Exercise 2 – Essential Elements

For this exercise we were asked to draw six different poses, to adjust the lighting so it hits one side of the model and show the three dimensional form of the body. Don’t spend more than 10 mins on one pose and to remember basic shapes and shade in the darkest tones of the body. We were told to build up the tones and use hatching and broad sweeps and leave the paper light on the lighter tones. Draw the full figure and don’t concern on the detail of the model.

For this I decided to use graphite, I felt like it was a good idea to broaden my media and look into sketching with different medias to get out of my comfort zone, using this material was different it seemed to be easier to make darker tones and was soft to draw with. Below is a picture of my results:

Doing this exercise was enjoyable, I liked focusing on the different poses and making sure I got the right angles throughout the and looking that the proportions are right to make sure the figure doesn’t look alien. I think I did well in this exercise for getting the right bends and angles on the model. I believe I did well with proportion swell as showing weight and three dimensional form, it was quite hard to show darker tones without making the proportions look off but I think I was able to show a balance between the two. Personally I think the first two of my sketches show the best sense of pose because I feel they were both complex poses to draw. I feel I did well at the poses and got the proportions right on these two sketches, they seem to have more three dimension and I did well with the tones throughout both of these sketches. Doing these drawings there wasn’t any movement really, it was more tricky to draw quickly and be confident with my markings, some of the poses my model did were tricky for them to stay in that position yet I think I did well to capture those poses as quick as I could just to get the basic shapes in, I think I captured this in my sketches.

All in all I enjoyed this exercise, I think I liked using a different media and getting out of my comfort zone and I am going to experiment more with this media in further exercises as well as independent studies. I feel that I need to improve on my harsh lines and not be so heavy on my outer lines. I want to improve on using lighter tones and just not shading the lightest tones at all.