Week 21- Human body dynamics

This weeks task in class was to produce a series of 3 pieces all using ink and ink washes. We were painting from a model in still life and we had to consider the structure of the figure along with the line weight ad effect of the washes that we were using and how we could portray an artistic and accurate representation of the human figure. 

I think this task is the one that I have found the most challenging yet as I am not used to painting at all and I really struggled to get used to the inks and how they should be built up. I kept adding too much wash and then  not letting it dry before building up value so my pieces ended up looking a little monotone and I have redone my first attempt at home because I was really unhappy with the outcome. it looked very stiff and I had not been able to capture the anatomy of the figure no create an artist sense to the piece therefore I did chose to redo it in my own time. The result was slightly better than my first attempt as I had gotten used to the washes a little more and was able to build up more of a range of tones. The first piece we had to do was with washes only and we had to focus on creating muscle definition by simply gradually building up the layers of pigment and blending them out with water. We were not to sue any line and weight for this piece. I struggled to keep the form and definition of the figure when doing this piece and I think I did loose some of the key muscle structures to the ink. 

My other 2 pieces were both with the use of link and weight. I had a hard time controlling the ink that I was putting on the page and was very nervous since we weren't allowed to do a sketch of the model beforehand. I think I need some more practise in this area but overall I was able to capture some key shapes through these attempts. If I was to do this task again  I would have been more relaxed with my strokes rather than less stiff and nervous. I think this would have helped me achieve better definition in the muscle contours.