Theoretical Foundations of Art and Design

Life Drawing

Life Drawing 1

In this first piece you can see a good understanding of shape and form within the model. To achieve this i used the box technique which is lightly penciling box forms to show the gesture of the model. This also made it easier to show the weight within the piece which you can identify by the waist. I also achieved this using box forms which helped map out the planes that the hips where on giving more depth to the final product. This pose was 5 minutes, which isn't very long but in saying that i managed to get the solid gesture out of the pose. My criticisms would be that there isn't really any strong visible gesture lines within this piece, also there is hardly any visible line of action. This could have been improved on by gathering more information on the gesture of the model before adding harder lines maybe by using gestural lines as well of boxing out the form. Maybe include spherical forms as well. 

Life Drawing 2

In this piece i focused on the gesture more than anything. This piece was a one minute sketch and was meant to show our understanding of fluidity, gesture and movement within the model. There are visible gesture lines within this piece that helped capture the strong pose of the model. This was achieved my using a measurement technique were you hold the pencil up in front of you with one eye closed and from that using your pencil you can justify the distance of each part of the body e.g. the distance between the head and shoulders. From there you have to transfer that information onto a two dimensional plane (Paper). My Criticism would have to be on Proportion, the information in the legs are wrong and appear short. This could been developed more by finding the planes that the legs were on and then adding the gestural lines after which would of help measure the proportion giving me a better much strong pose. Also the head is on the wrong plane as well, almost looking two dimensional. Again this could have been developed by considering the perspective and measuring the distance between the chin and shoulder. 

Life Drawing 3

This piece was around 5 minutes, focusing on using box forms to find the gesture within the model.  You can see that using these box forms helped to identify the form of the muscle especially the oblique's. You get sense of the muscle wrapping around the model. This was achieved by using box forms to identify which planes the oblique's sat on. My critic would have to again be on the proportion of the piece. Again the legs, the left legs to too short and looks like the model has his leg elevated when it should be flat on the floor. Also the rendering of the piece is sketch which could have been worked on if a blending pencil was applied giving the piece depth.

   

Life Drawing 4

This was a quick 5 min sketch also focusing on box shape forms, weight and gesture. I focused on the hips of the model, trying to identify the weight shift within the hips. Also worked on trying to clearly show the gesture within this pose. In the second pose ( the smaller one) I focused on using box forms to identify the area where muscle would be under the skin so that when I comes to rendering I would know where the shadows would lay. My critics would have to be the hips in the first pose; they appear big making the model look feminine when it was a male model. This could be due to the fact that in focusing too much on the hips I may have exaggerated them. Using the measuring technique i could have measured the distance between the hips and transferred that information accordingly, ending up with better proportions.

Life Drawing 5

The session we were focusing on parts of the model. I chose the foot because personal I find that the hardest part of the body to draw. This sketch was close to three to five minutes long. I used box forms and spherical forms that are visible in this piece. The ankle was identified using spherical forms also the toes (phalanges). Box forms to used to identify the face of the foot which helped identify the shape. My critics would be that if I had more time I would have rendered the piece giving it more depth and life. Also this piece lacks movement, the angle of the ankle indicates slight movement but maybe through rendering and more detail i could have shown a stronger identification of movement within the foot.

Life Drawing 6

I also decided to focus on the hands of the model because like the feet I find hands quite hard to draw. To start i identified the line of action within each hand gesture from there i used box and spherical forms to find the shape of the hand ; identifying where the Carpals,  Metacarpals and Phalanges would be. After that lightly penciled in the shape of the hand and finally rendering to give depth. My critics would have to be that some of the hands have very strong line which doesn't make sense according with the light source making some of the pieces look stylized . Maybe going over and erasing some of the harder edges would have added more realism to the piece.