What makes an interesting drawing ?
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| Section of 2D exercise |
It doesn't matter how simple or complex something is in appearance. What matters is how the objects
you want to draw are arranged in a pre-determined space and how they touch or intersect.
The composition appears on your paper when you record the resulting lines and contours, showing how they interact with the negative spaces and the format of your frame.
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| Foreshortening Upside Down 2D exercise |
One of this week's exercises was an introduction to foreshortening which will be followed up in a few weeks time. It shows how perspective drawing can be achieved through observation of interacting negative spaces and positive shapes.
Gallery 3
This gallery shows the how the students have begun to address composition. Some absolutely stunning work done this week. Well done everyone
Catherine
'Really enjoyed the hand drawing.
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| Catherine |
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| Catherine |
Found the table and lamp more difficult and ran out of space !!
Noticing an improvement in my drawing already. Taking an hour and a half for each one though !!!'
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| Catherine |
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| Peter |
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| Peter |
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| Peter |
Lyn
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| Lyn |
'The bottle at the front being an odd shape, especially the top, and
being glass caused me a real headache. I could not get it to look
right'
'I nearly gave up on this as my
hand kept moving position Pleased I didn't as I was ' really chuffed '
with the result !!'
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| Lyn |
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| Lyn |
'This was my first large
object ie not on the table and I had no idea how to approach it. I
started with a frame on my pad, then hand - held my viewer but it kept
moving. I then decided to just draw it which reduced the time
enormously. Finished result - not too bad.'
Marian
'The concept of negative spaces is a real revelation, it has helped
me greatly in making the leap from copying from 2D to drawing from life.
The drawing of my hand is so superior to the one of just 4 weeks ago, it is hard to believe it was done by the same person.'
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| Marian |
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| Marian |
'Using
the viewer helped me greatly to see the perspective in the drawing of
the chair, I am finding the viewer much easier to use now that I am
using an easel and not having to move my head between subject/viewer and
paper.
I enjoyed choosing my still life, but soon realised
that getting so many curved objects right was not going to be easy.
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| Marian |
I
had particular problems with the bevel on the dial, and getting it to
'sit' on the front surface of the scales.'
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| Marianne |
'Took many hours re-drawing negative spaces to portray the objects turned at an angle. Learnt a lot about looking'
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| Marianne |
'This took several hours. Had to grid it. Perspective I found very difficult. Don't want to draw a chair for a long time.'
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| Marianne |
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| Judy |
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| Judy |
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| Judy |
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| Phil |
Phil
'For this drawing I must say that I was
very happy doing it and after finishing it I was fairly satisfied.
Maybe you are right saying that you can
teach me drawing! Never suspected that I could draw a hand like this.'
Elaine
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| Elaine |
'I found this difficult. Elongated fingers.
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| Elaine |
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| Elaine |
This was easier. I tried shading but should have left it alone!'
Fiona Weote
ReplyDeleteI think all the hand drawings are great, Catherine's particularly, Lyn is doing very well too , interesting use's of still life and Marions chair is great, but everyone is progressing so well. Well done. I do hope you will have an exhibition/private view.
My friend Debbie wrote
ReplyDeleteWow, it all looks wonderful and very inspiring (lots of hard work, I know). Maybe I'll actually get my act together and pick up a pencil and paper rather than sitting in front of the computer all day!!