Week 25- Art nouveau

 

The final traditional task of this term was by far the most challenging for me. The task combine a lot of the skills that we have been practising this term and combine them into one. Much like the previous task we had to draw a 3/4 human figure from life fully coloured on a toned paper. I was interested to try using coloured pencil on the tan paper to see what kind of tonal representation I could get when combing these elements. I did really enjoy doing the task with the colour and black values on the brown paper so I was interested to see how coloured pencils would look. In the lesson I started by laying out some of the initial tones using a light brown shade so that I could start adding in the main proportions of the figure. I think so far my tasks have been successful with the resemblance however with this task I did struggle quite a lot to keep accurate resemblance. I wish I had spent more time figuring out the proportions of the face before going in with my values as I think I needed to establish more of a solid base to start adding the tones onto. Some of the placement of the features does look a bit off however I think the overall proportions of the body have worked well.

The muscular structure in relation to the clothing was also a challenging part of my process as I had to add shade to the top after the lesson was over since I didn't have time to in the lecture I tried my best to consider how the muscles would effect the clothing. I am pleased with the colour pallet I chose for this and I did try and reflect the colours in other area such as the skin where the tones would be slightly reflecting off them.