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Drawing: Tonal Structure
My first try at tonal design:
I felt that this work is rly hard for me to see the edges. there was something off about it. Might be more contrast.
2nd try:
Woon lam then told me to define more edges like this:
And so I tried one last time to do it and decided to go with that for my final:
I feel like I’ve improved in knowing what I want to hide and what I want the viewer to see.
Drawing: 3rd try at composition
I was advised to check out Thomas Moran’s paintings. I really like the way he introduces the landscape to us in his work.
I observed the layers he has in his work and noticed a pattern or a technique he uses with layers. I then decided to copy down his layers of mountains, rocks, plants and river to get an idea of how he uses them to create good compositions.
After copying the compositions, I really had a good idea of what mine should look like:
Drawing: 2nd try at composition
So since my composition involved clouds, I researched on John Constable’s clouds
But then to include more depth I had to include land too..so I decided to get some book on Monet’s trees
But this didn’t give me an idea on how I could composite my shot. I browsed through some comic books woon lam brought to class and took some pictures. I thought that these look dynamic and could help me get an interesting composition.
So then after some research, i proceeded on to trying out my compositions:
I tried using the comic book dynamic composition but I felt it wasn’t working out, In my other compositions I thought I could use the direction of the branches of the trees and the necks of the horses to keep the viewer in the painting.
I also researched on some poses on horses.
The picture of the bones helped to understand the basic form of the horse.
Then I came up with my final composition.
Feedback:
- still need more layers to get more depth
Drawing: Taking Pictures
Here are my photos I took for my composition:
As you can see they consist of architecture and lots of humans and straight lines. I found that to be my weakness as I feel like I can draw more organic items better.
So I decided on a unicorn flying through the clouds and this would be my first composition:
Feedback:
- lacking depth, layers and design
- make use more of compositing my painting
Drawing: Homework Analysis
Above is a pdf link to my homework analysis on 3 artworks.
Drawing: Chiaroscuro
Drawing ICA 1: Drawing in Negative Space
For our first class we were tasked to draw in negative space. I did not really get it at first and was a bit nervous to start drawing in the canteen. When I saw the example drawn in the canteen, I was shocked that I could not make out what he is drawing but it all came alive as he started shading.
Above is my attempt. I am quite disappointed with it because now, I somehow I understand the concept of drawing in negative space where its okay if lines don’t match up to form one complete shape. Because when you fill in the negative space it the eye starts to see the picture even tho not all details are drawn completely.
I’d like to try this again one day to see if I can master drawing in negative space!