Final Pieces

Final Still Life

Final Landscape

Final Life Drawing

Colour Landscapes

Due to being colourblind, this image has been done in black and white in order to show correct contrast.

Firstly is the use of Rule of Thirds within the composition, Tree, Foreground bush, and Background bush.
Interesting strokes with chalk and charcoal made up where leaves should be. different shades lead from the shades.

Lacking detail, with mostly form taking place via outlined blocks, the only detail is within the smudged highlights and shadows.

Modern Architecture

What we have here is a picture of Modern Architecture. Slightly unusual is the wide angle. this allows for an almost fish eye perspective. As a practice, the idea is sound with good proportions between the buildings. Multilayered design is well in effect, with the building in the foreground, the road occupying the midground and the skyscape lining up the background.

Ultimately, the Composition is well defined, with the windows in the foreground sitting in the Rule of Thirds.
However, detail has been skimped itself here, with form taking president and unrefined lines causing mess over the page.

Classic Architecture

The biggest problem here is page composition. the size of the image was created too large, afterwhich the next problem is the multiple starting points. leading to two images becoming squashed.

However, the archway has much detail placed into a small area, showing proportions well formed out, if not very large. By comparison, the perspective lines on the tower are skewed, requiring a proper horizon line and page planning to be effective.

Non Human Atanomy

Drawn from a Taxidermy. Particular detail was placed in studying the facial markings, as detail is previous failings. Too much detail concentration leading to a lack of completion means this drawing is incomplete however.

With regard to form, the right leg has many odd angles that confuse the actual shape, possible fix would be to use shading to highlight form. The Left leg shows detail within the bicep and forearm muscles, with a well defined paw.

Weight and Dynamics

In order to show weight, muscles and form must appear to be tensed. The positioning of legs and arms shows this well.

Proportions are off however, especially in the neck, arms and rear legs.

Movement

In this image, there are three pictures over each other. Each pose drawn in a short amount of time close to each other. The impressions of the figure are well defined, going for form rather than detail. Vertical proportions seem well eyed, although detail with the thickness of body parts would benefit from work.

the Centre figure has the least definition, which detracts from clarity of the pose. this is in comparison to the two other figures, who can be seen quite clearly.

Atonomy

The picture drawn here shows a fully figured person, with weight on the pose. Head apears thought out and weight seems to be placed on the left hand.

However, the picture is ultimately unfinished, as an entire leg is missing, the form of the hips is unclear and proportion between Torso and Abdomen is completely wrong.

The Arms appear reasonable, although the left elbow requires more definition in order to stop it appearing as  if made from rubber

Foreshortening

This life drawing shows three different postures of a man miming the use of a punt. Outline emphasis and use of charcoal  mean the silhouette is the most pronounced part of this image. This is useful to show foreshortening however, as the shoulders stay level even while the figure becomes larger on the page.

Use of shadow on the person is evident although shadow on the ground is not.

The first problem is that page planning has been misjudged, with two of the pictures cutting off the top of the figures head. The more pronounced outline mean that the muscles are more defined, although some of the legs appear to have had corrections that lead to confusion of the detail. A couple of planning lines appear to have been drawn, but not used.

Composition

This artwork shows an understanding of directional composition, with the head correctly in proportion with the hips and down to the legs. There is also a good emphasis on shading, that gives the piece a nice, more finished look.

The Lines are more refined than previous work, but could still do with cleaning up, including less emphasis on planning lines. A mistake with the right leg is clearly visible and makes it unsure which on of the legs was the correct one.

Theory of Light and Shade

The context of this image is that a skeleton model was set up in front of a spotlight, with it's shadow cast up and onto the wall behind it.

The use of planning lines becomes evident, and well used in the shoulders, where one shoulder is pushed behind from the angle of projection.

Once again, messy lines impact onto this picture, especially in the spine, where the shoulder blade just appears as a weird notch in the backbone. The lower end of the picture appears to be wider than the rest, but unsupported by foreshortening, and so appeared simply as a bad perspective.

Mass & Form

With use of relative objects, the difference between the large objects at the back and the smaller objects at the back is reasonably clear. While the entire piece shows many complex objects, none of them have become orphaned, kissing or containing negative spaces.

Unfortunately, this piece also has wonky refinement, with some objects looking like they have been shifted or made incorrectly. The composition works, but lacks any form of lighting or shadow that could be used for detail.

Planning

This piece is an example of how using basic primitives can be adjusted to create compositional fidelity. The Original pose appears complex and yet, via the use of planning and basic shapes the pose has been broken down into a simple structure before being constructed over with detail.

The downfall of this image is that all the lines within the detail appear to be hurried and messy. With a confusing amount of random lines within the torso, the drawing could benefit from an increased amount of observation into detail.