Week Twelve

These quick warm-up sketches show posture and pose. The balance and weight of each that I have captured show that the figure is correctly standing up and not about to fall over. There is also gesture on each, although not very clear as there was not much time to portray it, this is what brings life to the sketches, for example on the bottom one the spine is slightly curved and the head is tilted back a bit.

This 15 minute sketch also displays posture and pose. The model looks sturdy and properly balanced with the weight being placed throughout the left side of the body. Although to improve the posture, the right leg could have been drawn in a more straight line. The gesture throughout this sketch is demonstrated particularly well with the head being slightly bent down onto the hand and if you follow the inner curve of the drawing you can clearly see what the gesture is. This drawing was done with a 2B pencil.

This sketch shows good proportion and weight. The weight can be seen with the arch of the back leading into the taught bottom and also the hands either side of the body. I have shown the muscles well running through the legs, although the muscles in the arm are not quite correct. All together you can see the gesture in this sketch, starting at the head and flowing down the torso and splitting up at each leg. I like the overall composition, and think it is interesting to look at as there are different things going on. I like the pointed toe and how the body isn't directly on the centre of the mat, but on one corner. I like how you can start to see a bit of shading going on, as it makes the picture look more 3 dimensional, seeing where the light and dark areas are on the torso.

Week Eleven

For this sketch I was concentrating on capturing the weight within the pose. The model is leaning onto the table putting all of his weight onto his arms and his right leg. I have shown this by drawing the arms close into the body and straight with slightly raised shoulders. Also by straightening the right leg and bending the left. The head is tilted down and the figure is very streamline showing the tension going through the body as the weight is being placed on only some of it.

In this sketch I tried to represent the tension going through the body, and what the muscles would be doing. The model was slightly leaning forward and with his stomach pushed out and his arms and hands pointing back away from his bottom. I have shown the tension by using angular lines to form the arms and having them look like they are pushing the body out. As the legs are leaning forward you can see the muscles relaxing and on the arms you can see them contracting as they are bending.

This is a 13 minute sketch of the lower part of the leg highlighting where the muscles are. I have used shading to show where the harder and softer parts of the muscles are. You can also see where the harder bits are on the feet, for example, the ball of the foot and it's heel. I have shown how the lower part of the leg has a bigger muscle than the bit around the knee. You can see that the knee is rounded and the leg is slightly bent. The proportions and the angle of the foot are correct although I would have liked to redo the toes, as I struggled over them. The model was fairly slim highlighting his bones more, the curved line near the foot shows the marking of the bone.

Week Ten

This week we were trying to capture movement. Here are several 30 second sketches showing different positions with movement. In a lot of them you can see the rapidness of the movements that were being created and I feel that having some of them overlapping emphasises the movement that was going on. Even though a lot of the lines are wrongly places, you can still see the majority of the positions in which the model made.

This was a 20 minute sketch of the male model sitting down resting his head and his upper weight on his arm. I really struggled with placing the lines especially connecting his head to his body. I feel that the lower half of the sketch went well and you can see the weight that is being placed through his body, starting at the hand and flowing down to the knee and then the feet. The proportion of the overall body is almost correct, although the actual limbs are not.

This was a more successful sketch than the last and shows the model bending down resting on his toes and his hands. I like the movement that I got through this sketch, the way his back is slightly arched leading through to the scrunched up leg and then really being able to notice the pressure and weight put onto the toes. I feel that the placement of the head worked a lot better in this one and you can see that he was looking down at the floor. Adding the shadow to the picture created a nice contrast as there was no shading on the body and helps to create a good composition. This picture took me 10 minutes and I used a 2B pencil.