In this research point we were asked to look into foreshortening, this effect is created by one part of your body, looking huge compared to the rest of your body. This effect is used in art and photography often to create an interesting effect and put a change to normal proportions when it come to bodies.
For research I looked into famous artists which have done pieces that are based on foreshortening, for this research I looked into Hendrick Goltzius, his famous painting ‘Dying Adonis’. Goltzius was a famous German born Dutch artist focusing on printmaking and painting mainly, his work was very popular in the 1500’s. His work carries different techniques one of those being his impressive foreshortening piece and others such as his drawing of his right hand and ‘Lot and his daughters’. Below is the picture I used to get inspiration and did my research off:
This piece is a prime example of foreshortening and the main focus is on the feet, although it is suspected the artist enlarged the feet so it didn’t look so off or non human. I do believe you can see how enlarged the feet look compared to the rest of the body and it creates a good effect for the whole painting.
When taking inspiration from this I wanted to experiment in my drawing with a different part of the body. I thought this would create a different effect and I could experiment with different details to the artist. I liked doing this research I found it fun to see different ways you can present the body. It has made me inspired to do more independent studies on this style of work. I liked how the drawing almost looks 3D with the hand sticking out of the picture. All in all I liked looking into this style and I will use some of the inspiration from the artist I looked into and all the different styles I have seen of this style.
Sophie's OCA Art Work 