Life Drawing and 3 Dimensional Form
After our few warm up drawings using varied types of line drawing exercises, we began on a longer timed tonal piece. I began with drawing a quick thumbnail sketch of the models pose and segmenting out main ares of tone.
I then moved on to the actual drawing after the thumbnail, I tried to approach this activity in a similar manner to the Franz Frazzeta, whose work uses this method of instantly putting down giant shaded sections of tone, constantly moving around the piece applying shades in segments. I don't think the approach quite worked the same with my piece, I heavily relied on squinting my eyes to carefully observe the tonal values but in turn made my drawing a bit disconnected in looking three dimensional.
We had to analyse our work by writing out a short list of pros and cons about the piece.
Using a range of mediums our next task was to create a bit of a landscape view using different mediums to portray values in the artwork. The mid tone was actually conveyed as the base shade of the paper, this contrasted well with the darkness of the charcoal and the glow of the chalk sandwiching the paper to be its own medium-tone.
Our final Task was a prolonged pose using our medium of choice, I really gave my hardest effort to express a large variety of tones in this piece, I think due to my first tonal task not coming up as well as i'd have expected it inspired me to try harder using pencil again to show that I really can convey a good sense of three dimensionality in my work. However I did borrow the same basic principle of blocking in the darkest spaces first and just gently feathering in the lighter tones as I progress.
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