Session 3 Observation & Memory Drawing, Shape 2 Forms in Perspective

Using what you KNOW (theory) to create Illusion

Exercises to help organization- "stretches before the walk"
Gesture Drawing
Loose,
size relationships & proportions
mapping it out
Composition using a view finder

Perspective Drawing- Illusion #1
Shape to Form

  • Vantage Point and Horizon Line
  • Birds Eye View
  • Worms Eye View


Creating Spatial Depth-Group of Forms



What do you notice about the color of these three pumpkins?
What do you notice about the size?
About the detail?
What 2 things do you notice notice about the placement 
in the picture plane of the 3 pumpkins?
What is the Reality??... are all of these pumpkins the same size?


Answer!!
2 Small
1 Large



Comments

  1. lynsey murrayMarch 15, 2011 at 3:32 PM

    What are basic Forms?
    What are some things we can name that have those basic Forms?
    How can we draw them from Memory?

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Sphere Form of the Human Head at various angles

Image
See the "longitude" lines on a beach ball Every Human and Creature on the Earth can be croken down into its BASIC Cylinder & Sphere FORM How do we combine BASIC FORMS into more COMPLEX?? Rough Sketches of Cylinders The stripes on the Shirt and Hat give Clues to the FORM underneath The human eyeball IS a perfect sphere Human heads are not 'perfect' spheres Draw the Sphere as if it were a basket ball The Head looking in various directions
Read more

Figure Drawing - Proportion and Basic Form

Image
Abstracted Wooden Figure Simple Form Static Firgure in a Dynamic Pose Breaking the Complex Figure into BASIC forms People/Artists who want to develop their drawing skills regularly draw from a live nude model. Of course...in lieu of nude model students draw from their teacher, and classmates who learn about the various poses that make for interesting drawings and challenge "seeing" correct proportions and movement of the human form . Student/Artists are challenged to imagine the skeleton hips, spine, and shoulders as well as how to show weight and tension when examining a particular pose. Seated Figure Standing Figure   Skeletal and Muscular Systems
Read more

Session 5 Foreshortening & the Figure

Image
Foreshortening is the distortion that happens to Forms in Perspective Perspective refers to the vantage point of the viewer 1st we will review the cylinder and ellipse/circle concept Contour drawings of Shoes from multiple views Hands & Gloves http://community.livejournal.com/glockart/25477.html Working from a Model Contrapposto
Read more