Investigate some artists’ self portrait, both well known artists and lesser known artists. Edward Hopper (American painter, 1882-1967) When thinking whom to select, Edward Hopper came to my mind whose self portraits I had seen in the recent Hopper Exhibition, showing him as a young man and again later in his fifties. The later portrait […]
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Research point: Artists’ self portraits
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Self portrait
I feel that I’ve finally got where I wanted to be all the time! Let’s see whether I can make something out of this project. Exercise: Drawing your face The task – Draw several five-minute sketches of your face from different angles to face and head – Draw five more quick sketches focusing on the […]
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Check and log: The moving figure
How well did you manage to create the sense of a fleeting moment rather than a pose? Maybe this is something that worked relatively well in my drawings, as I tend to have a non-perfectionist style and am impatient and prefer less to more. So in a way all my drawings have something unfinished in […]
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Research point: People watching
I had tremendous difficulties with this task. Firstly, I wasn’t able to observe people as intensely as would be required for later drawing them. It would have amounted to staring at them for prolonged times, and I felt this was socially not acceptable. I did not want to make people feel uncomfortable by staring at […]
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The moving figure
This project frightened me because I vividly rememberd how badly I did with the animal drawing project. The moving figure is a real challenge since I have so many difficulties drawing still objects that I don’t know how I might ever succeed in drawing moving objects or people… Drawing moving people is also a problem […]
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Check and log: The clothed figure
Did you find it easy to approach the figure as a whole or were you distracted by details of the sitter’s dress? I think I was at times too focused on details of the folds. But most of the figures work quite well as a whole. Still I think my folds do not really work, […]
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The clothed figure
Exercise: Fabric with line and form This was a funny exercise. Instructions were to throw some fabric across a chair, then make two 15-minute sketches using only line. My cat Gina got crazy when I threw the cloth… she jumped on it while it was moving throughout my attempts to throw decently to get some […]
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Check and log: Structure
How accurately did you depict the overall proportions of the figure? Proportions of standing and lying figure look ok. One of the sitting figures (sketch 2) is also ok, but the first sketch and the worked out drawing of the sitting figure are not accurate for proportion. The upper part of the body is too […]
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Structure
The task – Make three drawings, take 30 to 60 minutes time for each – Positions: Standing, sitting and lying – Observe o Attitude and movement o Centre of gravity, angles of the limbs, perspective foreshortening o Skeleton and muscles – Make very quick sketches and notes in the sketchbook – Make some two minute […]
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Research point: Anatomical drawings
I began this research point by skimming through my drawing book by Gottfried Bammes, “Zeichenschule” (Complete guide to Life Drawing). Gottfried Bammes was a drawing professer at the Dresden National Fine Art Academy. His books have become classics in German academic art education. The book is not exactly an anatomy book, but it presents a […]
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