Exercise over view and research.

Overview of the last two exercises.

The last couple of exercises I did find more difficult, for example realising the different lighting and noticing the different in tones was tricky using natural lighting, I do think it might’ve been easier to do using a lamp yet I made it work with the natural lighting. I haven’t done tasks like this before so I did find it more tricky to do at first because it was all new but I found myself getting more comfortable doing it after the first exercise.

Doing these exercises has opened my eyes to how tone and shadows actually do form onto objects, it has helped with me understanding how light actually does work on objects and it’s not always just a simple one shadow on the side it all differs and I learnt that a lot during these exercises.

All in all I have found the tasks more challenging seen as it was new to me and I haven’t trialed with this type of drawing before yet it has helped me develop on my tones and knowing the light better on my drawings.

Research.

Odilon Redon.

For this research point we were shown this picture:

In this picture you can see the tones he’s used for the lighting throughout the trees, and his dark blocks of sharp tone really stand out and show the definition on the trees. You can see how the artist has used different markings to represent the lighting, for example at the bottom of the tree trunk on the right tree there is dots for where he has used his markings to show a lighter tone to show the lightest bit of the picture. The artist has used different mark makings throughout this drawing to really show the dark and lighter tones, throughout the shadows there is close lines to show the real darkness of the image.

Into my further research I found another picture by Odilon Redon that shows tone and shadow work, this image was called ‘Head of a Martyr on a Dish (St John)’ here is an image of it below:

I chose to use this image because it shows a lot of different mark making to show the dark and lighter tones in the image, in this picture you can really see some good effects the artist has used to show the tone. For example in the dark tons on the head you can see how the artist has used cross hatch how enhance the darkness and show how dark it really is. I found this picture really shows how markings can create an effective and tone filled drawing and how they really do enhance a drawing.

By looking at this artists work I have found a clear understanding as to why it is effective to use markings and to use these techniques in everyday drawings to really show the tones and shadows in the work, even the lighter parts of an image can be marked to show the lightness. I have learnt that markings do make a different and it’s a different technique to just shading but still makes an image just as effective.