This weeks task had a focus on classism and neo classicism and we had to draw a figure from life that featured clothing and holding an item. I really struggled initially with this to get the proportions accurate between all the features especially with the legs and the size of the head. I was not considering the perspective and how it would effect the sizes of the features in relation to each other. I wanted to make this piece look less stiff than some of my previous ones as I was enjoying doing a more artistic kind of approach to my work instead of looking things so stiff and literally. I really pushes myself to include a variety of tonal variation to show the changes in colour of the fabrics. I think next time I could have gone lighter on the shirt and further knocked back some of the tones to highlight this.
I actually started this piece off very small so later on in the lesson when I was adding in smaller details especially on the face I was struggling to keep the resemblance. I did not spend enough time on the format thumbnails so I ended up doing it the wrong size which did impact the final finished quality of the piece. I think there is some resemblance to the still life model however some notable inaccuracies would be the size of the hand sin relation to the legs and arms. I was happy with my representation of the hard and soft shadows I created in this piece especially on the folds of the fabric.
I think the reason I found this piece a lot more challenging than previous tasks was the fact that this pose was more dynamic than some of the previous ones plus I had not yet attempted a fully shaded figure yet so there was a lot to consider when sketching out the proportions particularly in the variation of line weight and value. I also tried to accurately establish the main prominent shapes in the piece specifically in the fabric of the clothing.
No comments:
Post a Comment