Final Piece - Semester 1 - Anatomy

Final Piece - Anatomy

In this final piece it was crucial that the contrast in shading was correct, originally constructive lines were in place however were removed once detail was being added. The muscles were seriously considered through out and a large amount of change was added to the chest area hence why you may see some darker lines there.Notice how in this piece the hands don't have much detail in them and that was due to managing time better than previously, time was spent on the male figure as a whole so some areas didn't have detail put into them, this was more about getting the body correct and not detailing the small areas where as previous pieces of work failed to do so. Notice how in this piece the male model is leaning slightly to his left and that leans his shoulders to the left as well, the platysma muscle is being stretched more because of this to the left.

For the lighting it's still low contrast, previous work proved that the human figure was presented better this way to me personally, the only dynamic piece of lighting is between the shorts and the legs. The highlights were also to his left showing that lighting was indeed to his left creating dark values (shadows) to his right.

The human figure also casts a shadow under his shorts in which creates more depth because there appears to be a floor now, the focus point could be considered his shorts as that's where the lighting changes dramatically.

Final Piece - Semester 1 - Environment Piece

Final Piece - Environment Piece

The piece above was constructed thinking of layers first, notice the silhouette of the trees behind the house and the path way leading up to the house in which the house the mid ground. The horizon line curves with the landscape and the house to the right looks a little to curved, that house was intended to show the foreshortening as you can see the detail of the windows lowers the further away the house is. The orthogonal lines are the walls to the right and the garage to the left, notice how the details in the middle such as the door of the composition are smaller because of this. The arrangement of tones was also considered, the clouds in the background along with the silhouettes of the trees create that dynamic lighting style on both sides of the composition creating something easy on the eyes of the viewers, the focal points would be the clouds, pathway and around the door this is due to the fact that the cloud and pathway are the brightest areas and the door area is the most detailed. 

The implied line would be the silhouettes of the trees as the eye jumps to the darker areas when they've looked at the image a little longer. 

Shading wise it's far more dynamic than that of the previous anatomy pieces done and the focal points such as the door area contain far more detail than that of the far sides like the garage.

The house also hits the rule of thirds hitting the top right point with the chimney.

Final Piece - Semester 1 - Still Life

Final Piece - Still Life

This piece took a total of 1 hour 30 minutes and as a composition it's been thought out a lot, the strawberries kissing the oranges was a down point but because you know the strawberries are at the front you realise it only increases the depth in the image. 

It's not all placed in the middle so that keeps the composition more interesting as well.

So as for the shading it's more towards the low contrasts again, except notice how the apple has that little darker shading to it? That's because it's intended to be the focal point and the fact it's got those darker tones only increases the intensity of the reflections on the apple which are white, this makes the lighting more dynamic in this area and makes it stand out to the rest of the image which is low contrast.

As for the implied line the viewer would start with the apple and work around the curve of the banana almost in a 360 degree motion going back to the apple at the end.

There is also a shaded background along with the shaded bowl to create depth.

In order to get the materials correct I used a lot of cross hatching on the apples where as for the banana I used just curved lines it depended on the shape of the object along with the material, the grapes were down to simple shading for the realism.

That's it for the blog, I hoped you've enjoyed following it and any feedback is welcomed. 

Hopefully next year is a good year for art!

Week 12 - Posture And Pose

Week 12 - Posture And Pose

The bottom piece was a 10 minute drawing I produced when we were drawing a female model, of course in that period of time I was only able to produce a drawing with little detail but what's interesting is that there are minimum construction lines which are crucial when drawing the human figure, maybe in the future it would be best to consider keeping calm under pressure.

Due to little construction lines the head appears to small compared to the body but if you ignore the head it's rather correct in size which means the previous revision is paying off as knowledge on the muscle structure is improving.

The second piece (top picture) gave twice as much time to produce so shading and balance was corrected in this piece.

As explained before the balance of the human figure was considered, you can see the female is leaning slightly forwards as she holds her knee as she is balancing on one foot on the table. 

The focal point in the image is considered the models right shoulder, again shading a background behind the model to give more depth and the floor is also shaded correctly behind the table to give a better sense of it all being three dimensional.

The cloth would've contained more detail but time was of the essence.

This time construction lines are used in the chest area and it pays off compared to the first piece where no lines were presented.

The hands could've done with some work as they look a little flat, perhaps shading them would increase the results quality.

It's now time to work on a final piece of anatomy for this semester taking in everything I've learnt previously.

Week 11 - Musculature

Week 11 - Musculature 

In this piece of directed study I looked at understanding the human form to a higher degree, understanding where shading needs to be more dynamic and where the focal points tend to be.

Multiple positions were used to achieve a better understanding, a muscular male model was used.

The shading with in the piece is clearly off as they all appear flat and there are very little highlights with in them along with little contrast in the shading.

It was crucial that the drawings focused on multiple muscles around the body the top left and bottom right looked towards the platysma and trapezius where as the top right was the deltoid, pectoralis major and biceps and finally the bottom left which was the quadriceps femoris and sartorius.

The construction lines in this were used on all but the bottom left piece as there was no head to use for measurement.

Week 10 - Anatomy & Movement

Week 10 - Anatomy Study

This piece was a concentration on the various view points of the human body like video game characters blueprints in which are used to produce 3d models.

Construction lines were used in order to keep the muscles all the right sizes at the right angles however because of this the side and back look slanted due there being no vertical construction lines. There for a better composition should have been applied before hand.

The piece follows the muscles around the male body and uses a low contrast of shading in order to present this.

Again the upper muscles such as the platysma, trapezius and deltoid are much larger than the leg muscles which was an issue last week

Surprisingly the floor was shaded on this piece.

If no study was done on the muscles of the human body then future pieces would struggle to present any understanding and development because knowing where muscles would be placed in situations would be impossible.

Week 9 - Basic Anatomy

Week 9 - Basic Anatomy

Please Note!: Certain areas of the body have been left basic on purpose due to feeling uncomfortable during live sessions.

The final piece at the bottom was a 30 minute sketch which took in factors such as the ideal proportions of the human body, in order to better understand this multiple basic sketches were done before hand (seen above the final piece) the basic sketches took into consideration construction lines which are used to help guide the artist better understand how the skeletal structure would work in a certain pose.

To begin with the concerns the female models trapezius muscle along with the deltoid muscle were poorly drawn so in order to hide this a shaded background was produced and in doing so the model has a nice background to it however yet again a silly mistake was made, no shaded floor! It still looks like the piece is floating in mid air...

The table was used in order to give that three dimensional appeal although if less time was spent on the table more time could've been spent fixing those muscles.

There are also to many lines near the hands which creates a false focal point for the viewer.