And so, and so, and so,
I really enjoyed the final project, I think it would have helped though to have done it two or three times first to get a better feel for the size of the image and the ink. I do feel like the size really gave me the chance to make some bold strokes in wash, and really get my whole body into the movement. At first mapping out the image seemed a little difficult, but I made some compositional decisions to not include all of the spikes and to enlarge the image to the most bulky point of the shell.
It was hard to position the shell, because the spikes form straight along three "sides" of the shell, many positions (with a diagonal axis) still seemed flat. So I minimized the spines and tightened in the composition.
From the time between the final and midterm, I felt like I learned a lot just because we were revisiting some of the structures that most commonly define us as human--hands, feet, and faces. It's really relieving to be able to understand how to really "see" these structures because you can start to get past these really popular misconceptions of what a nose or mouth or anything looks like.
I feel like in the last studio, the full body image I drew was my most successful. I was also excited to start using conte again, it has a really great quality to it. I can't wait to do more like this.
Some things I still need to work on are checking and rechecking plane changes to make sure that when something is pointed at the station point, it makes sense in how it falls away from that point. I would also like to keep working on contours and exaggerating lines where they need to be and recognizing lines that need to be simplified or left as they appear. I also want to work on starting lighter and moving towards the dark.
Final Images on
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10thstreeteast/sets/72157622914297057/
Monday, December 21, 2009
Monday, December 14, 2009
Feet as hands
If you've ever seen The Last King of Scotland a movie about Ugandan dictator from 1970s Amin, you might get my reference (feet as hands). I'll never get that image out of my head.
Anyway, I reference that as we've been using feet as a proxy to hands. I can't stop thinking now of how odd feet are, even from the perspective of studying the human form. I know humans tend to think of their bodies as the highest form of evolution or divine design. The more I think about the body, the more it's structures and organs seem just so goofy, so laughable, so alien. Maybe this is in contrast to my original concept, maybe this is just part of my process. Whatever it is, I'm going to embrace that feeling for now.
Heres to a hand that could have been a foot
And moreover, here's to trying to define the face I wake up next to every morning. There's something really scary to me about drawing someone I know so well. Here's to trying.
What I did on my summer vacation
Images from the field trip to the bodies exhibit and MIAD. Bodies was interesting but I heard that the bodies were stolen. The dead were (supposedly) prisoners and homeless who had not given their bodies to science, but rather were bought postmortem. It all sounded very late-1800-England, but all-too-familiarly modern.
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/Americas/May-June-08/-Bodies--Exhibit-To-Pay-Refunds-Amid-Controversy.html
Anyways, here's a few sketches from the exhibit, as well as some sketches/photos from MIAD.
Sitzmaschine; Josef Hoffman
Sacral Study from a glass case
Posterior Lateral view from Gluteal fold to Achilles tendon
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