Elephant by Rembrandt Van Rijn
.....or anything else, for that matter...old men, angel's playing violin................................
Old Man Venetian School
Angel by Paul Baudry
My point is that you can use the skills you learned in this very basic drawing class for any subject you want. Or with abstract drawings of delicious lines and exquisite hatching.
Little Attic by Wilhelm DeKooning
Again, remember that you need to consider for drawings: edges, spaces(negative and positive), relationships, lights and shadows, =gestalt and expressiveness.
Drawing Lesson 9
1.Look at animal and human profiles assignment, discuss reading. Look at “upside down Courbet” in Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, and trace lightly with pencil the light shapes. Go to page 206 ...squint....and do the same to young Hopper’s face. What is a set of hatching? continuous tone....show how to use a slip sheet for continuous tone.
1. Hand out example of sphere. Read out loud. Have class look at sphere directions...Draw lightly around different sections ...discuss Core Shadow ....then look at detailed sphere diagrram. On a black sphere, color in the medium values with grey conte crayon, leaving the core shadows alone. Then add the highlights with white. Blend with a rolled up corner of t-shirt. Finish shadow at home.
Goyko by Anthony Ryder from his book, Understanding Light and Shadow.
2.Look at drawing of Goyko ...stare and then outline the negative shape in front of the profile.with colored pencil. Hold a vertical on tip of nose...a mini negative shape...then a horizontal under the nose...estimate the angle...at the chin,going down...estimate the angle....compare with my diagram....measure and draw in triangle. Hold up a vertical pencil to inner eye. Where does mouth end. Hold vertical at chin...mark with X where the vertical crosses other points on profile. Now, with colored pencil, draw around the light shapes on Goyko’s profile. Now draw the core shadows (Betty Edwards calls them the “crest” shadows) Again, these are the areas where the crest breaks on a form. Can you isolate and draw around some medium dark values in other parts of the face.?
3. Look again at my diagram of frontal features....check on “askew” factor on Mme Matisse and Madam Cezanne.
Note: Most portraits of wives of painters are spectacularly dour. Note that Cezanne didn't even include a mouth on his wife. No doubt he wanted her to shut up.
I am more sympathetic....it must have been hard to be married to a guy who was always broke and coming home with paint on his shirts. Not to mention the sniffles one would get from posing nude for him in drafty studios.
4. Draw format a little bit larger than Gericault’s painting of a blond boy. Draw around all edges of negative space to “see it” Put only dots at midline....vertical and horizontal. Draw “egg” and try to get placement of head and shoulders by comparison..(remember your negative space)..where is it on each “quarter” of the format...draw central axis down middle of head...watch tilt! Lightly place eyes (watch askew), end of nose, middle of mouth and bottom of ear. Don’t make the neck too thin!
5. On Gericault face now draw with colored pencils around outer edge of all medium dark shadow inclusive of core shadow. Now draw around core shadow. Squint!
6.On your paper format. Try to draw LIGHTLY the shadow shapes....big to small, all medium and dark inclusive, then draw the dark core shadow shapes within the medium shapes. Hatch in all the medium dark and darkest core shadow space with medium hatching...follow the curves if you can. Look at Tony Ryder example, pg. 25. Then cross hatch....building up darker areas as you go...finally the darkest on the core shadow.
Remember, Anthony Ryder's wonderful book on drawing the figure...The Artist's Complete Guide to Figure Drawing, year 2000, Watson Guptil publishers! And also, check out his sites, : www.tonyryder.com and www.theryderstudio.com.
Assignment: Finish sphere and copy of the Tony Ryder drawing at home. If you feel ambitious, do a drawing of Anya's dog Grommet, Ben's Annie or Judy's crow Nevermore. Read from 209 to 224. Be sure to do this....next time is our last class!
You had me at "delicious lines and exquisite hatching"!!! ;)
I love the black sphere exercise.
Posted by: Theresa Cheek | June 29, 2010 at 05:16 AM