Negative Space - Extension Homework

Ann and Ellie's homework after our negative space session in class is shown below. 
During last lesson we discussed the images and talked a lot about the problems that were encountered.  

I am going to paraphrase their and my comments with the images because it is always helpful for anyone reading this post to understand the processes and problems that occur when working without guidance.

Ann

It took Ann several attempts to do a drawing of this table intersected by a vase.

 Ann has identified that she has difficulty with proportions at this stage 
and her drawings tend to 'grow' disproportionately if she is not careful. We both think she needs to work on a drawing easel so that she can track what she sees directly onto her drawing. Foreshortening can easily occur when you draw on a sketchpad that is angled.
The benefit of doing more than one sketch was that her table proportions really improved!!!

 However she had little problem with drawing this sketch of negative spaces around foreshortened arms and feet. 

She was also pleased with her improved proportions of the hand plus object sketch on the right



In this practice piece of a section of a 2D drawing, the focus was to create it from the negative spaces and not focus on the 'subject'. The foot in the drawing didn't 'look' right to Ann until she realised that she had really focused on the shape of the leg and foot and not on how it interacts with the spaces around it. I also think that if she had included more of the surrounding information she would have found it easier to spot the problem.

Ellie

 Ellie had a lot of trouble trying to get her vase to 'sit' on the stool in her still life. After looking at it together she quickly saw that the base of the stool looked as if it was floating because it was on the same plane line as the back of the stool.
However her negative space work on the stool was really positive, even if the composition wasn't 100% successful.

So she decided to have another try and produced her cat-on-the-table sketch. I really liked the graphic quality of the image.

2D work

Ellie had a couple of tries with the 2D hands and arms work but completed these well and her section of the girl on the chair had good focus on the negative spaces.

 





In this hand plus object sketch we disussed how her point of view had changed where she must have moved her head after drawing the thumb, pencil and first finger, which made it look our of proportion. She also tends to change or invert angles of lines, which we will be looking at in Lesson 6.

All valuable points for discussion and in general I am really happy with the progress that they are both making.