This week in Art 2 we learned about how to illustrate the body and it's parts accurately. As someone you has somewhat struggled with proportions in my drawings I thought this was a extremely helpful topic to learn. One of the most helpful techniques I learned was gesture drawing. I had never done this before and it took me a while to get the hang of it but I find that it really helps to accurately established proportions. Normally when I draw, I tackle the body little by little, causing me to measure the length of certain parts of the body differently. What gesture drawing does is allow me to layout a blueprint of the whole body before getting too far in my drawing and adding detail.
The next assignment I did reinforced our knowledge of gesture drawing but introduced construction shape drawing. This technique adds depth and volume to the gesture by using shapes. For this assignment we were to do a gesture image, construction shape image, and a refined rendering with a full range of value. The proportions on this drawing came out perfectly thanks to the gesture and
construction shape phases that was done before the refined form.
The final assignment I want to talk about was to gesture
three sequential poses of one action showing clear weight and anticipation. Successful completion of this assignment meant that you were able to realistically convey weight and anticipation on paper. I personally think I nailed this assignment.
Overall, I got a lot out of this week's lesson. I intend to keep using what I learned from this week, onward to continue to improve upon my human anatomy.
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