something really fun about it. The costumes really add something fun and extra to the whole process than just drawing nudes all day. The thing I'm trying to focus on with this is using wraparounds and implying 3 dimensional shape with line and little tone. It's pretty hard and I have not mastered it in the slightest, but I'm learning a lot.
20 minute sketch
A 20 minute sketch where I was a model for myself
Another 20 minute sketch
10 minute sketches
5 minute warmup sketches
This week in my perspective class we were focusing on thumbnailing ideas and using atmospheric perspective. Atmospheric perspective is the idea that things further in the distance (especially in an outdoor scene or underwater) become less contrasted in value and start to fade into the sky color behind everything. Usually things in the foreground are much more crisp. This is due to the moisture in the air that sort of starts to mute the colors and value of things as they move farther away from your view in space. Emulating this in your drawings adds an added level of dimension and 3D space to the image. We were also focusing on doing this with thumbnails.
Thumbnails are important as they help you solve value and compositional problems before you spend hours and hours on the final image. With these thumbnails I was trying to keep details minimal and use shapes and value to present a simplified idea from which I can build upon.
In my intro to anatomy course, we are slowly going though bones and bony landmarks. Bony landmarks are really useful visual landmarks that can help you identify proportions, maintain proper relationships between various reference points on the figure, and they also provide a feeling of structure under the fleshy parts of the body. I didn't share my work from week 2 so here is some of that work from the past two weeks that involved the torso, the pelvis, and the lower leg and foot. These were drawn in Charcoal on newsprint.
The Torso
The Pelvis
Putting that all together
The bones of the lower leg
Putting it all together from various angles
I have an art history course that I am working on as well. There has really only been a long term essay that I had to write that I will share here when I complete it this week. It is on Kenyon Cox, a very amazing and talented muralist and academic portrait painter who lived from 1856 to 1919.
That's all for now! Stay tuned as I update with more work that I'm doing later this week!
